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How We Provide Care
At each of our facilities, we take a team approach to care. Our core team includes nurses and nursing assistants, rehab therapists, social workers, activities staff, a dietitian, and our medical director.
Our care is patient-centered, taking your strengths, needs, abilities—and your goals—into account. From all that information, we create a personalized care plan. The focus is on meeting your goals, accommodating your preferences, and providing top-notch service.
We offer a wide variety of care and services to meet many needs. Click on the care or service below to learn more about it:
Rehabilitation
Pilgrim Rehab was the first nursing home in Massachusetts to offer rehabilitation services. That’s experience you can really benefit from.
Our rehab team consists of physical, occupational, and speech therapists—many with master’s degrees—and specially trained therapy assistants. They’re all licensed professionals dedicated to helping you regain strength, mobility, and independence; achieve the best possible outcome; and return to the activities you most enjoy.
We offer therapy services up to seven days a week, as ordered by your physician. Our rehab therapists will design a rehab plan, in accordance with your physician’s orders, to help you reach your goals. And they’ll work as tirelessly as you do to help you achieve those goals.
Our rehabilitation program provides care to meet a wide range of needs:
• Orthopedic rehab for fractures, joint replacement, and degenerative joint diseases
• Stroke rehab
• Neurological rehab for progressive conditions like Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease)
• Cardiopulmonary rehab for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), congestive heart failure, and recovery after coronary bypass surgery
• Wound care
• Dysphasia management
When you’re just about ready to go home, you can test your strength and stamina in our “transition apartment.” It’s a separate space in our building that has areas set up like a living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom, and bath. By spending time in our transition apartment, you’ll be able to practice the skills you’ll need once you’re home. Our rehab team will work with you, offering tips that will help make your discharge successful.
Skilled Nursing
Many people come to Pilgrim Rehab to recuperate after a hospital stay or when a chronic condition flares up. For them, we offer a broad range of programs and services, including:
• Cardiac recovery
• Complex medical care
• Diabetes management
• Enteral therapy
• IV therapy
• Hospice care
• Pain management
• Stroke recovery
• Wound care
We also arrange for these services, as needed:
• Audiology
• Dental
• Dialysis
• Mental health
• Optometry
• Podiatry
• X-ray and lab
Long-Term Care
Our long-term residents are the heart and soul of our facility. For them, Pilgrim Rehab is their home, and our staff become part of their family. We provide our residents with around-the-clock nursing care and supervision, help with activities of daily living (dressing, bathing, eating), and serve them nutritious meals and snacks. They also have access to rehab and the other specialized services we offer, as their condition requires.
We have several important goals for our long-term residents. First, we work to keep them as independent as possible for as long as possible. The more they can do for themselves, the better their quality of life. Second, we encourage them to be as active as possible, participating in as many activities and events as they’re interested in. And third, we help them stay as connected as possible to their community, family, and friends. Even well-behaved pets can visit.
Respite Visits
We also welcome people living at home to stay at Pilgrim Rehab for a respite visit—a brief stay in our facility when their family member or other at-home caregiver is temporarily unavailable. This allows the caregiver to go on vacation, travel for business, recuperate from an illness, or just get some extra support for a while.
A respite stay includes all the services and amenities available to our long-term residents: a safe, friendly place to stay; high-quality, 24-hour nursing care and supervision; assistance with activities of daily living; meals and snacks; and participation in any planned activities of interest to them. A respite stay not only gives the at-home caregiver peace of mind, it can be a nice change of pace for the loved one.
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