Health & Rehab
Recover with the Best Therapy and Skilled Nursing Care
At Friendship Health, we want to be your partner in helping you regain your health and well-being, whether that means recovering from surgery, tending to an injury, relearning skills or offering long-term support.
Long-Term Care
24-hour Skilled Nursing and Support
When you or your loved one is unable to return to a prior level of function, Friendship Health’s 24-hour skilled nursing and support care offer an uplifting environment that promotes wellness, physical, and social activity. Our vision for better health goes beyond equipment and technology.
We enhance our residents’ quality of life with uncompromising care recognized as among the finest in the area from our highly trained and friendly staff. We believe our warm smiles should boost your spirit as our medical care restores your body. This lets us devote each day to helping you live better.
Skilled Nursing & Inpatient Rehab
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When your recovery requires you to stay on our campus, we make your rehabilitation our priority. Staffed by our award-winning therapists and nurses, Friendship Health is devoted to creating an environment that enhances quality of life, promotes independence, inspires hope, and helps make faster recoveries. Here are some of our most popular services.
- Physical Therapy
- Speech/Language Pathology
- Occupational Therapy
- Specialized Orthopedic Care
- Specialized Cardiac Care
- Specialized Neuro-Muscular Care
- Lymphedema Therapy
Alzheimer's & Memory Care
Alzheimer’s disease affects more than just the patient. Because this ailment impacts the lives of every family member, Alzheimer’s requires a uniquely flexible care plan. This is why Friendship Health created a dedicated team trained in the special needs of Alzheimer’s residents. We designed our memory care program with the safety, security, and support of our residents in mind, giving peace of mind to their families. In addition, you can adapt each care plan to meet the specific needs of the resident.
Programs are continuously being introduced for our residents based on the latest research related to dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. An example is our Wander Garden, which provides residents a sense of independence and an opportunity for physical exercise and mental stimulation. This landscaped outdoor patio offers lush walkways and a sunlit gazebo, allowing residents to get some exercise and reduce their stress and anxiety in a fenced-in, secure area. We also have a secured memory care patio, where residents can safely and independently step outside to enjoy sunshine (as well as shade) and take in the beautiful mountain views.
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Respite Care
Caring for a loved one is a rewarding experience, but it can also be demanding. Respite care at Friendship offers you, the caregiver, a well-deserved break while ensuring your loved one receives exceptional care in a warm and inviting environment.
Respite care offers you and your loved one:
- Peace of mind: Relax knowing your loved one is in good hands, receiving assistance with daily activities and enjoying social interaction.
- Renewed energy: Take a break from caregiving to recharge and return feeling refreshed and ready to provide the best possible care.
- Trial experience: Considering senior living for your loved one? Respite care allows them to experience our community firsthand.
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When your recovery requires you to stay on our campus, we make your rehabilitation our priority.
Staffed by our award-winning therapists and nurses, Friendship Health is devoted to creating an environment that enhances quality of life, promotes independence, inspires hope, and helps make faster recoveries. Here are some of our most popular services.
Physical Therapy:
Restores function for individuals who have experienced neuromuscular or skeletal dysfunction. Our physical therapy programs can:
- Improve strength, balance, muscle function, and range of motion
- Collaborate with your orthopedist on your therapy program before and after joint replacement surgery
- Train for mobility, gait, stability, posture, and positioning, including methods for fall prevention
- Aquatic rehab in our warm-water therapy pool with less impact on joints, beneficial for arthritis
- Wellness education and home exercise programs
Speech/ Language Pathology:
Addresses difficulties with communication, swallowing, and cognitive decline. Our speech/language therapies include:
- Improve swallowing to decrease choking risk
- Verbal and nonverbal communication skills including stroke rehab
- Hearing screenings
- Dementia Level Staging
- VitalStim™ therapy to improve swallow function
- Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) Loud®
- Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation and Swallowing (FEES)
Occupational Therapy:
Restores and maintains the functionality of daily living, independence, and safety. Our occupational therapy programs offer:
- Education and training in bathing, grooming, dressing, and meal preparation
- Adaptive techniques for continued independence in your home
- Energy conservation/ work simplification techniques
- Strengthening and coordination exercises
- Hand therapy and exercises to reduce the effects of arthritis or other joint conditions related to joint movement
- Home modification assessments
Specialized Orthopedic Care:
Rehab for joint replacement, post-fracture, post-surgical/trauma, arthritis, sprain/strains, and degenerative joint disease. We also bring a smooth transition from pre-surgical admissions process to a custom rehabilitation program to ultimately get you back to living your life.
Specialized Cardiac Care:
After a heart attack, cardiac surgery, illness, or other cardiac-related condition our individualized programs, our team of physiatrists and full-time physical, occupational, and speech therapists will develop goals for you to achieve the best possible outcome.
Specialized Neuro-Muscular Care:
For those affected by neuro-muscular disorders, such as stroke/ cerebrovascular accident (CVA), transient ischemic attacks (TIA’s), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Guillain-Barre Syndrome, or Parkinson’s Disease. We provide comprehensive therapy designed to restore maximum functional performance and overall well-being.
Lymphedema Therapy
Lymphedema can be best described as chronic swelling or edema. This swelling may occur when lymph (excess fluid, proteins, and other substances) increases in body tissues. This can happen anywhere in the body but especially occurs in the legs, arms, neck, and abdomen. Lymphedema occurs when the normal drainage of fluid is disrupted by a blockage or removal of the lymph nodes, which are responsible for collecting and carrying the lymph back to the bloodstream.
Lymphedema impacts 10 million American. A Certified Lymphedema Therapist (CLT) possesses a broad knowledge of the lymphatic system and can safely work with patients to best manage individual lymphedema needs. At Friendship, our CLT’s offer comprehensive and individualized programs including:
- A specialized manual massage technique called complete decongestive therapy, which allows for the fluid to be manually pumped out of the body
- Individualized sizing and use of a multilayered compression garment, pump or wraps to maintain the decongested limb
- Education regarding an appropriate exercise program and diet recommendations to facilitate the elimination of waste from the body
- Maintenance of range of motion and function of the affected limb and involved joints
- Instruction on appropriate skin hygiene to involved areas to decrease risk of complications
- A home maintenance program to manage the area independently upon completion of rehab services