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SIRH News Release
MEDIA ADVISORY
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 7, 2007
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CONTACT:
Barbara Mackovic
(502) 587-4230 |
Progressive Care
Unit Opens
Southern Indiana Rehab
Hospital (SIRH) is now accepting patients into the Kathryn M. Raines
Progressive Care Unit. The unit provides short term sub-acute
rehabilitation services for patients who do not meet acute
rehabilitation admission requirements.
The Progressive Care Unit will offer physical, occupational and
speech therapies seven days-a-week to assist patients in regaining
strength and skills needed to live as independently as possible. The
22-bed unit provides a smaller, patient centered atmosphere
promoting the highest level of mobility and function.
SIRH currently offers acute rehab to patients and has extended its
services to patients needing a shorter rehab sequence. Patients in
the Progressive Care Unit will typically be at SIRH for one to three
weeks and receive 12 hours of rehab per week where as an acute rehab
patient would receive 21 hours. The types of patients on this unit
will have diagnoses such as hip replacements, knee replacements,
mild strokes, pneumonia and general weakness.
We now have the opportunity to accommodate those patients that
would normally be discharged from a hospital and go back home
without the much needed rehab care to get them back into daily
living activities, said Randy Napier, president of SIRH. Some
people arent ready to go home and we now have a unit geared
directly towards these people.
The Progressive Care Unit is named in honor of the late Kathryn M.
Raines. Ms. Raines was a board member for many years at SIRH. She
was also a member of many other organizations in southern Indiana
and was the founding member of the American Red Cross Blood Donor
Program, Lifeline Home Emergency Response System and Reach to
Recovery Program for Breast Cancer.
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