Category Archives for Rehab
Emergency Preparedness: New Regulations From CMS
Are You Ready? New Disaster Readiness Rule From CMS Impacts Nursing Homes, Hospitals and Home Health Agencies “Planning for the protection and care of patients, clients, residents, and staff during an emergency or disaster is a good business practice” states…
Tags: Emergency Preparedness, New Disaster Readiness Rules, Planning For Protection
Heart/Stroke Association: Most Stroke Patients Should Go To inpatient Rehab Facilities
May is Stroke Awareness Month and, like every year at this time, the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association has released a new set of guidelines. What’s unprecedented about this year’s guidelines, the eighth set, is that they are…
Tags: Stroke Awareness Month, Stroke Recovery, The Brentwood Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center Stroke Recovery Program
Brainy Technology: Advances That Revolutionize Health
Dedicated to raise awareness and support individuals living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness month. These weeks of heightened awareness about brain health, underscore the importance of early detection – and technology appears…
Tags: Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness month, brain, brain technology, brain vitals
Generic Vicodin Top Medicare Drug in 2013
An article this past Sunday brought to light startling data: The most widely prescribed drug to Medicare D beneficiaries in 2013 was a generic version of the powerful prescription pain killer Vicodin. Underscoring how at ease physicians are writing prescriptions…
Tags: Health Care, Healthcare, Long Term Care, Medicare, prescription drugs
BIG Rewards: The Promise of Small Changes in Nutrition
Be mindful of seemingly inconsequential eating habits: their impact is bigger than you can imagine – especially when it comes to the Senior population. When we consider the health of older adults, we tend to think about the most common…
Tags: Aging, Health and Nutrition, nutrition
Exome Sequencing – A New Take on Family History
I have been enthralled with Genome Sequencing for sometime now – and for good reason: In one case at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, doctors expected to have to remove the pancreas from a baby girl with very low…
Tags: Genome Sequencing
Brain Plasticity and Rehabilitation
Who Says You Can’t Teach The Old Maestro A New Tune? What changes in our brain as we get older and how do those changes affect our abilities to learn, develop new skills, and rehabilitate from injury? In the last…
Tags: brain plasticity, neuroplasticity, rehabilitation
It’s Not The “Where” But The “Specialized Care”
Choosing where to continue one’s rehabilitation following a hospital stay, is a crucial decision that affects the quality and length of one’s recovery. A bad choice, meaning a facility that is not well-equipped with the expertise to treat your specific condition,…
Tags: cardiac program, Post-acute facility, rehabilitation, wound care program
Rise of Orthopedic Rehab Specially Geared Towards Children in Response to Increase in Sports Injuries
More than 3.5 million children receive treatment for sports injury annually, with high-school athletes accounting for an estimated 2 million of them. With a growing year-round emphasis on competitive sports – especially single-sport concentration and intense training regimens – medical…
Tags: ACL surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, orthopedic rehab, pediatric rehab, rehab for children, sports injuries
