Inpatient Rehabilitation
Sometimes life places obstacles in our path that we need help to overcome. Stroke, serious injury, bone fracture and the onset of disease are life-altering events that can affect mobility, memory and other cognitive function. Worst of all, they can mean the loss of independence.
The Regional Rehabilitation Center at Lewis-Gale Medical Center helps adult patients triumph over personal challenges, restoring their productivity, self-reliance, and quality of life. Our inpatient rehabilitation program is goal oriented and family focused. And because our services are hospital based, our patients enjoy an impressive rate of successful outcomes.
What Makes Us Different
• A case manager is assigned to each patient to guide the patient and family through every step of the rehabilitation process.
• All of our rehabilitation therapists are fully licensed. |
Established in 1985, we’re the largest inpatient rehab program in western Virginia, treating more than 800 patients annually.
At the heart of our center is a dedicated, enthusiastic staff of specially trained professionals. Physiatrists (physicians who are specialists in physical medicine and rehabilitation), rehab nurses, physical and occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, case managers, a therapeutic recreation specialist, neuropsychologists and numerous other healthcare professionals comprise our team.
Because we provide intensive therapy on a daily basis, including weekends, our patients receive nearly twice as many hours of therapy per week as patients in a skilled nursing facility. This level of therapy means that our patients realize improvements more quickly and return home sooner.
Most importantly for patients, our rehab center is hospital based.
Hospital-based Rehabilitation: Simply Better For Patients
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Patients stay at the Lewis-Gale Regional Rehabilitation Center for an average of 12 days. Eighty percent of them return directly home.
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Our spacious, well-equipped rehab unit is located on the fourth floor of Lewis-Gale Medical Center.
Rehab services that are housed within an accredited, acute-care hospital offer many advantages for patients:
• Recovery occurs faster than in a
non-hospital environment
• Immediate physician care is available
around the clock
• If a sudden change in condition occurs,
a complete array of medical services
is instantly accessible.
“Patients who participate in hospital-based rehab programs not only experience improved outcomes but quicker healing and recovery times. A study in the Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation suggests that orthopedic patients who receive comprehensive, hospital-based rehab therapy are more likely to be discharged to home rather than to an interim care facility.”
-- Dave Thompson, Administrative Director of Rehab Services, Lewis-Gale Regional Rehabilitation Center
Our Scope of Care
Lewis-Gale Rehabilitation Center offers the major disciplines of rehab:
Easy Street
Speech/Language Therapy |
Physical Therapy focuses on the restoration of physical strength, endurance, coordination and range of motion. In our unique model called “Easy Street,” patients receive therapy in areas that simulate real-world environments such as a grocery store, a bank, streets and sidewalks, and even an automobile.
Occupational Therapy uses the activities of everyday living to promote maximum functioning at home and in the workplace.
Speech/Language Therapy includes the techniques and strategies to evaluate and treat communication and cognitive disorders.
Therapeutic Recreation incorporates current, and develops new, skills and interests to increase physical, cognitive, emotional and social functions.
Dedicated to Quality and Safety
Lewis-Gale Medical Center is committed to improving patient safety and quality of care. We’re accredited by The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), the nation's leading standards-setting and accrediting health care body. We voluntarily participate in the Hospital Quality Alliance, an American Hospital Association initiative that reports hospital quality-of-care data to the public. We also submit performance measures for publication to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS).
Because we’re part of HCA, the nation’s largest healthcare provider, we have access to leading-edge initiatives and technology. We were one of the first hospitals in the country to implement an electronic scanning process that virtually eliminates medication errors, the most common type of in-hospital injury to patients.
Admission Criteria
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Rehab Nursing
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For admission to Lewis-Gale Regional Rehabilitation Center, patients must be evaluated by a physiatrist and demonstrate that they are:
- medically stable
- require a minimum of two services
- can withstand intensive therapy
- possess reasonable potential to significantly improve functional level
- are motivated to participate in therapies
- have the potential to return home or to a home-like environment.
The Road to Recovery
Upon discharge, Lewis-Gale Medical Center provides a full range
of outpatient rehabilitation services:
- Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy
- Day Rehabilitation
- Aquatic Therapy
- Sports Medicine
- Pulmonary Therapy
- Lymphedema Therapy.
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Our Patients Tell The Story Best |
Our patients have consistently rated us as "good" to "excellent" on 95 percent or better of our patient satisfaction surveys.
"The therapy department was wonderful. They prepared me for everything I was physically able to do when I returned home. They worked me to my full potential, therefore making my transition home great."
"The hospital is so people-oriented it is amazing. The rehab staff and therapists are the finest I have ever seen. The care was beyond exemplary. If one can enjoy being in such circumstances—we did." |
Lewis-Gale Regional Rehabilitation Center
1900 Electric Road
Salem, Virginia 24153
540.776.4463
540.776.4455 fax
Inpatient Rehabilitation Admissions
540.776.4453
540.776.4455 fax
Centers for Outpatient Rehabilitation Services
Lewis-Gale Pavilion
1902 Braeburn Drive
Salem, Virginia 24153
540.772.2816
540.772.2894 fax
Peters Creek
6701 Peters Creek Road
Suite 105
Roanoke, Virginia 24019
540.563.8462
540.563.0126 fax
Salem Family YMCA
1126 Kime Lane
Salem, Virginia 24153
540.527.6787
540.527.6791 fax
For 24/7 free physician referral, health information, or consultation with a registered nurse, call Consult-A-Nurse toll free at 1-877-2HCA DOCS (1-877-242-2362)
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