Community Rehabilitation

Community Rehabilitation (CR) provides multidisciplinary rehabilitative therapy to patients aged 16 years and above living in the designated EMHS / RPBG - Bentley Health Service CR postcode catchment area.

The multidisciplinary team aims to provide a coordinated patient-centred service to patients with an impairment, activity limitation or restriction due to a health condition or following an injury.

The team includes:

  • clinical psychology
  • dietetics
  • medical
  • nursing
  • occupational therapy
  • physiotherapy
  • speech pathology
  • social work.

CR services are assessment based, goal oriented and time-limited. The services are usually delivered in the outpatient setting in D Block, however they may also be delivered in the patients’ home (for example a Falls Specialist, or OT home visit to assess access/equipment), or other community location appropriate to the patients’ goals.

The core rehabilitation services offered include:

  • amputee rehabilitation
  • cardiac rehabilitation
  • falls and mobility
  • general deconditioning
  • geriatric rehabilitation
  • neurological rehabilitation
  • Parkinson's Disease services
  • pulmonary rehabilitation
  • rheumatology rehabilitation
  • spinal rehabilitation
  • stroke rehabilitation
  • trauma and orthopaedic rehabilitation.
Last Updated: 18/03/2022