River Park Hospital

River Park Hospital’s Rehabilitation Center is a comprehensive, hospital-based rehabilitation facility serving McMinnville and the surrounding area. The Center is dedicated to assisting patients in their recovery on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. An interdisciplinary team of licensed physical, occupational and speech therapists work together with rehabilitation nurses and social workers on an individual plan of therapy for each patient, helping them to regain abilities or to adapt to permanent disabilities. Psychology services are available for consult as needed.

Listen as Kenny Kominos, Director of Therapy Services, tells you more about the quality care and compassionate service you’ll enjoy at River Park Hospital…

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Inpatient Rehabilitation Center

The Inpatient Rehabilitation Center offers services to patients diagnosed with:

• Stroke
• Traumatic brain injury
• Spinal cord injury
• Amputation
• Hip fracture
• Neurological disorders
• Major multiple trauma
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Burns

River Park Hospital’s Rehabilitation Center is also concerned with preventing work-related injuries before they happen. Qualified professionals are available to provide area companies with education programs and job assessments. For more information on any of the services offered by River Park Hospital Rehabilitation Center, call (931) 815-4367.

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapists are available to help patients adjust to, or overcome, the effects of illness or injury, and address activities of daily living:

• Dressing, cooking, hygiene
• Upper extremity – strengthening, flexibility, coordination
• Mobility in the home
• Cognitive skills
• Perceptual skills
• Adaptive equipment

Occupational therapists at RPH are certified by the American Occupational Therapy Association and are licensed by the State of Tennessee. Occupational therapists are graduates of accredited university programs, holding Bachelor’s or Master’s Degrees in Occupational Therapy.

Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy is provided and is an integral part of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation program. Physical therapists address mobility, lower extremity strengthening, coordination and sensation. Therapy may address:

• Joint range of motion
• Muscle strengthening & endurance
• Mobility – by ambulation or wheelchair
• Need & use of braces or artificial limbs
• Car transfers

RPH’s physical therapy staff consists of experienced licensed physical therapists and trained physical therapy assistants. All physical therapists are licensed by the State of Tennessee, and are graduates of accredited university programs in physical therapy.

Speech Therapy

Our Speech Language Pathologists have a Master’s Degree in Speech Language Pathology, are certified by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and are licensed by the State of Tennessee. We are in the position to treat our patients from the beginning of their illness in the acute hospital, through their rehab stay, and then in their outpatient program. We offer speech therapy for:

• Communication
• Language
• Cognition
• Memory
• Swallowing
• Speech
• Hearing Screenings
• Voice

We offer these services for a multitude of disorders/diseases, such as the following:

• Stroke
• Traumatic brain injury
• Cancer
• Cerebral Palsy
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Other neurological disorders

Individual therapy sessions are designed to build on the patient’s strengths to improve their communication and processing skills enabling them to become better communicators and more functional in their environment.

Rehabilitation Nursing

Teaching independence is the goal of our rehabilitation nurses at RPH. In addition to primary patient care, nurses work one-on-one with patients, helping to retrain activities of daily living, educating in proper medication schedules and addressing patients’ cognitive, physical and social skills. Members of the staff are licensed in the State of Tennessee and are graduates of accredited nursing schools. Nurses hold Associate or Bachelor Degrees in Nursing and may become Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurses (CRRN) after completing specified qualification.

River Park Hospital Social Services

The Social Services Department at River Park Hospital works with patients and families, providing discharge planning, short-term counseling, referral to outside resources and assisting with end-of-life issues such as Living Wills and Advance Directives. The Department is staffed with skilled and experienced social workers who have bachelor’s or master’s degrees.

RPH social workers specialize in handling medically related issues and work with a variety of patients including victims of abuse, severe trauma, terminal illness, permanent disabilities and drug or alcohol addiction. Social Services is the liaison between patients and family members and the medical team, keeping the lines of communication open. Social workers take a look at the “whole picture,” focusing on patients’ needs following their discharge from the hospital — helping them to adjust to illness and the changes they will be faced with.

There are many support groups, community service groups, social agencies and sources of financial assistance available in the McMinnville area for patients and their families. Social Services helps identify these resources and services for patients to help make the transition from the hospital to home as easy as possible.

Although most patients making a trip to the hospital do not expect to use the services of a social worker during their stay, many find Social Service to be an important part of the health care team at RPH.