Inpatient Rehabilitation

3 Steps to Inpatient Rehabilitation

Step 1: Referral

Every admission begins with a pre-admission assessment. Together, our team will explain inpatient rehabilitation and create your personalized treatment plan. This includes goals for recovery, therapy and treatment options.

Referrals are accepted by hospitals, private physicians, insurance companies and other post-acute providers. Patients may be admitted from a hospital, skilled nursing facility, or a long-term acute care facility or home. We accept all insurers that are contracted with the facility and participate with Medicare, Georgia Medicaid, workers’ compensation and most managed care plans. A payment plan can be arranged for self-pay patients. 

Step 2: Admission

Admission determinations are made by our healthcare team, led by the medical director of rehabilitation. Criteria for admission is determined by Medicare, and potential patients’ medical information is reviewed in detail by our physicians and admissions team to determine if those criteria are met.  Many insurance companies require prior authorization for an inpatient rehabilitation stay, and that may take up to 72 hours to obtain.

For consideration for inpatient care, the referred patient must meet the following criteria at the time of admission:

• Require active and ongoing intervention of multiple therapy disciplines — including physical therapy, occupational therapy or speech-language pathology — at least one of which must be physical or occupational therapy.
• Require an intensive rehabilitation therapy program, generally consisting of three hours per day, five days per week.
• Reasonably be expected to actively participate in, and benefit significantly from, the intensive rehabilitation program.
• Require physician supervision by a rehabilitation physician, with face-to-face visits at least three days a week. Visits will be used to assess the patient both medically and functionally, and modify the course of treatment, as needed.
• Require an intensive and coordinated interdisciplinary approach to receiving rehabilitative care.

The goal of rehabilitation is to return home to the community at discharge. The discharge planning process begins the day you are admitted and involves the patient, family members and rehabilitation team. We address individual progress and discharge needs throughout interdisciplinary team meetings, family education sessions and family conferences. 

Your care team will support you as you prepare for discharge so that you can stay healthy and live comfortably. Your case manager and therapists will assist you in determining and obtaining the necessary equipment, follow-up services and resources upon discharge.