Modern-Day Tech Outcomes for Rehab Patients
Jacqueline Turenne, PT, WCC, RAC-CT, OHCC
Rehabilitation in a skilled nursing facility can encompass many modalities, activities, and come in all shapes and sizes in order to drive the highest outcomes for patients and residents.
Patients and residents alike enter rehabilitation in a skilled nursing center looking to maximize their functional potential and return back to their homes as vibrant members of their community. Today, the population we serve is of a younger generation and more familiar with video games and virtual reality activities than the generation before. Because of this, in addition to traditional physical and occupational therapy, many skilled nursing facilities offer the use of modern simulation technology. The simulation technology is designed to speed up the recovery of patients and drive great outcomes, which is to get better and return home.
Jintronix is one of today’s proven exciting simulation technology. It is a modality used in various rehabilitation centers at skilled nursing facilities. At Beth Abraham Center in the New York City borough of the Bronx, this technology acts as a bridge to connect to the patients and residents, turning rehabilitation therapy into something fun rather than work. Simulation technology helps to foster patient participation, increase motivation, and assess functional outcomes to achieve these goals.
As seen in Medical Tech Outlook
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Centers Health Care provides rehabilitation, skilled nursing and long-term care for people with a wide range of needs. Whether someone is recovering from surgery, managing an illness or simply needs more support than can be provided at home, our staff is there to help.
The goal is not exactly the same for everyone. It may be returning home, becoming stronger, staying independent or simply feeling better and more comfortable from one day to the next. There will be progress, setbacks and difficult days along the way. Our job is to be there through all of it, and to help each patient or resident get as far as he or she can.
Sometimes that progress comes in large steps. More often, it comes in small ones. Either way, every step matters.
Our Steps to Home series follows patients through rehabilitation and the journey from hospital to home:
