Patient’s Age: 75-years-old
Admission Date: 05/22/2020
Admitted From: Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center
Discharge Date: 06/24/2020
Discharged To: Home
Length of Stay: 33 Days
Reason for Stay: Femoral Neck Fracture
How did this patient hear about Jupiter Rehabilitation? Hospital social worker

Details of experience:
Joan’s story starts in the very early morning of May 19, 2020. She got up around 2:00 a.m. and headed to the kitchen to get herself something to drink. As she was walking into the kitchen, she tripped and fell. Joan tried to get up but wasn’t able to, she called out for her husband to come and help her. He was able to get her up and into a chair, where she ended up spending the rest of the night. When she woke up later in the morning with a lot of pain on her right hip to her groin. Her husband called 911 because she was not able to get up off the chair and was in excruciating pain.

Joan arrived at Palm Beach Medical Center on May 19, 2020. She underwent surgery to fix the fracture she sustained in the fall. Three days later she was released and she arrived at Jupiter Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center on May 22, 2020. She was very excited to come to our community and begin her therapy.

Upon her admission, Joan needed extensive assistance with transferring, walking, self-care management; such as: using the restroom, bathing, and hygiene. Over the next four weeks, Joan worked hard and looked forward to physical and occupational therapy sessions. She was always ready to work with our staff and listen to what they instructed her to do; she even completed some therapy exercises that she was taught on her own to help strengthen her legs.

All her enthusiasm paid off, she was able to perform transfers and walk with modified supervision and was able to do all her activities of daily living independently with supervision with showering. She was able to return back home to her husband on June 24, 2020.

Joan really enjoyed her time here and loved the staff and how helpful and caring they were. She said, “if I ever need to go back to rehab, I’ll be coming back to Jupiter Rehab!” Team Jupiter wishes Joan all the best!

Patient’s Age: 78-years-old
Admission Date: 04/07/2020 
Admitted From: Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center
Discharge Date: 05/01/2020
Discharged To: Home
Length of Stay: 23 Days
Reason for Stay: Weakness
How did this patient hear about Jupiter Rehabilitation? Previous patient in 2018 and in 2020.

Details of experience:
Brooks S., unfortunately, returned to us shortly after he was discharged home in March. After he returned home he was very happy and succeeding in his independence. After about a week he shared that he began to feel ill and was unaware as to what could have been causing his fatigue and weakness. Brooks then collapsed in his bathroom and his wife quickly called 911 to rush him to the nearest hospital.

Brooks was taken to Palm Beach Medical Center on April 3, 2020. Upon arrival, they discovered that he was extremely dehydrated and was hyponatremic (his sodium levels were low). He was admitted and kept there until April 6, 2020, once they were able to stabilize his sodium levels.

He arrived back here at Jupiter Rehabilitation on April 7, 2020. Our team was so surprised to see him and welcomed him with open arms. The team began building a comprehensive care plan based on his clinical notes from the hospital. The team implemented an educational protocol to continue advising Brooks of proper hydration and ensured labs to ensure that his levels would remain at optimal levels.

He required detailed training in both physical and occupational therapy to support his activities of daily living. Brooks also required significant levels of strength building to return him to his health when he first discharged. Even though he was only home for a short time, his physical capabilities and stamina had decreased significantly due to being immobile.

Our therapy team worked alongside Brooks to support his breathing, standing balance, and mobility around a simulated home-like environment. He made great progress, as the team expected upon admission, and was beginning to plan his return back home. He enjoyed conversations with his current and former roommate, who had grown to be very fond of. The positive environment greatly contributed to his ability to build upon his foundations and progress rather quickly.

Our social services team connected with Brooks and his wife throughout his stay and was proud to finally schedule his anticipated discharge and return home. Brooks discharged from our community on May 24th stronger and more confident than he had been since his last visit with us here at Jupiter Rehabilitation. Educational resources on nutrition and hydration were also provided to prevent any opportunity for dehydration once returning home, especially during the month of May here in South Florida. We wish Brooks the very best of health and happiness and are so proud of the progress he has made with us here in our community.

