About Inpatient Rehab
Inpatient rehabilitation (rehab) facilities play a crucial role in helping individuals regain functional independence and improve their quality of life after experiencing significant injuries, surgeries or medical conditions. Summa Rehab Hospital focuses on helping patients regain their physical, cognitive and functional abilities.
As an inpatient, you’ll be the center of a multidisciplinary team helping you maximize return to function, perform daily activities and return to home, work, school and leisure interests. You will learn the foundational skills for independent living by assuming greater responsibility to direct and perform your own care. We also educate family members to play an active support role while you are in the hospital and after returning home.
Inpatient Rehab Services
Summa Rehab Hospital offers:
- All private rooms with private baths
- Natural light throughout the hospital for improved healing and quality of life
- 5,000+ square foot rehab gym with private treatment space available
- Functional living area to practice newly learned therapy techniques
- Outdoor ambulatory patio to simulate community surfaces
- Bariatric rooms with overhead lift device to support up to 1,000 pounds
Our goal and purpose is to help you safely return home. An average stay is 10-14 days and you will participate in an intensive therapy program consisting of three hours of therapy, five days a week. A physician will see you three or more times a week. Your multidisciplinary team will meet weekly to ensure recovery, optimization of functional mobility and adequate caregiver training. This team consists of:
- Physician
- Registered nurse
- Physical therapist
- Occupational therapist
- Pharmacist
- Case manager
Other team members based on need, may include:
- Speech therapist
- Wound care nurse
- Respiratory therapist
- Dietitian
Summa Rehab Hospital has been accredited by Commission on Accreditation Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in the following specialty programs: General Inpatient Rehabilitation, Amputation, Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke Specialty Programs.
With a high level of physician oversight, as well as an intensive, thorough therapy program, Summa Rehab Hospital excels at helping patients return home at their highest level of independence. If you question if inpatient rehab is right for you, ask your case manager to make a referral to Summa Rehab Hospital, or please call 330.572.7255.
Our Network
Summa Rehab Hospital is located on the grounds of Summa Health System — Akron Campus. During your stay at Summa Rehab Hospital, you will continue to receive many of the same services as you did at Summa Health. We are connected with Summa Health lab and radiology services. A large network of Summa Health specialists can follow your care at Summa Rehab Hospital. We also have a strong relationship with Select Specialty Hospital, Summa Home Infusion and Summa Health at Home.
At Summa Rehab Hospital, our focus is purely rehabilitation. Our passion and vision is to always provide state-of-the-art resources, technology, programs and services that help each of our patients maximize their recovery potential and function. We offer specialized services:
- Large network of specialty physicians
- RNs on site 24/7
- In-house radiology suite
- On-site pharmacy with meds to beds program
- Multidisciplinary pain management
- Fall prevention program including video monitoring
- On-site dialysis – hemo and peritoneal
- Certified wound care nurse
- Prosthetic services and onsite lab
- Support groups
- Outpatient neurotherapy program
- Utilizes neuro-specialized clinicians, equipment and space to offer individualized therapeutic evaluations and plans of care to further neurological recovery upon discharge home (same location as Summa Rehab Inpatient Therapy).
- Neuro-specialized equipment
EksoNR
Wearable, battery-operated bionic exoskeleton that enables individuals with lower extremity weakness to stand and walk on level surfaces
FES Bike
Electrical stimulation for upper and lower extremities that adjusts and adapts to patient needs while providing real time feedback during a functional cycling task
Bioness
Lightweight and mobile electrical stimulation devices for neuromuscular re-education of upper and lower extremities to regain lost function
X-Cite
12 lead electrical stimulation clinical station that integrates task-specific functional activities to promote neurologic recovery
LiteGait
Bodyweight support system designed for over-ground or over-treadmill walking and functional activity training
FEES
On-site fiber-optic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing utilized to assess and treat swallowing difficulties