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When recovering from an accident, illness, or surgery, short-term rehabilitation can provide the appropriate support to help you shorten your recovery timeline, regain independence, and resume your normal activities. Reputable short-term rehab facilities offer the expertise and equipment you need along this journey. 

What should you look for to ensure your short-term rehabilitation program will help you achieve successful outcomes? Let’s review the four characteristics of top short-term rehab facilities. 

If you're recovering from an illness, surgery, or accident, your healthcare provider may recommend short-term rehab services to help you regain independence and facilitate the transition back home. 

Let’s review what short-term rehab services entail and what you may expect from your stay at a short-term rehab facility.

Respiratory care is a specialized area of the healthcare field that primarily treats people who have been diagnosed with diseases and health conditions that affect the heart and lungs. Patients are typically referred to respiratory care to address breathing problems caused by these diseases and conditions.

If your healthcare team has recommended respiratory therapy for you, knowing what to expect from this form of treatment is important so you can make the most of the benefits it can offer to help you better manage your health issues.

At all of our Rehab Select facilities, we work to provide the best possible experience for all patients through providing the resources and staff needed to assist with a thorough and efficient recovery.

We love hearing from patients as well as their families about their experiences at our facilities.

If you've had hip replacement surgery or are planning a procedure, knowing what to expect as you recover and rehabilitate after surgery is important. After all, these are major surgeries, and recovery is not an easy process. Having realistic expectations as you work through that process can prevent you from getting discouraged or frustrated along the way, which can be an impediment to making your best recovery. One of the more important things to know going in is just how long that process will take, so here, we’ll look into how long you can expect short term rehab to take after hip replacement surgery.

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, you should know that short term rehabilitation can help. The treatment and therapy offered by a good short term rehab program can be very helpful in the management of some of the symptoms and problems that go along with this degenerative neurological disease, helping patients prolong independence and improve quality of life.

If your medical team has recommended short term rehab for you, chances are that you have questions about this type of care, especially if this will be your first experience with rehab. Perhaps the most common question people have is what they can expect a rehab program to to do for them. To help you answer this question, we’ll go over 3 goals of short term rehab.

An accident that causes significant, debilitating injuries can really throw your life into a sudden, unexpected sort of chaos. If this has happened to you, chances are that short term rehab is a recovery option that has been suggested by your medical team to help you regain function and independence lost to your injuries. So just how can short term rehab aid accident recovery? Here we’ll outline important ways a stay in a good short term rehab program can help.

So you’ve just had surgery or you’re planning to, and your healthcare team has recommended short term rehab to ease your path as you’re recovering from surgery. What is short term rehab and what do you need to know to make the most of the experience? These programs are designed to give you the comprehensive therapy, treatment and support you need to make your best recovery, regaining your personal best level of health, function and independence as quickly as possible.

We recently shared a kind response we received from one of our patients at our Hillview facility. It’s always great to hear from patients who have enjoyed their stay and not only recovered in a safe and comfortable environment, but also know that they can trust our staff for all of their needs throughout the recovery process.