Patient’s Age: 85-years-old
Admission Date: 03/06/2020 
Admitted From: Jupiter Medical
Discharge Date: 04/01/2020
Discharged To: Home
Length of Stay: 26 Days
Reason for Stay: Severe UTI
How did this patient hear about Jupiter Rehabilitation? Case manager from Jupiter Medical Center

Details of experience:
Robert P.’s story begins in January 2020. Following a coronary artery bypass surgery and back surgery, he was discharged to a local Rehabilitation Center. While he was there, he suffered a stroke that affected his left side and continued his rehabilitation care. Following discharge from rehabilitation services, he was transferred to respite care, where he developed a severe UTI, a productive cough, and a fever. With the development of his new symptoms, Robert was readmitted to Jupiter Medical Center on March 2, 2020. After only four days in the hospital, he was discharged to Jupiter Rehabilitation and arrived on March 6, 2020.

When he arrived, Robert needed maximum assistance with all his daily living and mobility activities. It took a lot of hard work and perseverance from Robert, but he was able to make significant progress toward his long term goals. Upon discharge on April 1, 2020, Robert was able to perform all activities of daily living and functional mobility with supervision only, which allowed him to return to assisted living.

Mr. P. truly made the most of his time at Jupiter Rehabilitation and Healthcare. He loved going to therapy and working with Jupiter’s therapists, especially Renee. Robert shared, “Therapy always makes my day, they are so nice and make sure I am always doing okay. I also appreciate how they are always encouraging me and telling me what a great job I am doing, it helped keep me motivated especially on those rough days when I didn’t want to get out of bed.” The team at Jupiter Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center wishes Robert all the best!

Patient’s name: Brooks
Patient’s Age: 78-years-old
Admission Date: 3/7/2020
Admitted From: Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center
Discharge Date: 3/31/2020
Discharged To: Home
Length of Stay: 23 Days
Reason for Stay: Mild aphasia and word-finding difficulties
How did this patient hear about Jupiter Rehabilitation? Stayed here previously in 2018

Details of experience:
Following the start of a new diuretic prescribed by a doctor to assist with the swelling of his feet, Brooks began to feel very ill. Fortunately, his wife was savvy in driving him to the nearest Emergency Room, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. He arrived on February 27th, 2020, and following several tests, he was diagnosed with metabolic encephalopathy, respiratory failure, and very low potassium levels in his blood. He was hospitalized for ten days before it was determined he would need further assistance.

Knowing he had previous success with Jupiter Rehabilitation, Brooks decided to admit to Jupiter Rehab again on March 7th, 2020. When he arrived, he required maximum assistance to perform daily living activities, such as bathing, dressing, using the restroom, bed mobility, and transfers.

With the assistance of the Jupiter Rehabilitation team, by discharge Brooks has improved and become able to perform his daily living activities with moderate assistance. He has also improved his mobility with walker assistance from 15 feet to 60 feet. Jupiter Rehab wishes him all the best!

Patient’s Age: 67-years-old
Admission Date: May 7, 2019
Admitted From: Jupiter Medical Center
Discharge Date: January 3, 2020
Discharged To: Home
Length of Stay: 250 Days
Reason for Stay: Hip pain and inability to walk independently
How did this patient hear about Jupiter Rehabilitation? A former patient

Details of experience:
David came to Jupiter Rehabilitation and Healing Center on May 7, 2019 from Jupiter Medical Center. He was suffering from hip pain and could no longer ambulate. Until his hospitalization, his wife was his sole caretaker and it was unclear if she would be able to continue to care for him. David was not sure if he would ever return home.

When David arrived at the community, he was at maximum assistance for transfers and Activities of Daily Living (ADL). For bed mobility, David was at minimum assistance. Unfortunately, David was not able to begin therapy until he was able to receive knee replacement surgery in early December. Once his surgery was completed, David began therapy. When he was ready to return home, he had progressed quite well. David was able to complete his ADLs with minimum assistance and was able to ambulate independently with a rolling walker.

Throughout the course of his stay, David and our staff never gave up. He enjoyed his stay and loved our staff. He shared he was so grateful to them, especially our therapy staff who never inspired him daily and helped him walk again. The team is happy to share that David has been doing well since going home!

