We at Downey Care Center have discharged an incredible number of residents back into our community as a result of our progressive therapy programs. We practice an interdisciplinary TEAM approach. The TEAM consists of nursing, therapy, your doctor and the resident.

Our Therapy Department is managed by an onsite Facility Rehab Director, Paul Baloy, OTR/L, who has coordinated skilled services in Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy at Downey Care Center since 2004. This team of licensed therapists, assistants, and aides join together to offer the best of quality therapeutic services. Our common goal is to work with the resident and the family to ensure a smooth transition to the home, residential care or long term care environment.

Special attention is paid to achieving an optimal outcome by establishing individualized treatment plans for each resident. Our overall focus is to promote each resident's quality of life and assist them in achieving their highest level of independence and safety.
It is always a joyous event for our facility to see a resident going home from therapy, being able to attend to herself or himself, or just being able to walk alone, or with minimum assistance.

Our Physical Therapy team provides an individualized program focused on increasing range of motion, improving body strengths, endurance, transfer skills, balance, and ambulation levels in an effort to optimize safe mobility skills. The therapist has the equipment and modalities available to effectively meet the full scope of the resident's needs.

Our Occupational Therapy team of therapists and assistants focus on the resident's ability to manage everyday living skills. Programs are individually developed to maximize the level of independence in eating, dressing, toileting, bathing, and home and community skills. Special attention is paid to the resident's safety and to care giving training, insuring an effective transition to home.

Our Speech Therapist assists residents in overcoming problems with speech, hearing, comprehension, expression and swallowing. They evaluate, plan and conduct treatment for all speech deficits, voice problems and cognitive impairments. Special communication systems are often established to ensure the resident can make his or her needs know.

We offer a Specialty Rehabilitation Program focused on the resident's work of breathing, work of heart, lung health and association of heat/lung function (cardiopulmonary endurance) during physical exercise or mobility/ambulation. Our specialty trained staff of Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy use these methods and modalities to greatly improve the resident's overall therapy outcomes.

In a recent study at the facility, 60.2% of our residents who completed their course of therapy were discharged home or to a lower level of care. Additionally, our therapists provide training for the family or caretaker prior to a resident’s discharge to home. Our facility employs an excellent therapy team made up of Physical, Speech and Occupational Therapists. By combining a compassionate approach with state of the art therapy, our highly trained staff helps to maximize every resident’s potential and quality of life. We support and conduct an aggressive Rehabilitation Program that is medically effective and paced to meet the needs of each resident.