Rehabilitation Admissions – Via Dezza Office

Neurological Rehabilitation

Activities of the Operational Unit

THEOperational Unit welcomes in Ordinary Hospitalization mainly patients transferred directly from hospital facilities – in particular from Neurology, Neurosurgery, Intensive Care, Medicine Department – and a selection of home patients, sent by General practitioners o Outpatient Specialist Doctors, which require a intensive rehabilitation program.

In line with what is established by the Regional legislation on the "Reorganization of the Rehabilitation Network” of December 2004 and the Ministerial Guidelines As of February 2011 the main pathologies treated are:

injuries of the Central nervous system of vascular nature: after-effects of ischemic stroke o hemorrhagic, multi-infarct encephalopathy
neurodegenerative diseases: Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism, motor neuron diseases
diseases demyelinating (Multiple Sclerosis)
after-effects of trauma: cranial and spinal cord injuries
spinal cord injuries
after-effects of operations neurosurgery
pathologies of Peripheral Nervous System (dysimmune, toxic-metabolic and inflammatory neuropathies)
vegetative states of traumatic and non-traumatic origin (severe acquired brain injuries)

The Operating Unit is divided into four hospitalisation floors and has 110 NHS accredited bedsPatients are accommodated in one-, two-, or three-bed rooms, each with a private bathroom and TV.

Rehabilitation Approach

The approach offered to the patient is that of bio-psycho-social, aimed at managing the rehabilitation complexity through the solution of problems inherent not only to the biological sphere of the patient, but also to the socio-environmental, cultural, emotional and relational spheres. It is implemented by a multi-specialist team made up of professionals who prepare and implement the project and rehabilitation programs together with the patient and his family entourage.

Multidisciplinary Team

Therehabilitation team, coordinated by the Department Director, is composed of:

Specialist doctors from different disciplines (Physiatry, Neurology, Infectious Diseases, Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Internal Medicine)
Neuropsychologists
Physiotherapists
Occupational Therapists
nurses
Social worker

La interdisciplinary management avoids sectoral approaches to the patient and allows the integration of individual skills within the common perspective of the functional recovery and social reintegration.
Furthermore, the presence of multiple internal diagnostic and therapeutic-assistance services guarantees each patient a integrated care, rehabilitation and therapeutic pathway that can meet the specific care needs of the individual.

Individual Rehabilitation Projects

I Individual Rehabilitation Projects are conducted according to a multidisciplinary approach e interdisciplinary, placing particular emphasis on the integration of the various interventions: fromdiagnostic framework to the subsequent identification of the specific needs, object of the rehabilitation intervention, until the definition of the individual rehabilitation programs aimed at recovering residual skills and reintegrating into social life.

Clinical-Care Pathways

Over the years, increasing attention has been paid to defining, in relation to the main neurological pathologies treated (stroke, Parkinson's disease, dementia syndromes, multiple sclerosis, motor neuron diseases), internal diagnostic and treatment care pathways in accordance with the most recent industry guidelines, in order to guarantee a homogeneous and high-quality clinical-care pathway.

Rehabilitation Intervention Areas

Il individual rehabilitation program, placed within the Individual Rehabilitation Project, defines the specific areas of intervention, the immediate and short-term objectives, the operators involved, the times, the methods of delivery and their verification.
The main areas of intervention of the rehabilitation team are: