- A Home Away From Home.
An ADL - acitivities of daily living - room is the most recent addition to the In-patient Rehabilitation Unit at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center. A private patient room has been converted to a room with a homelike atmosphere. The renovated room includes a regular full-size bed complete with fitted sheets, pillow shams and comforter, a chest of drawers and a recliner—in other words, a little home away from home on the Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit.
Therapists, frustrated with the inability to provide some activities their patients would need to perform at home, requested this addition. They felt when a patient left the unit, they could never be sure that the skills they taught translated well into a real-life setting. Since a regular bed tends to be "cushier" than a hospital bed and does not have rails, getting on and off the bed after a life-changing event such as a stroke, hip fracture or amputation is more difficult than transferring to and from a hospital bed. Patients can also transfer to and from the recliner and perform such housekeeping tasks as washing and folding sheets, ironing, making the bed, sweeping and dusting furniture.
In addition to daily use of the ADL room, a patient can also be housed in the room the last day or two of his or her stay on the unit.
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