Ascension Via Christi Rehabilitation Hospital

This is set up like a nursing home, but the rehab is for different people, different things. I noticed on the South end is weight management. Check in here to learn how to walk, exercise, remotivate mind and body.Nursing staff is friendly, helpful and accommodating. I really love me the TV set on the arm that extends to watch from any angle to close to your face if you like.Hubby and I walked by a little theatre. Wow! They can go to a central area to eat or eat in their room. It's a nice, clean, well kept facility.

Have had a. GREAT EVXPERIENCE, after a small. Stroke . Lost the ability to walk. Have me ready to be back out after 10 days. 3- 3 1/2 hrs intense Thherapy/day. other facilities only offered. 1 hr. All staff is great, and Caring . Would Highly RECOMMEND!

Via Christi Rehab Center at 1151 N Rock Road is where I learned to walk, talk and function again after my brain bleed stroke almost a year ago disabled my right leg and arm, and affected my speech. I knew what I wanted to say but just was not able to put sentences together. They put me in a room and the Rehab team came to my room and told me that they would be the ones rehabbing me. It would be PT, OT, and Speech therapist. They gave me a schedule to follow each day. I was fitted for a wheelchair, and tray for my disabled arm to rest on. Two nurses would come in at 5:30am to take vital signs, dress me and get me up for breakfast. Wheel me down to breakfast. I was unable to communicate so a nurse came to help me butter my toast, open my milk, put a breakfast bib on me. What a first experience that was. Nurses were very attentive to my every needs. My first hour was with Kim the lead PT. She took me down and put me on a 6x8 mat table to try and rehab my Leg, with exercise and trying to get the muscle back. She even got Terry a PTA to assist in taking me up and down the long hallway. They would stand me up, while Terry held me up, Kim went along on a rolling stool to assist me using my right, physically putting it forward each time I went forward. First time we went a short way. Then we went to the LocoMat a machine that utilizes a treadmill and a suspension harness for unweighting. After hooking (trussing me up) in a upper torso harness to suspend me over the treadmill, they strapped my legs into the robotic portion of the machine to make my legs move like I was walking, and lowered me down to the treadmill. It was pretty intense, looking in the mirror and watching my disabled leg moving and not be able to get it to work under my own power. Lookiing into a full length mirror and watching me do this was pretty weird. Needless to say my first experience was pretty scary, but the therapists were right there with any indication of discomfort, pain or anything they responded right away. Went to OT so they could work on my right arm. Doing some exercises to strength my muscles and retrain the nerves in my arm. To even lift or move my hand was futile, for that week. Then was off to speech. She gave me some flash cards that had various people on them for me to describe. She had me write ( Ha, scribble my name and address on a piece of paper with my left hand. Wow was that an eye opener. When I would go back to my room to rest, I would try to do the exercises that I was trying to do with the therapists in bed. Eventually, the second week I was getting some movement in my hand and some in my leg. They kept me for 4 weeks, and intensified my rehab the last week that I was there. Wheelchair, to Walker, to a cane. I walk without a limp, write, move my right arm naturally (still some weakness in some movements) and talk normally. I owe it all to the fantastic rehab team of Via Christi Rehab center. Kim, Terry, Jerri, Speech therapist, nurses, and the whole facility. I would recommend them anytime you have a stroke or mobility problems.