Subacute Care + Treatment
The Special Tree NeuroCare Center offers 24-hour skilled nursing and respiratory care, and an array of rehabilitation services. We’re dedicated to providing you with the best possible opportunities for healing and recovery. Our mission begins with one critical question:
“What are your goals?”
Our commitment to providing fabulous everyday care every day begins with the whole person in mind. This includes your beliefs, personality, background, family support, education, occupation, and interests—all of the things that make you the unique and valuable person you are.
Celebrating success or offering encouragement when things get tough, we’re there when you need us most.
Comprehensive Care + Services in a State-of-the-Art Neurorehabilitation Center
The subacute care unit is the foundation of Special Tree’s continuum and provides highly skilled care and comprehensive rehabilitation for adults and children.
With 24/7 skilled nursing, 24/7 on-site respiratory services and advanced, in-wall respiratory equipment, our experienced team of rehabilitation specialists provide care and treatment for clients with more medically complex needs.
The unit, which features 39-private rooms, is one of only a handful of programs accredited by CARF for subacute nursing. CARF-accredited since 1993, our program has a long-standing history as a center of excellence with highly trained staff to meet your rehabilitation needs.
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At Special Tree we work with a variety of consulting physicians, allowing you to enjoy the consistency of care from your primary rehabilitation provider with access to expertise from our team in areas that include specialties such as physical medicine and rehabilitation, psychiatry, vision therapy, and other neurorehabilitation expertise. Your doctor will remain the primary overseer of your rehabilitation, looking out for your medical management, safety, and progress to restore your level of function to the highest degree possible.
Our Physician Services include the expertise of a Physician Assistant who specializes in neurorehabilitation and is on-site regularly to assist with ongoing care of clients.
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Respiratory Therapists (RT) are uniquely trained to evaluate and manage the respiratory needs of clients who have impaired lung function and related needs. On site at the NeuroCare Center 24 hours per day, Special Tree Respiratory Therapists work aggressively to help clients regain their freedom by reducing or eliminating their dependence on mechanical ventilation and artificial airways and weaning clients from ventilators and tracheotomies whenever possible.
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Rehabilitation Nurses provide highly specialized services for clients dealing with issues relating to traumatic brain, spinal cord, and multiple trauma injuries in addition to traditional nursing care. Always on-site, nurses are an integral component of the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team, working closely with RSTs, dietary and nutrition services, respiratory specialists, physicians, therapists, case managers, and others to provide for clients’ day-to-day needs.
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Rehabilitation Service Technicians (RSTs) help clients with personal care and activities of daily living. Special Tree RSTs complete extensive classroom and hands-on training, and participate in continuing education to maintain skills and stay current with best practices in care, safety, and rehabilitation.
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All clients receive a nutrition assessment upon admission to help develop a nutrition care plan based on their individual needs. The nutrition status of each client is monitored through dietary intake, tube feeding intake, fluid intake, weights, laboratory values and input from their support system and Special Tree staff.
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The NeuroCare Campus includes a totally comprehensive rehabilitation clinic which provides a full range of on-site therapy and treatment services. For detailed information about our rehabilitation services, click here.
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Your Special Tree Case Manager is the vital link between you and those involved in your care. Your Case Manager will assist you and your family with scheduling doctor appointments, transportation needs, progress reports, resolving day-to-day problems that may arise, and discharge planning.
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Our team of highly trained, caring, and empathic psychologists help individuals adapt to the challenges of the rehabilitation process and provide genuine support to you throughout your recovery journey.
Psychological Services include individual counseling, group therapy, family/couples counseling, neuropsychological assessment, behavioral treatment programs, and psychoeducation programs for staff, clients, and families.
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Coping with a brain injury or a spinal cord injury can present unique and complex challenges. Social Workers help identify the social and emotional needs of clients and families, and implement plans to support adjustment to the rehabilitation process.
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Working closely with our psychology team, our consulting psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illnesses and emotional problems. Because of their medical training, psychiatrists understand the body’s functions and the complex relationship between emotional illness and other medical illnesses. Psychiatrists experienced in neurorehabilitation are available to Special Tree clients for consultation and treatment when necessary.
Specialized Care to Support Recovery
24/7 Respiratory Services
Special Tree Certified Respiratory Therapists (RTs) are an essential part of the interdisciplinary team, and average less than 30 days to safely decannulate patients who meet the criteria, often a critical step in recovery. Highly skilled RTs provide full service care to patients with many levels of respiratory needs. The NeuroCare Center features advanced, in-wall respiratory equipment, freeing up critical floor space to allow for more spacious rooms for daily living and care.
Services include ventilator management and weaning, pulmonary rehabilitation, non-invasive ventilator support (CPAP/BIPAP), airway maintenance, oxygen and vest therapy, cough assist, and respiratory specialty services.
On-Site Blood Lab
Fully accredited lab services are available right at our NeuroCare Campus. The lab offers many common diagnostic tests and screenings including CBC’s, Electrolyte panels, BMP, CMP’s, Liver function Panels, and Lipid Panels for patients in our sub-acute and residential programs. The lab is accredited by the CLIA, a regulatory division of the FDA.
Having access to on-site lab services is very beneficial for our patients. The quicker we get results, the quicker we can diagnosis and implement treatment which results in better outcomes for our patients. Added benefits include the coordination of medical data all in one place and a decrease in the duplication of services. All this improves control and management of client care for our consulting physicians and treatment team and reduces costs for insurers.
Advanced Wound Care Program
Special Tree’s goal for wound care has always been about prevention and for those wounds that are open, healing them as quickly as possible. Our current model for care builds on years of experience, innovatively incorporating multiple levels of care. In addition to a wound care specialist to manage the program, we've created ways to educate and better equip support staff so everyone is engaged and invested in maintaining skin integrity or knows what to do if the skin is compromised.
Full Service Rehabilitation Clinic
Special Tree offers a broad array of treatment services and therapies for patients including Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech/Language Pathology, Recreational Therapy, and more. An interdisciplinary rehabilitation team works with each patient and their circle of support to coordinate care and services. Our CARF-accredited program includes access to some of the most advanced technology available to assist in rehabilitation and recovery.
Your Independence is Our Top Priority
Your Goals are Our Mission
Neurorehabilitation requires courage and commitment — from patients, and from the people who care about them. We stand by you with the same kind of dedication. We provide advanced therapies and treatments that focus on the needs of your body, and pay attention to the other aspects of your well-being that are really important. Encouragement. A reassuring smile. A calming, knowledgeable presence when you need it. You can count on us to help you find strength to push on toward your personal goals.
