Rehabilitation for Independent Living

The Acute Rehab Unit’s (ARU) goal is your independence. Your Mercy Health Partners team will work together with you to reach your fullest potential in all aspects of daily living—emotional, social, physical and spiritual.

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Patient Room
This typical patient room features bright walls and cheery surroundings. Each room is handicapped-accessible and most are private.

Gym
Our gym spacious and cheerful gym features parallel bars, mats, an unweighing harness device, training stairs and a stationary bike.

ADL (Activities of Daily Living) Apartment
Our apartment is designed to help our patients return home, confident in their abilities to function alone.

Who needs acute rehab?
The ARU is designed to accommodate individual limitations while encouraging individual restoration. The unit serves patients of:

Stroke
Multiple trauma
Selected spinal cord
Traumatic brain injuries
Neuromuscular disease
Orthopedics (including polyarthritis)
Medical patients including: tracheotstomy care/extensive respiratory care, pain management and peritoneal dialysis/HD (hemodialysis).

The Mercy Difference

Independent Living Apartment
Mercy Health Partners Acute Rehab Unit is one of the few facilities offering independent living. As you toward discharge, we want you and your family to feel secure with your level of independence.

For this purpose, we have designed an apartment with a kitchen, laundry and dining. The rehabilitation team will discuss any concerns or limitations with you and your family, and provide training and equipment to overcome any barriers.

Therapeutic Pass
During the latter part of your rehabilitation, the rehabilitation team may suggest a therapeutic pass. The pass is a period of 10 hours or less during the day when you may leave the center.

Therapeutic Outings
We are one of the only rehab faclities that offer outings to patients who are ready for the experience. In the past, we have taken our patients to The Farmers’ Market, Catholic Mass, shopping, and even to a picnic on the beach.

One of the outings our patients enjoy the most is tending to our wheelchair-accessible outside garden. Here, patients are able to plant, help grow vegetables, flowers and herbs.

Your Care Team
Once admitted to the inpatient program, you and your family will work closely with the rehabilitation team, led by the physiatrist, to establish goals and develop a treatment plan. This team includes specialists from:

Rehabilitation nursing
Physical therapy
Occupational therapy
Speech-language pathology
Clinical social work
Pastoral care
Clinical nutrition
Neuropsychology
Case managers
Pharmacists
Respiratory Therapy

Each week, the rehabilitation team will meet with the you to discuss your goals, progress and treatment plan.

Everyone works together to provide not only expert care, but enthusiastic encouragement. Additionally, meetings with family members are held weekly with the team to review your progress, goals and discharge plans.

Orthopedic Care | Rehabilitation For Independent Living | Specialty Programs

• Lakes Rehabilitation 6401 Prairie St., Suite 1800 Norton Shores, MI 49444 (231)-727-7960
• Mercy Rehab Center 1400 Mercy Drive Muskegon, MI 49444 (231) 672-6940
• Norton Rehabilitation 3535 Park St., Suite 103, Norton Shores, MI 49444 (231) 737-7206
• Sports Medicine 1675 Leahy St., Suite 200B, Muskegon, MI 49442 (231) 728-4820
• Whitehall Rehabilitation 905 E. Colby St., Suite 140, Whitehall, MI 49461 (231) 728-5907
• Wound and Lymphedema Clinic 1560 E. Sherman Blvd., Suite 135, Muskegon, MI 49444 (231) 672-3905