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Burnie Campus

 

Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Service - Burnie Campus

About Our Program

The North West Regional Hospital’s 8-bed Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Service provides an interdisciplinary team approach, with highly skilled, friendly staff to help patients focus on their daily therapy goals. Our inpatient service is designed to meet the special physical and cognitive rehabilitative needs of individuals who have experienced a disabling injury, illness or surgery. Patients are provided with support and guidance so they can regain their confidence and a high level of independence.

Our mission is to achieve optimum function and quality of life for patients and their carers within a supportive team environment.

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To be admitted to the service, patients must:

• Be medically stable (completed their acute episode of care)
• Require intervention by at least two allied health disciplines
• Be motivated to participate in the program and provide consent to participate
• Understand that should rehabilitation be deemed to have achieved the best outcome, it may be necessary for them to return to the referring source or transfer to another ward until discharge

Please see our Rehabilitation Admission and Discharge Policy and Guidelines

A referral must be completed by the initiating source:
External referrals
Internal referrals (Burnie Campus only)

Our external referral proforma

In the first instance referrals must be forwarded to: CNM Surgical Central – fax number 03 6430 6561.