Inpatient and Day Treatment Programs
The Brain Injury Program offers a full continuum of services from coma recovery treatment to post-acute treatment. Brain injured individuals with physical and cognitive limitations re-learn simple tasks and the rehabilitation team assists the patient's family and friends with the adjustment and re-establishment of life within the community.
Emotional and psychological support is available to help patients and families deal with long-term effects of a brain injury. As the patient progresses, post-acute services in the form of day treatment and in-home/community treatment are available.
According to the National Safety Council, more than 700,000 Americans suffer from brain injury each year. This statistic underscores the need for comprehensive treatment programs to help brain injured patients and their families put their lives back together and return to home, community, workplace and school. Brain injury can result from a variety of reasons including traumatic insult, aneurysm or anoxia. Each individual with brain injury suffers from very different disabilities. Patients may be in comatose state or show just minor deficits in thinking. Each person is unique.
System of Care
A full spectrum of specialized services is available to provide optimum care of brain injured patients. Services range from emergency care supported by helicopter ambulance services to acute medical care, acute rehabilitation and post acute programs. Community reintegration is provided through a continuation of therapies, medical follow-up and the TGI Care Brain Injury Day Treatment Program.
Comprehensive Team Approach
We call on the skills of the entire interdisciplinary team. Team members evaluate each patient to develop and implement an integrated treatment plan to address the patient's individual needs.
Treatment addresses physical, emotional and cognitive needs through structured rehab therapy, medical management, counseling and family education.
One of the unique programs is the pet therapy program. Abilities not seen in structured therapy may become evident while interacting with the animals.
The team members responsible for the comprehensive care provided to the patient include:
- Medical Psychology
- Medical and Surgical Consultants
- Occupational Therapy
- Orthotist/Prosthetist
- Physiatrist (MD specializing in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Social Services
- Rehabilitation Nursing
- Speech Therapy
- Therapeutic Recreation
Patient and Family Training
To ensure a successful outcome, family participation is critical during each step of the recovery process. Education starts from the beginning of the patient stay.
Our orientation packet includes information regarding stages of recovery and what to expect while working toward recovery. As the stay continues, families are trained to assist with certain portions of care in order for the patient to be as prepared as possible for discharge. Upon discharge, the patient and family will have a clear understanding of physical abilities and limitations, medications, toileting needs, skin care and equipment.
Brain Injury Day Treatment and Home & Community
Services Although an individual may have successfully completed inpatient rehabilitation, there may be instances when he or she is not yet ready to resume their usual lifestyle after brain injury. Family members may notice that their loved one has difficulty with memory, safety, verbal expression, problem solving, controlling impulses, making appropriate decisions or other problems which affect independent living.
The facility offers the T.G.I. Care Brain Injury Day Treatment Program designed to re-integrate the brain injured individual back into his or her community. Re-integration can mean return to a job, going to school, living independently or resuming some other type of function in the community. Using comprehensive therapies and emphasizing an individual and group treatment approach, clients are given the skills and insight to achieve success in major aspects of their lives.
The program is comprehensive and covers cognitive retraining, social skills, general emotional adjustment, speech therapy, prevocational and vocational activities. It also includes endurance and stamina building, daily living and recreational skills, and regular contact within the community. When appropriate, services are also provided within the home. For information, please call (818) 885-7547.
Brain Injury Day Treatment Program
Our Brain Injury Day Treatment Program is designed to enable clients to function as independently as possible within their home, work, school or community environments. This is accomplished through development of individualized treatment plans, which are monitored by a member of the treatment team, the Clinical Case Coordinator. Plans are flexible and redefined as treatment progresses, so as to meet the needs of the client, family, insurer and case manager.
Program Overview
A Clinical Case Coordinator is assigned to each client and is the direct point of contact for the client, family, referral source and payor regarding progress and outcomes. This case management system provides accountability for achievement of goals.
Through assistance from the multidisciplinary team and program resources, the Clinical Case Coordinator helps the client, and family, set and achieve goals. The interdisciplinary team includes a neuropsychologist, speech language pathologist, occupational therapist, certified occupational therapy assistant, recreation therapist, physical therapist, and social worker. The team works together to develop an individualized treatment plan, which enhances the client's cognitive, physical, social, and productive activity skills.
The Vital Support Of Family And Friends
Families are encouraged to participate in the treatment plan to gain a better understanding of the various skills needed for brain-injured individuals to resume an active family and social life. Families learn about their role in supporting the brain injured person throughout the treatment process, and in developing realistic expectations of the client's potential outcome.
Home and Community Services
The Home and Community Services of the Brain Injury Day Treatment Program benefit individuals with neurologic impairments who have rehabilitation potential to make gains from medically directed interventions that address physical, cognitive, language and communication deficits.
The home and community care team concept has an important place in the rehabilitation continuum of care for brain injury patients. Because the ultimate goal for a patient is to return to the highest functional level possible within their home and community, it logically follows that some portion of therapeutic intervention should take place in those settings.
We start with an evaluation, and goals are set to help achieve success. By incorporating cognitive retraining, social skills, endurance training, emotional adjustment, daily living and recreational skills, speech/language activities, pre-vocational activities and family involvement into the treatment plan, the therapy team helps participants regain skills in settings where everyday living tasks are performed.
The therapeutic program can begin in the home. As the patient progresses, the home program will be expanded to include the neighborhood, various transportation services, shopping centers, volunteer work, academic settings and ultimately competitive employment.
Quality Management
Successful client progress results from a carefully designed treatment plan while the client participates in the program and follow-up after discharge. Our follow-up system is designed to evaluate achievement of goals, assess outcome over an extended period of time and provide the basis for continuous upgrading of standards, staff education and improvement in the quality of client services.
Financial Arrangements
The Program Coordinator assists clients and their families to determine insurance coverage prior to entering the program. For additional information on the Brain Injury Day Treatment Program, or to find out about insurance coverage, please contact the Program Coordinator at (818) 349-0265.
