Kalamazoo Functional Rehab Team's mission is to provide high-quality rehabilitation services to clients by providing a multi-disciplinary approach in a community based setting. We strive to work beyond the barriers of clinic walls and address deficits where they affect clients the most - at home or in the community. Our goal is to maximize each client's potential to reintegrate into life using their prior level and helping them rehabilitate and grow beyond their deficits.
KFR Team has been awarded accreditation through the Commission for Accreditation of Rehab Facilities (CARF) for our Home and Community Services serving adults, children and adolescents
CARF International is a global organization whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process and continuous improvement services that center on enhancing the lives of the persons served
KFR Team is proud of being recognized by this prestigious organization as meeting their standards of excellence and we are committed to maintaining these standards through our continued service.
Kalamazoo Functional Rehab Team We work with clients who have orthopedic and neurological injuries (and often both) in addition to emotional/psychological challenges related to trauma.
We work to bring therapy to where the therapy has meaning AND can be most challenging - in the community. Sometimes, that means initially, patient's are seen at home but we will work to challenge patient's to demonstrate rehabilitation initiatives in the community as well where they are challenged outside of a controlled environment which is especially important for our clients with Brain Injuries.
So often, patients involved in traumatic injuries become full-time "patients". We work to re-connect clients with activities they were involved in prior to their accident or find new ways for clients to connect with their community within their abilities. This may involve shopping, attending school, employment, exercises outdoors or in a community gym, and many other activities.
Our Therapists are a small team of contracted individuals chosen specifically based on the specific needs of the patient. Communication approach within the team can be tailored to the needs of each situation and/or the preference of the case manager/provider. In other words, if a client ONLY needs speech therapy, then that is all that needs to be involved.
Our Therapists look at the "whole person" and work closely with the client, their families, as well as their interdisciplinary team. While we are careful to work within our individual scopes of practice, we all communicate with each other as well as physicians and case managers to ensure we "close the gaps" that can be so overwhelming in specialized healthcare.
Our clinicians bring a broad spectrum of ever-growing expertise as we are committed to life-long learning and growth within our specialties. Our main pre-requisite for determining appropriateness of therapy is a client who has functional limitations as a result of their injuries, a desire to work towards goals for improved function and overall medical stability with regards to cardiac/respiratory status. As such, we serve clients of all ages with traumatic brain injury of various degrees of severity, spinal cord injury both complete and incomplete of all levels, post-acute amputation, multi-trauma orthopedic injuries, edema, and wounds. We will work with balance, mobility, activities of daily living, locomotion, dysphagia, speech production, cognitive dysfunction, interpersonal communications/social integration and lifestyle management techniques. Decisions to accept clients will be based on the appropriate staff having availability to serve the client. If the appropriate team member is not available or does not have availability at the time of the referral- Kalamazoo Functional Rehab Team will either offer a waitlist option or facilitate finding alternative therapy options.
We are based on the southwest side of Michigan near the Kalamazoo area. We want to provide the best quality of care we can for you and be able to meet your needs. Please contact us on a case-by-case basis as our travel area varies based on caseload and patient acuity.
Our team recognizes that our clients have very individual needs when it comes to scheduling. Some clients have a very recent injury and there is a multitude of follow-up appointments to work around, and some clients have long standing injury deficits and have established a care routine that works for them. We will work very hard to be flexible with your schedule! Each therapist will schedule individually with the client and will generally schedule one week at a time based on client needs and therapist availability. Often, in the initial visits, there is an adjustment time and the schedule may have more variability. As the treatment plan progresses, scheduling becomes more routine.
We are community-based and may see you at home or in the community. If we see you in the community, please note that our therapists cannot transport patients in their vehicles. We are happy to meet patients/family/caregivers or work with your case manager to determine if transportation services are available.
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