Acute Care Rehabilitation Services
The Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation department at Parkland Health focuses on guiding patients through recovery after significant medical challenges. Whether you're healing from an injury, stroke or surgery, our goal is to improve the quality of life and restore your daily function.
Acute Care Therapy Services
A large therapy staff is spread throughout the hospital system to provide treatment to any patient in need. Service areas include, but are not limited to, neurology, neurosurgery, trauma, specialty surgical services, burns, oncology and general medicine areas. The therapy staff will even evaluate patients in the emergency department to reduce wait times.
Adult Intensive Care Units: The therapy team starts helping patients as early as their Intensive Care Unit (ICU) stay. Parkland’s nationally recognized early mobility program helps patients start to talk, walk and perform self -care activities to preserve function during acute illness while in the ICU.
Burn Unit: Therapists dedicated to the burn ICU and step- down unit have been implementing early mobility practice standards before the term was ever coined. Our physical and occupational therapists spend ample time stretching and mobilizing patients to improve short- and long-term outcomes. Speech therapists utilize objective swallow evaluations via Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallow (FEES), implement communication training for tracheostomized patients and work to improve mouth/jaw movement for feeding.
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Parkland houses one of the largest Level III Neo-Natal ICUs in the U.S with 96 beds housed in private rooms for each infant and family. Our dedicated team of specialized physical, occupational and speech therapists include a Certified Neo-natal therapist and Infant Massage therapist. Therapy helps the tiniest patients meet developmental milestones and safely swallow to get home faster.
Inpatient Psychiatric Care: Occupational therapists play an important role in improving social/ behavioral skills and self-care skills during one-on-one treatment or within a group therapy setting.