Our therapy team is very proud of the successes that our resident’s have made during their stay here at Emerald Gardens. It is important to us that we highlight these successes because they help the resident truly understand how much functional Independence they have achieved from their date of admission to their date of discharge. We also like to share these success stories with the resident’s physician(s) and hospital discharge planner(s). This allows for a 360 degree approach to the care of our residents by providing the follow through, after discharge, to the original care providers.

Our Homeward Bound program is focused on providing services to ensure that the patient safely transitions to a lower level of care. We have a facility van that is utilized for community re-entry activities. Our therapists are able to take the patient into realistic everyday activities that test them on challenges and obstacles that they may face once they are discharged and provide guidance, suggestions, and recommendations that are relevant to their individual situations.

Our Therapy Department is managed by an onsite Facility Rehab Director who coordinates the skilled services in Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy.

Our primary goal is always to improve the resident's function to the highest level of independence possible. We have state of the art modalities that are the same utilized by many professional and college sports teams. We believe that our residents deserve the same million dollar quality of care that million dollar athletes receive.

Two major concerns of the elderly population are incontinence and falls. Our therapy department is one of the few in the area that has a continence improvement and a fall prevention program to address these needs.

Some of our other invaluable programs and services include:

• Wound Care
• Diabetes Management Program
• Pain Management
• Cardio-Pulmonary Rehabilitation
• Seating and Positioning
• Cognitive Specialty Program
• Contracture Management
• Walk-to-Dine Program
• Dysphagia Management
• Community Re-integration
• Home Evaluation Assessment
• Caregiver/Family Training
• Orthopedic & Fracture Recovery Program
• Stroke Rehabilitation
• Neorological Deficit Management
• Omnicycle

Emerald Gardens partners with Accelerated Care Plus (ACP) to provide continued education for our therapists on the most advanced therapeutic programs and equipment available. Our newest pieces of equipment are our two Omnicycles. The Omnicycle is an advanced therapy cycle that accomodates post-acute patients that would not normally be able to participate in therapeutic exercise. It has revolutionized the therapeutic process.

We offer our resident’s every opportunity to be able to return home safely and at their highest functional level. We have established a transitional living unit (TLU) to simulate, as closely as possible, the resident’s upcoming home situation. Once a resident has been identified as an appropriate candidate for the TLU, the therapy team determines the functional tasks that the resident will be performing based on the requirements necessary for a safe discharge to a lower level of care. If the resident is successful in the TLU, the interdisciplinary team may confidently suggest a discharge home, knowing that they have done everything they can do to assure this resident’s safety. If however, it is determined that the resident needs further assistance in any of the areas required upon discharging home, the team will recommend that the resident remain in the facility a little longer and the focus of treatment will be specific to those areas.

Here at Emerald Gardens Nursing Center therapy department our residents’ wellness and security are of paramount importance. Our therapy team has over 100 years of combined experience in long-term care, with an average of 7 years at Emerald Gardens. Our department has been recognized by our company with an Innovation Award for our OT Cooking Group in 2007 and two Operational Excellence Awards, 1 in 2007 and one in 2010. We have the experience and the knowledge to provide the best possible positive outcomes for our residents at Emerald Gardens.