Acute Rehabilitation Unit

This 14-bed inpatient unit at Evergreen Hospital provides intensive rehabilitation in a facility that simulates the home environment. This ensures that patients return home with the rehabilitative training and family education necessary to deal with debilitating diseases. 

Typical patients include those who have had:

• Strokes
• Multiple traumatic injuries after a car accident
• Spinal cord injury
• Non-traumatic spinal cord injury
• Acute peripheral neurologic illnesses such as Guillain-Barré syndrome
• Congestive heart failure or heart attack
• Respiratory illness and weakness after prolonged hospitalization or use of a ventilator for extended periods of time

Generally, acute rehab patients need to be in a closely monitored setting while they receive both rehabilitation and medical follow-up.

There is a close collaboration between the rehabilitation therapists and the ARU nursing staff, so they are able to work together to define the best treatment regimen for each individual patient.

Criteria for Acute Rehabilitation

Upon your physician's request, our admission staff and medical director will verify the patient meets these medical criteria:

• The patient has a condition that requires treatment by more than one therapy discipline (Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy or Neuropsychology).
• The patient must be able to perform a minimum of three hours of therapy a day. 
• The patient has to require the close monitoring of a hospital during rehabilitation versus a skilled nursing facility or other setting where physician visits are less frequent. If a patient needs to be seen by a physician multiple times a week, they really belong in the Acute Rehab Unit rather than a skilled nursing facility.

The admission staff will obtain proper insurance verification and pre-authorization. 

For more information, or to inquire about a referral, please call 425.899.2545.