Patient’s Age: 89-years-old
Date of Admission: 11/15/2019
Admitted From: La Posada
Discharge Date: 12/31/2019
Discharge To: St. Joseph’s Atria Assisted Living Facility
Length of stay: 45 days
Reason for stay: Hip Fracture.
How did this patient hear about Jupiter Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center? Her daughter discovered Jupiter through an online search.

Details of experience:
Chieko’s story begins all the way back in May of 2019. Chieko suffered her first stroke in May 2019 and it took a lot out of her. Before her stroke, her right side was already compromised and she had a hard time using her right arm. After her stroke, it made her right side even worse and she wasn’t able to move anything on her right side. After her stroke, she was in the hospital doing very well, recovering and was beginning to have the ability to use her right side. After she was discharged home she experienced her first fall in July, 2 months after her stroke. She fell and fractured her shoulder on her right side. She experienced her second fall in September, fracturing her right hip.

After her second fall her doctor, Dr. Nobel, said that she was no longer weight bearing because of her memory and balance and he didn’t want her to further compromise her hip.

When Chieko was released from the hospital she was transferred to a local skilled rehab center. While she was there she declined rapidly, she wasn’t doing well and she was depressed because she was not making any progress. She had lost all her hope that she wasn’t going to get better. Her husband and her daughter had to make the tough decision to place her in hospice care. Where she was currently at, they didn’t specialize in hospice care and only gave her family five days’ notice that she would have to transfer to another community. Her daughter Patricia, was frantically looking for a new community to move her mom too. Through her research, many of the nearest providers were still very far away and somewhat unmanageable to reach for her family. She then called our community and spoke to Dianna, our admissions director, and explained to her the situation. Dianna said that we would be able to help her and that we could enroll Chieko in skilled therapy and that it would help her. Patricia was so relieved that she found us and that our community was down the street from her parents ALF, St. Joseph Atria. She shared that it was a miracle and it was an act from God that she found us.

Chieko arrived at our community on November 16, 2019, on hospice care, she was given a 25 percent chance of survival. When therapy evaluated her she was toe-touch weight-bearing, she needed max assistance for all her activities of daily living and mobility. Her husband Bob came every single day, he encouraged her in therapy and kept her company until after dinner, when his daughter Patricia would come and stay with her until she went to bed. Her family was here every single day, rain or shine, encouraging her and celebrating every milestone. During her stay she celebrated 65 years of marriage with her husband when we found out, our concierge Samantha went out and got them flowers, a balloon, a card that the staff signed and a tiramisu to share. Chieko was so excited and moved by the kind gesture that she couldn’t sleep! She was on skilled therapy for approximately 7 weeks and improved drastically in all aspects where she was able to perform all activities of daily living and mobility at the contact guard level.

Since she has left our community and was able to return to her assisted living community with her husband Bob, Chieko has been thriving and about a week ago she went to see Dr. Nobel and he said that she can now use her walker to help her walk. Her daughter said, “your staff gave my mom hope again.” Team Jupiter is so beyond thrilled that Chieko has been doing so well and that we were able to be a part of her journey to help her get to where she is health-wise! We wish her all the best!

Patient’s Age: 72-years-old
Date of Admission: 09/09/19
Admitted From: Strong Memorial Hospital
Discharge Date: 11/23/19
Discharge To: Home
Length of stay: 74 days
Reason for stay: Therapy after a stroke
How did this patient hear about Jupiter Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center? Her daughter is the Director of Therapy at Jupiter.

Details of experience:
Our journey began on July 21st, while on vacation in Geneseo, New York. Mrs. Dater was found unresponsive in her bed at 10 am. Paramedics responded and took Mrs. Dater to Strong Memorial Hospital. The ride was over 25 minutes long, however, Strong is the trauma center for the area.

Mrs. Dater was put in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit. She was intubated and placed on a respirator that supported 50% of her breathing. They also inserted a Nasogastric tube (NG) to supply nutrients in combination with IV medications and hydration. Mrs. Dater was put into an induced coma. On Day three, doctors put in two shunts in her brain to relieve the pressure in her head from swelling and fluids. During this initial week, Mrs. Dater would occasionally lift her right arm to demonstrate she could hear people and to acknowledge understanding. Mrs. Dater’s brain bleed was on the right side of the brain and caused left-sided hemiparesis, left-sided hemianopsia. Mrs. Dater’s daughter Lisa sat in on the meeting of the doctors, as they rounded on the patients in NICU. Strong is also a teaching hospital for the University of Rochester.

