After experiencing a life-changing stroke or other illness, your doctor may recommend rehabilitation as the next step on the journey to recovery—but what does that mean, and where should rehabilitation take place?
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What is inpatient rehabilitation? | Encompass Health
Our infection prevention nurse, Elinor, is providing education and administering flu shots to hospital staff.
If the community can’t come into our hospital, we go out to the community! Our exhibit table is at the Ocean County Mall to educate the community.
In celebration of National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, our staff took part in some friendly competition, while also learning about some conditions our patients have. In this Minute to Win It challenge, players had one minute to sort 40 beads by color into separate cups while wearing nitrile gloves. The gloves provide decreased sensation, which simulates neuropathy, a condition often caused by diabetes.
Encompass Health Toms River shared the excitement of National Rehabilitation Awareness Week with the community by offering a breakfast grab and go. Members of the community were invited to grab a goody bag, boxed breakfast and view photos of our new hospital in a drive-through, minimal contact fashion!
Encompass Health Toms River celebrated the kickoff of National Rehabilitation Awareness Week with a delicious cake for all staff and the start of our Color Wars Competition!
Our hospital’s cardiac, stroke and pulmonary rehabilitation programs were recertified this month by The Joint Commission. Thank you to our disease specific program managers and champions, as well as Brittany Wagner, director of quality and risk management, for her leadership! Our hospital also holds certifications in brain injury rehabilitation, advanced inpatient diabetes and wound care.
ARC Seminars provided an interdisciplinary course to our occupational therapists, physical therapists and nursing staff on edema management in inpatient rehabilitation. We care for patients who can have various forms of edema from congestive heart failure, neurogenic edema, chronic venous insufficiency issues and more. Edema impacts a patient’s ability to move.
This skill set aids our staff in managing edema by providing increased comfort and decreased pain. This full day seminar was coordinated by Denise Loughlin, PT, WCC, CLT., DPT.
Pharmacists do much more than fill prescriptions. See the behind the scene roles they play in keeping patients safe in our hospitals.
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The role pharmacists play in patient safety in inpatient rehabilitation hospitals | Encompass Health
Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Toms River played Wheel of Fun with their patients. Patients were able to stop and spin the wheel for a chance to win a prize!
Staff enjoyed a visit from Ohana Grill Food Truck, and wish summer didn’t have to end.
October is National Physical Therapy Month. Melissa Andhor, physical therapist, shares what it is like to work at an Encompass Health rehabilitation hospital and her favorite part of coming to work.
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Being at PT at Encompass Health| Encompass Health
Are you more likely to contract COVID-19 if you get the flu? Can the flu vaccine give you the flu? Answers to these questions and more about why it’s more important than ever to get a flu shot this year.
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Why it's more important than ever to get your flu shot | Encompass Health
Although you may not be able to see it under their masks, our employees are still bringing a smile to work every day. We are thankful to play an integral role in the lives of our patients as we help them regain their independence.
Happy Halloween from the Encompass Health Toms River team!
Our employees showed off their creativity with a pumpkin decorating contest. Let us know your favorite pumpkin in the comments below!
Our team is celebrating #WorldStrokeDay by being a part of the world's biggest dance chain. One in four people worldwide will have a stroke, but being active can help decrease your risk.
A proud national sponsor of the American Heart Association's Together to End Stroke initiative, Encompass Health is committed to helping educate our communities about stroke and stroke recovery.
National Healthcare Quality Week is a time to acknowledge the progress made toward improving patient outcomes and to prepare ourselves for the many challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
We celebrated this week with several fun activities such as word searches, wheel of fun and a poster competition testing staff knowledge.
Wearing a mask all day has been a big adjustment for us all and can make it difficult to understand people. Here are some tips to communicate better when your message is muffled by a mask.
Patients celebrated New Year's Eve by making noise makers in therapy and then using them in our annual ball drop celebration. This tradition has been going on in our hospital for more than 20 years.
It can be hard to tell what is season allergies and what is COVID-19. Do you know what symptoms they share and what symptoms are different?
At the end of 2020’s gray days, this beautiful sunrise has us looking forward to the new year!
Posted in our therapy gym, our patients and some staff members wrote down their New Year’s Resolutions!
On Christmas Day we also celebrated the birthday of Kathy Colon, RN (second from left). Happy birthday, Kathy, from your Encompass Health Toms River family.
