Health & Rehab
A New Kind of Rehab Experience
Regain strength, manage pain, and reclaim your life. Our personalized health and rehab programs help you reach your goals, feel better, and get back to doing what you love.
Short-term stays at our in-patient rehab
Rehab South was designed from the ground up to showcase the best services and innovations for patient care. Staffed by our award-winning therapists and nurses, we are devoted to creating an environment of enhancing quality of life, promoting independence, inspiring hope, and helping make faster recoveries. The goal is to make your rehabilitation as comfortable and seamless as possible.
Each guest at Rehab South will have their own private room during their stay. The facility also features several protected, outdoor courtyards with family seating and fireplaces. Adjacent to the courtyards, there are two dining rooms where guests may enjoy meals prepared from scratch, eliminating heavy use of frozen preservative-rich and pre-processed food.
There is also a suite for activities of daily living to help people regain the day-to-day skills they may have lost. In the three-room suite (bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen), patients will be able to relearn skills for bathing and meal preparation. Barn-type sliding doors have replaced the conventional, wide-swinging doors in patient rooms.
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Therapy Gym
In the therapy gym, patients will find the latest innovations to expedite their recovery. A heated, aquatic therapy pool with water temperature kept at a constant 92 degrees allows for warmer muscles that will stretch more easily and respond better to therapy sessions. The pool includes an underwater treadmill that dramatically reduces the pull of gravity during exercise. Outside of the gym in our therapy courtyard we have graded and textured walking surfaces to relearn how to walk on a variety of surfaces
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 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.
In addition to around-the-clock skilled nursing and personal care, residents enjoy a personalized experience with stimulating social, recreational activities, dining services, comfortable accommodations, and full amenities—all in a comfortable home-like setting.
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Keeping you Active and Engaged
We believe each day presents the opportunity for enrichment, joy, and laughter. Our activities team programs activities to keep you active and engaged. Each week is filled with exercise classes, games, clubs, movies, arts and crafts, live music, and more!
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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