Short Term Rehabilitation

When the transition from hospitalization to home requires a stay in short term care, The Legacy Living and Rehabilitation Center offers a new, state-of-the-art facility for residents of northeast Wyoming and the surrounding region.

Short term care, also called short term rehabilitation, is focused on getting people back to their homes with a daily therapy schedule, such as physical or speech therapy, and help with the activities of daily living like dressing and cooking meals. Rehabilitation is all about movement, healing and regaining the lifestyle you desire. Our focus is sending you home with renewed strength and confidence in managing your daily life. Short term rehab patients enjoy their own separate wing at The Legacy with private rooms and bathrooms and direct access to the large rehab gym. The Rehab Center is full of natural light and innovative therapeutic equipment to meet every patient’s care plan. Stays typically range from one to several weeks.

Short term rehab services include:

• Physical, occupational and speech therapies with licensed professionals
• Individualized therapies include but are not limited to: balance, strength, dressing, simplifying tasks, pressure reduction, communication, speech, swallowing and energy conservation
• A local physiatrist will help assure that the patients are medically stable to participate in therapies. The physiatrist will also guide the physical, occupational and speech therapists with individualized practices to achieve the best outcomes for each patient
• Care managers can assist with the admission and insurance coverage process

Candidates for short term rehab are individuals who have experienced the following:

• stroke
• prolonged hospitalization
• total joint replacement
• functional or physical decline
• major surgery
• trauma