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At HealthBridge St. Louis, our designated Complex Care Unit specializes in serving patients with medical complexities and severe functional limita-tions, such as those resulting from neurotrauma. These types of conditions require an extensive network of specialized services, equipment and a highly-skilled interdisciplinary medical team. Because these patients need intensive medical care and monitoring, we offer 24/7 care, a very high nurse-to-patient ratio, and high-intensity rehabili-tation in our state-of-the-art gym.
Our Complex Care Unit Medical Team
Within our Complex Care Unit, our team of specialists includes the Medical Director, Physiatrist, Pulmonologist, Neuro-psychologist, and a Nurse Practitioner Unit Director.
Our Complex Care Unit Therapy Team
A medically complex patient requires a broad spectrum of specialized therapies, all of which are offered within the HealthBridge St. Louis Complex Care Unit. These include:
Respiratory Therapy
- Ventilator care and liberation
- High frequency ventilation for secretion management
- Airway management/tracheostomy care and speaking valve replacement
- Trach decannulation
- 24-hour respiratory care
- Heated high flow oxygen therapy
- Complex bi-level ventilation
- Family and caregiver training
Physical Therapy
Physical therapy helps injured or ill people improve movement through individualized assessment, diagnosis and treatment, utilizing:
Complex Care Unit
- Scar and edema management techniques
- ower extremity strengthening
- Pain management protocols
- Heat and cryotherapy
- Gait and vestibular retraining techniques
- Manual therapy
- Joint mobilization
- Kinesiology taping
- Work conditioning
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy provides the necessary training and tools to assist patients in regaining control for everyday life, including:
- Motor coordination
- Upper extremity strengthening
- Activities of daily living (dressing, mobility, transferring and eating)
- Cognition retraining and sensory integration
- Visual-perceptual deficits and low vision
- Wheelchair seating and mobility training
- Assessment for assistive devices and durable medical equipment
- Splinting/orthosis management
Speech-Language Pathology
A speech-language pathologist works with patients having difficulty speaking, understanding, reading, writing and swallowing, as well as those with cognitive deficits. Patients may require:
- Swallowing evaluation, management and retraining
- Instrumental exam of swallow function (FEES/MBSS)
- Vital Stim/E-Stim for swallowing
- Speech and language evaluation and treatment
- Auditory processing retraining
- Cognitive skills retraining to enhance memory, problem solving and attention
- Melodic intonation therapy
- Aphasia therapy
- Voice therapy
- Speaking valve management
- Augmentative and alternative communication assessment and training
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