Mrs. W: Back to the Grocery!
Mrs. W came to outpatient therapy at Kindred Hospital
Tarrant County
– Fort Worth Southwest on January 28, 2010. She needed physical and
occupational therapy to correct her difficulty in completing tasks. Although Mrs. W had excellent support from her family,
she no longer wanted to rely on them for all her meals and cleaning. She came
to Kindred Hospital’s outpatient rehabilitation to
regain her strength and functional ability to prepare her own meals and do her
own grocery shopping.
When Mrs. W came to Kindred Hospital
she had decreased balance and strength and was unable to stand longer than one
second with supported single leg stance. She was able to transfer with minimal
assistance, but could only ambulate 290 feet with multiple stops. Kindred’s team of rehabilitation
therapists began an aggressive treatment plan for Mrs. W including physical,
occupational and pulmonary rehabilitation. For six weeks she participated in
physical and occupational programs. Upon discharge she was able to transfer
with standby assist and ambulate 490 feet without stopping.
She was able to prepare a meal with assistance only
for setup and push a grocery cart for 20 minutes for about 2000 feet with
multiple stops to simulate a shopping trip to her local grocery store. By early
March Mrs. W and Kindred’s rehabilitation team had accomplished her goals and
she was discharged. Since her discharge, Mrs. W’s son has purchased a recumbent
bicycle so she can continue her exercises at home.
Kindred Hospital Tarrant County – Fort Worth Southwest’s success is apparent in
stories like this as well as in our quality scores – our patients and families
rate our quality of care at 100 percent and 100 percent would recommend
Kindred. Kindred Hospital Tarrant County
– Fort Worth Southwest was named 2009 Hospital of the Year and Quality Excellence Hospital
of the Year in 2009 and 2010 by Kindred’s Hospital Division Awards. Our
hospital is also the four-time recipient of the quarterly Hospital Employee Performance
Program Gold Award. The award, based on excellence in patient care, customer
satisfaction, efficiency and employee satisfaction goes to the hospital in each
region that had the best overall performance during the quarter.