Persons Served
Persons with medical conditions such as stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, neurological disorder, limited mobility and self-care, cognitive disorder, psychosocial and psychiatric impairment are served in the assisted living unit.
Service Goal
The goal of the ALU is to provide nursing care, coordinate and manage physical restorative, psychosocial and other services that enable the consumer to achieve optimum levels of physical, social, and psychological functioning within their living environment.
Service Features
- Continuous nursing care to consumers housed in the Assisted Living Unit
- Train consumers with physical disabilities in certain self-care activities
- Provide nursing care to consumers housed in the dormitory
- Control medication administration to consumers
- Provide nursing assessments to consumers during the evaluation process
- Manage the schedules of physicians contracted by the Center
- 28-bed unit
Staff members are specialists in general and rehabilitation medicine, psychology/psychiatry, registered nurses, and licensed practical nurses.
The key advantage of the ALU is that physicians and nurses collaborate to coordinate the consumer's treatment regimen and to ensure that quality care results in improved function.