NCH opens outpatient pediatric physical rehabilitation unit
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (February 3, 2015) - Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) has opened a new pediatric physical rehabilitation services location in Arlington Heights, offering convenient, evening and weekend hours for patients under 18 years old who have physical or learning disabilities due to illness, injury or congenital abnormalities.
Physical therapists and occupational therapists at the new clinic provide one-on-one service to patients. NCH offers outpatient rehabilitation for children with a variety of conditions, including developmental disorders, movement disorders, neurological conditions, orthopedic conditions, sports-related injuries and sensory-integrated dysfunction. The clinic will soon feature speech pathologists who will treat patients with feeding and swallowing disorders and speech-language disorders.
Rehabilitation services also are offered for children of any age with developmental-related diagnoses. The new clinic at 1590 N. Arlington Heights Road has convenient evening and weekend hours:
• Mondays: 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
• Wednesdays: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Fridays: 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• Saturdays: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
"We are excited and energized to begin the work ahead of us - knowing that this effort will serve our patients and community well," NCH Chief Operating Officer Michael Hartke says. "The new unit will create a continuum of care for NCH's young patients who require outpatient physical rehabilitation."
About Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH)
Serving Chicago's northwest suburbs since 1959, NCH is a comprehensive, patient-centered system of care that serves more than 350,000 outpatients each year and more than 20,000 inpatients treated annually at the 496-bed acute care hospital in Arlington Heights. The award-winning hospital holds the prestigious Magnet designation for nursing excellence, is designated as a Primary Stroke Center, earned the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval in 2011, and was awarded the Leapfrog Group's designation as one of the nation's Top Hospitals based on quality and safety criteria. NCH has four Immediate Care locations in the northwest suburbs and operates an Easy Access clinic in Palatine. NCH has a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians, which includes the board-certified primary care doctors and specialists of the NCH Medical Group. These physicians have selected our facility as a place where they want to treat and care for their private patients. For more information, or to find a doctor on the NCH Medical staff, visit www.nch.org.
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