Short-Term Rehabilitation
at The Selfhelp Home in Chicago

While recovering from join replacement surgery, fractures, injuries or joint surgery, we offer intensive Orthopedic Therapy that uses the latest equipment and modalities. With therapy offered 5-6 days a week, you will gain strength and mobility while building up physical endurance. Our highly skilled team of therapists will work at your pace to reach your personal goals. We’ve been entrusted by some of the finest orthopedic surgeons in the Chicago area and with work with your doctor on a customized therapy recovery program.

• On-site physiatrist to oversee your therapy program
• Therapy 5-6 days a week

The Heart Health Rehabilitation program at the Selfhelp Home is a post-acute short-term medically supervised program designed to improve your cardiovascular health after a cardiac event, a planned surgery or just to manage an ongoing heart or pulmonary diagnosis.

By participating in a cardiac rehab program, you lower the risk of death and health complications after a cardiac event or procedure and boost your chance of returning to an active lifestyle. It also reduces the chances of returning to the hospital.

Our Heart Health Rehab program has 3 equally important parts:

1. Exercise

A one- on -one coach to get your heart pumping with structured exercises in our therapy gym, get your entire cardiovascular system working. Not only does it improve your mood, it reduces risk factors and symptoms.

Rehabilitation Therapy

• Physical Therapy: Lower body strengthening, gait and balance training
• Occupational therapy: “ADL” (activities of daily living) re-training, endurance training, upper body strengthening.
• Speech Therapy: Swallowing, cognitive/memory therapy

2. Monitoring

• On-site Cardiologist during your stay. We work as a team with your own doctors to coordinate your care.
• Daily Weights &
• Weekly and STAT labs
• On- site EKG, Xray, Ultrasound, Dopplers

3. Education

Education on heart healthy living and skill-building enable patients to make lifestyle changes that enhance heart health.

• Manage risk factors: A key element of the Heart Health Rehabilitation Program is to help you make long lasting lifestyle changes to improve your overall health by identifying and controlling your risk factors such as high blood pressure and cholesterol or smoking.
• Dietician- Understand how your diet is a major factor in maintaining a healthy heart. Work with our dietary team and a registered Dietician to establish a menu that works for you.
• Reducing stress: Stress hurts your heart. This part of cardiac rehab helps you identify and tackle everyday sources of stress. Our on-site social workers can work with you to identify stressors in your life and make referrals for ongoing care and management. Counseling helps patients reduce stress and address psychosocial factors that affect their health.
• Pastoral Care (Spiritual Care)-Taking care of your spiritual and emotional well-being are part of your recovery. As a patient in our short-term unit, we can help you connect to a spiritual leader of your choice. Our social workers and other healthcare staff can help you find meaning and purpose in a safe environment.

Designed to help patients with chronic breathing problems associated with chronic lung disease (COPD), emphysema, pneumonia and chronic bronchitis. We focus on giving you the tools you need to improve your overall quality of life, increase exercise and reduce shortness of breath.

We offer specialty programming and treatment for people with Parkinson’s Disease and other neurological conditions. This program is also available as part of our outpatient therapy.

A results driven program for patients who have suffered a stroke, Parkinson’s disease, an other neurological disorders. By utilizing the latest recovery tools, your treatment is enhanced through ultrasound and E-Stim. Our speech and occupational therapists work to help you regain functionality you may have lost, in addition to offering cognitive retaining and stress and depression management.

Wound Care at Selfhelp

• On -Site Wound Care Physician visits the home once a week
• Full time certified wound care nursing and therapy team
• Bedside Debridement

Education & Prevention

• Provides instruction to patients and their families on proper care
• Coordinates wound care supplies to maintain at home
• Consults on proper nutrition, as needed.
• Follow up telehealth sessions with our wound care physician.

We offer a broad range of therapies and treatments:

• Topical Dressings
• Vacuum-assisted Closure
• Compression Therapy
• Ostomy and Stoma Care
• Surgical wound debridement
• Wound VAC
• Chemical wound debridement
• Diabetic ulcers
• Pressure ulcers
• Arterial and venous ulcers
• Burns
• Infections
• Surgical wounds
• Amputations
• E-Stim

Complex wounds resulting from conditions that compromise circulation:

Diabetes, traumatic injury, surgical breakdown, congestive heart failure, vascular disease, incontinence, obesity, renal failure and others.

Bedside Surgical Debridement:

Our on-site wound care physician offers Bedside Surgical Debridement, considered the “gold standard” of necrotic wound treatments. Debridement is a procedure for treating a wound in the skin. It involves thoroughly cleaning the wound and removing all hyperkeratotic (thickened skin or callus), infected, and nonviable (necrotic or dead) tissue, foreign debris, and residual material from dressings. This includes surgical debridement, enzymatic debridement’s, and autolytic debridement.

Wound Care Team

Exercises to increase strength, mobility, flexibility and endurance

Therapy regimen based on the activities you need to do in order to return home

Speech language pathologists address swallowing issues, language deficits and or cognitive impairments

An opportunity for music therapy services for rehabilitation residents that may benefit from extra individual support during their rehab stay. The program is at no additional cost. Needs may be related to physical, occupational, or speech therapy, using music therapy interventions to address specific rehab goals. Group and or individual sessions may be offered to rehab patients that qualify.

• Administration of intravenous medications such as antibiotics
• Ostomy care, training, education and management
• Enteral nutrition (feeding tube) care, training and education
• Parenteral nutrition (intravenous feeding) care, training and education
• Onsite bladder scanner to diagnose common urological conditions, assess urinary retention, prevent unnecessary catheterization and reduce urinary tract infections