It was on the 5th day that the NICU doctor told Lisa that her mother would probably pass in less than a week. To which her daughter responded, “You have never met my Mother.”

Although she does not remember this time, Sharon responded to yes and no answers by raising her arm or giving a thumbs up to yes and no questions. She also could raise her right leg and wiggle her toes. She would respond to voices. By the sixth day, she was opening her eyes. Also after two or three instances of no heartbeat the doctor’s put in a temporary pacemaker. By the seventh, day one of the shunts was removed. By the ninth day, the other shunt was removed and the pacemaker had kicked in three times. Sharon was given a Mickey Mouse Glove because she kept trying to pull out the trach tubes. She recognized her grandson’s, her sister, her brother, her husband, her best friends (Helen and Fayette), and even her favorite brother-in-law. Two weeks passed and Sharon began sitting in a geriatric chair in a reclined position. Doctors tried to remove the breathing tube and for 23 hours Sharon did great on her own but then her oxygen saturation began to wane, so they performed a tracheostomy. Once in place, this did 20% of the breathing for her, with intermittent times off for her to practice on her own. As the weeks passed, Sharon was able to have ice chips and then pudding and applesauce.

On August 17, Sharon was moved from the NICU to the inhouse therapy floor at Strong Memorial Hospital. She was positioned in a high back wheelchair. She was hoyer lifted from bed to chair to bed and sometimes to the therapy matt. Sharon began eating more foods, mash potatoes, chopped meat, pureed vegetables, and fruits. Sharon increased her time in the wheelchair and sitting balance.

Sharon increased her abilities to speak and to see more items on the left-hand side. She did some standing and weight shifting. By the first week of September, it was apparent that it was time for the Florida girl to come home, much to the chagrin of the hospital. So on September 6, 2019, Sharon’s daughter, Lisa, had to prove to the staff that she could indeed transfer her mother on and off multiple airplanes to get her back to Sunny South Florida. It was this weekend that Sharon really began to feel her legs underneath her. Sharon and Lisa spent the whole weekend working on transfers and standing balance and trunk stability. Then at 4:30 a.m. on September 9th, it was time to leave for the airport… two flights both first-row first class. Then, poof, they were all back in sunny South Florida. This is when Sharon became a member of the Jupiter Rehabilitation Family.

THE FLORIDA DAYS
Upon admission to Jupiter Rehabilitation, Sharon was supervision for eating and hygiene with a setup assist, Bathing required maximal assist for task completion, and dressing was dependent. With a poor for sitting balance during ADL activities. Sharon also had a flaccid arm and leg on the Left side.

Her Barthel Index score was 6/20. The left-arm also had a 10/10 pain secondary to tone and past poor positioning. Sharon required moderate assistance for bed mobility, and totally dependent on transferring with no ambulation. She had a tinetti score of 0/28.

Sharon was on a diet of nectar liquids and mechanical soft solids. She was oriented times three, however upper cognition tasks were very difficult for Sharon to manage. Sharon received PT/OT six times a week times eight weeks, and Speech therapy five times a week times eight weeks. Sharon also had a bunch of assistance from the many friends and family members who were here to support her and help her to be stronger than she ever realized she could be. Sharon progressed from a two-person assist with hemi walker to contact guard with one person and a quad cane. Sharon is able to bathe herself with SBA and set up. Sharon uses a three in one commode in the shower and is able to bathe herself with set up. Sharon is at home now. She lives with her husband, dog, and cat. Her husband John was trained before discharge and is able to assist Sharon with dressing, bathing, and ambulating in the house with a quad cane. Sharon is also able to go up and downstairs with John and likes to take quiet sunset golf cart rides around her community. Although Sharon is still requiring nectar thick liquids she is able to eat just about anything she wants. The left leg has great strength and even though the left arm is not yet functional it is much less painful, and Sharon completes AAROM with the arm daily.

Team Jupiter is so thrilled how well Sharon is doing at home and was honored to be able to help and see her progress and recovery and we wish her all the best!

