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New Rehabilitation Center to Open in April

Andy Holtebeck, Director of Rehabilitation Services

Posted: April 1, 2007

With the opening of Columbia St. Mary’s new outpatient center at Lakeside Commons in Mequon, the hospital’s orthopaedic rehabilitation services anticipates increasing the volume of patients it currently serves in the Ozaukee County area.

Traditionally, the Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Ozaukee has provided inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services for people who have problems with muscles, joints or bones following injury, surgery or disease. But space constraints at the expanding Ozaukee Hospital led Columbia St. Mary’s rehabilitation services to begin exploring offsite clinic locations last year. As a result, the hospital will accommodate the increasing need for rehabilitation services at Lakeside Commons, 11725 N. Port Washington Road, set to open in late April. The center also will feature a Sleep Center and Wound Healing Center.

Although Columbia St. Mary’s Ozaukee Hospital will continue to house inpatient rehabilitation services and some outpatient services, the new rehabilitation clinic will be equipped to handle adult and pediatric patients with a variety of injuries and conditions, such as neurological conditions, arthritis, diseases of the spine, multiple trauma, amputation, joint replacement surgery, sports injuries, and other orthopaedic conditions.

In addition to adult and pediatric rehabilitation services, Lakeside Commons will house continence services, a new program offered through the hospital’s Women’s Center.

The Continence Services program will consist of a specialized team dedicated to evaluating incontinence issues and developing individual treatment plans. A variety of treatment options will be available including behavioral approaches, bladder training and biofeedback – a treatment option whereby patients learn the correct techniques for exercising and toning the pelvic muscle.

The adult rehabilitation staff will consist of a team of health care professionals, made up of physical, occupational and speech therapists, who will develop individual treatment plans designed to restore or improve patients’ normal level of function in work and daily activities. The pediatric physical therapist will rotate among Lakeside Commons and Columbia St. Mary’s Port Washington and Germantown clinics.

Because of its central location in Ozaukee County, the new rehabilitation clinic is expected to draw a new client base that previously may have sought rehab services through other area health care systems. Lakeside Commons offers the ideal outpatient setting for Columbia St. Mary’s to continue providing coordinated and comprehensive rehabilitation services on an outpatient basis.

Andy Holtebeck
Director of Rehabilitation Services
Columbia St. Mary’s
262-243-7444

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