Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana If someone you love is in a hospital bed right now, you have been handed a decision and very little time. Start with what happened to them. The number that decides it This is the difference between an inpatient rehabilitation hospital and a skilled nursing facility, and it is the thing families are least often told.
Across the first two weeks that is
35 hours of therapy at RHI,
against 15 at a skilled nursing facility.
The part nobody explains Written out the way a nurse would tell you. Therapy sessions are highlighted. Nights are covered by nurses with specialist rehabilitation training, every night. Who is in the room Not whoever is on shift. The same people, meeting every week about one person. The weeks ahead Every recovery is its own. This is the usual shape of one. Before you decide The hospital case manager decides which referrals get sent. These are the questions that tend to change the answer.What happens next?
How much therapy, every weekday
A day on the unit
The team built around
What recovery tends to look like
Ask the case manager these
At RHI
At a skilled nursing facility