Your Rehabilitation Team

Physiatrist: a physician who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

Intake Coordinator: a rehabilitation nurse trained to assess the individual's potential before he or she enters the rehabilitation program, to guide you through the program and to monitor/assist after discharge.

Physical Therapist: concentrates re-education techniques on the neuromuscular system, developing and strengthening motor and functional skills, improving joint mobility and relieving pain.

Occupational Therapist: applies skills to enhance the patient's perceptual and fine motor abilities and to maximize independence in activities of daily living.

Speech/Language Pathologist: maximizes the patient's ability to communicate, understand spoken language, increase cognitive skills and return to safe feeding.

Therapeutic Recreational Specialist: assists patients in overcoming physical barriers relative to recreational activities, facilitating the transition to a social environment.

Rehabilitative Nurse: a Registered Nurse with specialized training or experience in rehabilitation.

Rehabilitation Technician: CNA/PCT's specially trained to assists our patients follow through in their training (helps) with activities of daily living and some exercises under the direct supervision of nurses and therapists.

Case Manager: Responsible for planning, organizing, coordinating and monitoring the services and resources needed to respond to client's healthcare needs and reimbursement constraints, promoting continuity of care through the rehabilitation care continuum.

Psychologist: assists patients and family members in adjusting to the disability and in working through the strong emotions that normally accompany the rehabilitation process.

Dietitian: provides the nutritional information and guidance important to each patient's rehabilitation

Other Rehabilitation Specialists: these include physicians in the fields of neurology, orthopedics and general medicine.