Team structure for Inpatient Rehabilitation treatment teams

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We are having difficulty organizing the team structure in our 40 bed acute rehab

facility.

We want to promote cohesiveness between therapy, nursing, case manager, and MD.

Our goal is to improve team communication and enhance patient centered care.

Structuring treatment delivery by specific interdiciplinary teams of clinicians

seems to be the best way however because of the nature of the departments, their

size, and their schedules we are having little success.

Currently: we have in place 7 PT/OT teams assigned to room blocks based on

nursing assignment to those rooms. This has had an inconsistent affect because

of nurses schedules changing the consistency to assigned rooms and patient room

changes secondary to medical and personal reasons.

Can anyone share successes within their facilities with team oriented patient

care?

Thank you,

Debbie