Age: 72-years-old
Date of Admission: 09/11/19
Admitted From: VA
Discharge Date: 11/12/19
Discharge To: Home
Length of stay: 60 days
Reason for stay: Weakness in legs, was not able to walk or stand.
How did this patient hear about Jupiter Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center? The patient and his wife researched rehabs covered by their insurance and they admired all the reviews they read about our community. The VA also recommended us.

Details of experience:
Gregg’s story begins the day after his 72nd birthday. He was spending his day relaxing at home in his favorite reclining chair watching TV. He got up to use the restroom, and as he was walking his right leg just stopped moving. He panicked and called his wife Patti over to help him to sit down. As the week went by, he just kept getting worse. He went to the VA and they couldn’t find a cause and sent him home. It came to the point that he was no longer able to walk and was confined to bed. He returned to the VA and they performed additional tests, but the results were inconclusive. The doctors weren’t sure what was causing this issue. The neurologist thought it could be a pinched nerve in the spine or spinal neuropathy. The doctors at the VA thought it was a bad reaction due to chemotherapy. In April of this year, he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He was a smoker when he was younger, but the VA indicated it was due to agent orange, used during the Vietnam War, where he served during his time in the Army.

Gregg arrived at Jupiter Rehab on September 11, 2019, from the VA. When he arrived, he was not able to stand or walk on his own. When therapy first assessed him, he required maximum assistance for all of his activities of daily living, such as getting in and out of bed, standing from a wheelchair and walking. Gregg worked hard every single day in therapy that he was named Patient of the Week! After two long months of hard work and dedication to physical and occupational therapy, he progressed to walking 15-20 feet with a rolling walker, and was able to get in and out of bed with minimal assistance and stand up from a wheelchair with minimal to no assistance.

On November 12, 2019, Gregg was discharged home with his wife Patti. It was bittersweet, but it was such a wonderful experience seeing how far he had come from when he first arrived. Seeing all his hard work and determination pay-off and how proud he was of his accomplishments was the best feeling. “I am very pleased with the therapy I received here. The therapy staff is great and very good at their jobs. I enjoyed my stay, the food, and the staff.” Team Jupiter wishes Gregg all the best!

Age: 89-years-old
Date of Admission: 09/11/19
Admitted From: Jupiter Medical Center
Discharge Date: 10/12/19
Discharge To: Home with daughter
Length of stay: 30 days
Reason for stay: For a fractured pelvis, fractured left elbow and a sprained left ankle.
How did this patient hear about Jupiter Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center? Her daughter found us and our hospital liaison Pauline spoke with Elaine and her family about our community. 

Details of experience:
Elaine’s story started Labor Day weekend. She lives in Lake Worth and her daughter went to pick her up so that she could spend Labor Day with the family. After her daughter picked her up, they went to the Jupiter Medical thrift store to do some shopping. Her grandson was with them and when he got out of the car, he went running to the front door and his mom went after him, which left Elaine alone. As Elaine was getting out of the car and started to walk towards the store the next thing she knew she was on the floor of the parking lot. Everyone came rushing out at once to make sure she was okay. Her daughter called 911 and that was the last thing Elaine remembers. She couldn’t remember how she fell or what caused her to fall and she was in and out of consciousness until she arrived at the ER.

She was admitted into Jupiter Medical Center on September 4, 2019, for a fractured pelvis, fractured left elbow, and a sprained left ankle. After a week at the hospital recovering from her injuries, she was brought to our community on September 11, 2019. When she arrived at our community, she was maximum assist for all her activities of daily living and non-weight bearing for her left arm and weight-bearing as tolerated for her left leg. Elaine worked very hard in therapy everyday and loved working with our team. Even though she worked hard in therapy she still felt that she was not making progress and would never go home but we encouraged her every day and when it came time for her to go home she was modified independently for all her activities of daily living and her mobility.

Elaine was so happy to go home but also very sad since she loved our staff and enjoyed her time here while she was recovering. “Therapy did such a wonderful job, Renee, Melissa, and Bryanna are very kind and uplifting. I also enjoyed the food immensely, the kitchen staff does a great job. The CNAs who took care of me on a daily basis was so helpful and kind. Overall, my experience here was wonderful and helpful to my recovery.” Team Jupiter enjoyed having Elaine and being able to help her recover and see her go home, we wish her all the best!