{"id":27325,"date":"2015-11-16T11:25:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=27325"},"modified":"2015-11-16T11:25:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:25:41","slug":"pocopson-home-boosts-short-term-rehab-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=27325","title":{"rendered":"Pocopson Home boosts short-term rehab services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1223599\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pocopson-111315-300x231.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1223599\" class=\"wp-image-1223599 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pocopson-111315-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Pocopson-111315\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1223599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">) Chester County Commissioners Michelle Kichline, Terence Farrell and Kathi Cozzone tour a renovated room in Pocopson Home\u2019s expanded short term rehabilitation facility.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>POCOPSON \u2014 Chester County Commissioners Terence Farrell, Kathi Cozzone and Michelle Kichline toured Pocopson Home\u2019s renovated and expanded short term rehabilitation facility this week \u2013 an eight-bed unit for patients requiring short term rehabilitation care. The expanded service, offered in partnership with Apex Rehab Solutions, includes physiatrist care in addition to the expertise of Pocopson\u2019s nursing team, physicians and physical, occupational and speech therapists.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The short-term rehab unit includes two private rooms and three semi-private rooms, and is equipped with a full range of physical therapy apparatus and occupational therapy settings including a full kitchen setting. Additional services include 24-hour registered nurse care, wound care specialists and the ability to accommodate bariatric patients. Transportation services to physician and hospital appointments are also available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe professional skills and resources already offered at Pocopson Home \u2013 from 24-hour nursing care to existing medical transportation services \u2013 made it a somewhat easy decision to add short term rehabilitation services to our portfolio,\u201d commented Jackie McKenna, Administrator at Pocopson Home. \u201cThis has been a good move for the community \u2013 not only are we helping to meet a need for more short term rehabilitation options in Chester County, but we are also generating revenue that helps to offset the overall costs of running the largest skilled nursing facility in the county.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision to develop a short term rehabilitation unit at Pocopson Home was made by the Chester County Board of Commissioners in 2013, based on cost-saving and revenue-enhancing recommendations made by Pocopson administration.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of renovation to develop the short term rehabilitation facility was $270,000. First quarter generated revenue provided a full return on the renovation investment, and conservative total annual revenue is estimated to be between $650,000 and $980,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POCOPSON \u2014 Chester County Commissioners Terence Farrell, Kathi Cozzone and Michelle Kichline toured Pocopson Home\u2019s renovated and expanded short term rehabilitation facility this week \u2013 an eight-bed unit for patients requiring short term rehabilitation care. The expanded service, offered in partnership with Apex Rehab Solutions, includes physiatrist care in addition to the expertise of Pocopson\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,1233,7739],"class_list":["post-27325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chester-county","tag-pocopson-home","tag-rehab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}