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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.

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.

Hip replacement surgery helps relieve chronic pain, restore mobility, and improve quality of life. However, the life-transforming journey doesn’t end in the operating room. A structured hip replacement rehab program is key to speeding up recovery and helping you regain strength and mobility while preventing complications.  

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.

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.

The healthcare landscape has been changing in recent years in response to new demands from patients and payers. Short term rehab facilities are certainly no exception to that rule. In fact, many of them have positioned themselves on the cutting edge of those changes, setting trends that other sectors of the healthcare industry are beginning to follow.

Here are 3 of the more prominent trends in short term rehab today:

At Rehab Select, we are driven to help our patients receive the highest quality care that will aid in a quick recovery. Beyond simply providing a rehabilitation facility, we hope that our patients will truly feel at home and cared for during a short term rehab stay.

Transitioning home after a stay in a short term rehab facility can be a difficult. Recovery from a serious illness, injury, surgery or stroke can be a long process, and the thought of going back home before you feel confident about fully managing on your own can be intimidating. Here are some tips on how to make that transition a smoother and less stressful experience.