In our short-term skilled nursing and rehabilitation Huttleston Unit, our expertise is in managing the smooth transition to rehabilitation care for patients who come directly from hospitals.

Orthopedic rehabilitation is our specialty; we take a team approach to recovery with our rehab and nursing services for total knee and total hip replacement surgeries.

Some of the features of our program include:

• A pre-op meeting with our admissions coordinator and discharge planner
• Tour of the facility and the Huttleston Unit, including a typical patient room
• Chance to meet the medical and rehab staff
• Pre-registration paperwork completed in advance

For our rehab staff, the patient's healing process is our entire focus. Our team of licensed physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and licensed therapy assistants have extensive acute hospital or acute rehab experience in geriatrics, orthopedics, and cardiopulmonary and neurological interventions. We provide a comprehensive program of rehab therapy seven days a week, all with the goal of “getting you home.”

We are proud of our orthopedic rehab services, which are designed to streamline your admissions and discharge process and give you the best chance for a speedy recovery.

Our orthopedic surgery recovery standards are a five-eight day stay for a total knee replacement and 10-14 day stay for total hip replacement. We achieve this by working with you or your family member to develop an individual treatment plan based on “care mapping,“ the planning and charting of daily goals and progress.

We also expertly treat patients with other medically complex conditions, such as:

• Stroke
• Heart attack, congestive heart failure and other cardiac occurrences
• Cancer
• Unstable diabetes
• Chronic respiratory diseases
• Generalized functional decline (due to prolonged hospitalization)

For all our short-term patients, we offer highly skilled nursing services in:

• IV therapy
• Pain management
• Post surgical care
• Wound care
• End of life care

Short stay patients receive extensive nursing and rehab services from a team led by nurse manager. Our focused individual treatment plans are designed to bring you or your loved one to the highest functional level as quickly as we can.

Because we know a positive mindset is a vital component of healing, we provide our patients with art classes, Nautilus equipment and other recreational activities, as well as personal care amenities such as a salon and spa. We also encourage and accommodate the active involvement of family members in the patient's recovery.

Under the direction of nurse managers, the Whitfield and Cooke units provide residents with a comfortable and lively home where individualized care is the standard. With more than ? combined years of service, the nurse managers , along with their staff, treat residents like family while offering the highest quality medical care.

Skilled nursing care around the clock helps residents avoid hospitalizations, and a full calendar of activities, both inside our facility and out, add to quality of life. We create “neighborhoods” with various sitting rooms to visit with family, and our new media room with theater seating, salon, health spa, and library provide many choices for activities.

Alden Court is known for its activities program, which, unlike other facilities, has offerings on late afternoons, evenings and weekends. We value our families and create many opportunities for visit, including a steady stream of local performers. We also offer a therapeutic art program two times per week and mount an exhibit of residents' work each year.

We try to provide a continuation of what our residents might do at home, with the goal of keeping residents busy and engaged.