Community Rehabilitation

Community Rehabilitation (CR) provides multidisciplinary rehabilitative therapy to patients aged 16 years and above living in the designated EMHS / RPBG - Bentley Health Service CR postcode catchment area.

The multidisciplinary team aims to provide a coordinated patient-centred service to patients with an impairment, activity limitation or restriction due to a health condition or following an injury.

The team includes:

• clinical psychology
• dietetics
• medical
• nursing
• occupational therapy
• physiotherapy
• speech pathology
• social work.

CR services are assessment based, goal oriented and time-limited. The services are usually delivered in the outpatient setting in D Block, however they may also be delivered in the patients’ home (for example a Falls Specialist, or OT home visit to assess access/equipment), or other community location appropriate to the patients’ goals.

The core rehabilitation services offered include:

• amputee rehabilitation
• cardiac rehabilitation
• falls and mobility
• general deconditioning
• geriatric rehabilitation
• neurological rehabilitation
• Parkinson's Disease services
• pulmonary rehabilitation
• rheumatology rehabilitation
• spinal rehabilitation
• stroke rehabilitation
• trauma and orthopaedic rehabilitation.