Rehabilitation
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Outcome Information
Miller Dwan's Rehabilitation Center serves patients and their families from a broad region including Northern Minnesota, Northeastern Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In 2006, Miller Dwan's Rehab Center served 474 new patients in the following programs: Stroke, Spinal Cord, Brain Injury, General Comprehensive Rehabilitation, Orthopedic, Pediatric Family Centered program, and Day Rehabilitation program. The average age of persons served was 60 years old of which 61% were male and 39 % were female. The ethnicity of persons served include 91.6 % Caucasian, 4.9 % Native American, 0.4 % Asian, 0.2 % other, 2.3 % unknown, and 0.6 % non-listed . The goal of each program is to provide comprehensive, individualized, goal directed, inpatient rehabilitation services to individuals with physical impairments and activity limitations, within the diagnosis specific team structures. This goal includes assisting these individuals to live within the community at their highest possible level of holistic functioning or to improve the quality of life for individuals who require ongoing care in other facilities, either on a temporary or permanent basis. Miller Dwan's Rehab Center is interested in our efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction of persons we serve. We strive to provide the most comprehensive rehabilitation services to all patients and families we serve, with a goal of having patients return to their own home community whenever possible.
During the calendar year 2006, at Miller Dwan's Rehabilitation Center we used the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI) which gives us a Functional Independent Measure (FIM) as a way of measuring each patient's functional independence. FIMs are measured on a scale of 0-7 with 126 total possible points indicating maximum independence. Areas measured include dressing, grooming, bowel and bladder management, transfers, locomotion (walking or wheelchair), communication, problem
solving, memory, etc. The patient's function is scored at the time of admission, discharge, and approximately 3 to 6 months after discharge. These measures provide us a means to look at what we can do as a program to provide necessary, skillful services to our patient's in assisting them to achieve optimal outcomes. For our Day Rehabilitation Program we use the Functional Independence Measure and Functional Assessment Measure (FIM/FAM) and Community Integration Questionnaire. The FIM/FAM is similar to the FIM but measures additional areas such as car transfers, swallowing, community assess, reading, writing, speech intelligibility, emotional status, adjustments to limitations, employability, orientation, attention, and safety judgement. The Community Integration Questionnaire assesses areas which include, but is not limited to, shopping for groceries, preparing meals, ability to do housework, arranging social events, dealing with finances, and also asks about the number of times a month a person socializes/participates in leisure activities outside of the home. It assesses whether the person is able to do the above independently, needs help from someone else, or someone else does these for the person. This is not an all-inclusive list of available outcome information. For more information you may contact us at the number provided below.
View Outcomes: refer to key
Stroke Program
Spinal Cord Program
Brain Injury Program
Orthopedic Program.
Pediatric Program
Day Rehab Program
DISCLAIMER: Not all patients were used in the outcome data due to the lower volumes of patients and difficulty with placing into categories. Information regarding all patients is available upon request. The outcome report data includes all patients admitted who were 8 years old and older. The Pediatric outcome report includes all patients admitted who were 18 years old and younger. This pediatric outcome data is included on a separate report. Clinical outcomes for pediatric patients between the ages of 8 – 18 years old are included in both pediatric and adult outcome data. However, the adult patient volume has been decreased to reflect the actual number of patients in each program. The Day Rehab patients’ benchmarks are not based on national data. They are based on history and internal discussion. Specifics regarding who, what, when and why selected measures were applied in outcomes are available upon request.
For more information, call Miller-Dwan's Rehabilitation Center at
(218) 786-2850, 800-255-7723, or TTY (218) 720-1950.
Director: Barbara Fulton
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