Catawba Valley Medical Center Recognizes National Rehabilitation Awareness
Celebration Week
HICKORY, NC –This year, National Rehabilitation Awareness Celebration
Week is September 18-24. Rehabilitation is a medical specialty which helps
restore people affected by potentially disabling disease or traumatic
injury to good health and functional, productive lives and also helps
minimize physical and cognitive disabilities.
Catawba Valley Medical Center’s (CVMC) CARF accredited Inpatient
Rehabilitation Unit will be celebrating this week by holding its annual
Rehabilitation Reunion September 20, 2011 at 6p.m. in the AHEC 112 room
on CVMC’s campus. The event welcomes back previous rehab patients
and their families to celebrate their recovery and life since their inpatient
rehabilitation experience.
CVMC’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Department is a 10-bed unit that
offers an interdisciplinary team approach to care provided by a medical
director specialized in rehabilitation, rehabilitation nurses, physical
occupational and recreational therapists, speech-language pathologists,
case managers and other professionals as consulted.
Catawba Valley Medical Center is the first facility in the southeast to
offer Tibion Bionic leg treatment interventions in its Physical Therapy
department. The Speech-Language Pathology department offers new assessment
and treatment technology with the Digital Swallowing Workstation. CVMC
also offers monthly community Stroke Support Group meetings to support
stroke survivors and their families during their recovery after their
inpatient rehabilitation. CVMC’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit has
an 89.45 percent discharge to the community, and 98.5 percent of patients
report satisfaction with their rehab stay during follow-up calls. CVMC
scored 4.99 out of 5, rating that patients would recommend CVMC to a friend
or family member.
For more information regarding CVMC’s Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit,
contact Mimi Stachowski, Director, at 828/326-3248 or Leslie Williamson,
Admission Liaison, at 828/326-3100. For more information
about the community Stroke Support Group, contact Heather Bissell at 828/326-3046.
Catawba Valley Medical Center in Hickory, N.C., is the region’s largest
not-for-profit, public healthcare system and serves the community without
direct funding from taxes. CVMC provides and promotes physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual well-being of the public in addition to serving
as a center for health education, wellness services, preventive medicine
and acute care. In addition to CARF accreditation, CVMC has received three
Magnet designations from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and
has been recognized for providing “An Outstanding Inpatient Experience”
for a fourth consecutive year by J.D. Power and Associates. For more information,
please visit
http://www.catawbavalleymedical.org.