Rehabilitation Services

Move better, feel better, and live better thanks to a customized rehabilitation program from Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula’s outpatient Rehabilitation Services. Our expert therapists can help with many medical conditions that make it harder to do things you want or need to do in daily life. You’ll partner with highly trained, specialized, and experienced therapists as you work not just to recover, but thrive.

Therapies and services

Through Community Hospital, you have access to a wide range of rehabilitation services, including:

• Occupational and hand therapy – Teaches you how to more easily do daily tasks, especially after an injury to the shoulder, elbow, wrist, or fingers
• Physical therapy – Improves strength, endurance, balance, and movement and reduces pain
  • Aquatic therapy – Guides you through exercises in a pool with warm water that eases stress on your joints
  • Lymphedema therapy – Reduces swelling due to fluid buildup in your legs or arms
  • Pelvic floor therapy – Increases bowel and bladder control, reduces pain, and can help improve sexual health
  • Vestibular rehabilitation – Relieves dizziness and restores your balance
• Speech/language and swallowing therapy – Rebuilds speaking, thinking, and swallowing skills

Rehabilitation for a health condition

If you experience a serious illness, your doctor may recommend a rehabilitation program designed to treat, manage, or help you recover from that condition. Work toward a healthier, more independent lifestyle with:

• Cardiac rehabilitation – Reduces your risk of heart problems and increases your fitness level
• Neurological rehabilitation – Helps you manage symptoms of conditions involving the brain, spinal cord, or nerves
• Peripheral artery disease (PAD) rehabilitation – Improves your walking ability and decreases leg pain
• Pulmonary rehabilitation – Teaches you how to limit symptoms of lung conditions, safely increase physical activity, and reduce anxiety

Inpatient care

After a serious injury or major surgery, your rehabilitation may start during an overnight stay at Community Hospital. If you have surgery, you’ll receive therapy in the following hours or days to support your initial recovery in the hospital.

If you need more intensive rehabilitation, you may spend a couple of weeks in the hospital’s William R. Lewis, MD, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit (IRU), where you receive three hours of therapy five days a week. Feel confident knowing the IRU is accredited by CARF International, the leading agency recognizing high-quality inpatient rehabilitation programs. Click here for a 360-degree tour of the IRU.

Outpatient care

Whether or not your journey started with inpatient therapy, you’ll likely take part in outpatient rehabilitation to rebuild your abilities. You’ll visit a Montage Health location regularly for therapy appointments and go home afterward.

Nursing home care

If you or a loved one stays at Westland House, our short-term skilled nursing facility, your care plan may include physical, occupational, or speech therapy to improve independence, confidence, and self-reliance.