Specialized Programs

Meeting unique patient needs to achieve recovery

California Rehabilitation Institute’s inpatient clinical team works closely with organ transplant specialists to provide a personalized care continuum that achieves the best transplant outcomes for our patients.

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Maximizing transplant outcomes

Following surgery, transplant patients may experience debility, weakness, neurological problems and/or cognitive issues. California Rehabilitation Institute’s highly trained physicians and treatment team use the latest technology, equipment and therapy practices to help patients recover.

Our goal is to help patients resume everyday life and community living, including walking, communicating and daily activities that require strength and endurance. Your family and loved ones also play an important role in recovery and are involved in our caregiver training in preparation for your return home.

We work closely with transplant coordinators and surgeons to coordinate medical and rehabilitative care, keeping you at the center of all we do.

Our rehabilitation teams are experienced in treating a wide range of neurological and physical issues as well as weaknesses that may arise from organ transplantation. At California Rehabilitation Institute, we are skilled in treating and rehabilitating patients who have undergone heart or liver transplants.
California Rehabilitation Institute draws on the expertise of medical rehabilitation specialists to address the range of physical and functional issues that occur following organ transplantation.

This inter-professional team is led by a physiatrist, a physician board-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, and includes rehabilitation nurses; physical, occupational, speech and recreation therapists; dietitians; pharmacists; case managers and other clinical and support staff, as needed.
Each patient has different challenges, goals and expectations. Tailored treatment can help:

Restore physical abilities

Build strength and endurance

Minimize pain

Improve balance and mobility

Enhance skills to perform daily activities

Avoid complications

Optimize independence
Therapy sessions include hands-on activities and high-tech therapy equipment. They are provided three hours per day, five days a week, or 15 hours over a seven-day period, depending on a patient’s tolerance and ability to actively participate.

Your care plan may focus on:

Mobility skills training such as transfers, standing and walking

Strengthening, coordination and endurance exercises

Tactics to improve communication, swallowing and vision

Daily living activities such as dressing, eating and bathing

Strategies to improve memory, concentration, judgment and problem solving

Medication management

Community reintegration strategies

Caregiver education and training

It’s important to remember that recovery takes time. Each patient is different and your stay with us will depend on your diagnosis, rehabilitation needs, goals and daily progress.