Walnut Creek Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Walnut Creek, California that provides short- and long-term nursing care and social services. The center accepts patients with complex medical issues and offers a safe, compassionate environment that encourages dignity and independence.
The facility's comprehensive rehabilitation program includes physical, occupational, and speech therapy services provided seven days a week. Staff have experience caring for people recovering from cardiac, orthopedic, neurological, and other conditions. Upon admission, the team consults with physicians to create personalized therapy programs tailored to each patient's needs and goals, with the aim of helping patients achieve maximum capability and return home as quickly as possible.
The center offers a sub-acute care program for residents recently released from the hospital, with a focus on reducing readmission risk and weaning patients off tracheostomy and ventilators. The facility employs nurses and respiratory therapists available 24 hours a day, along with therapists, social workers, dietitians, case managers, an internal medicine physician who visits every other day, and a pulmonologist who visits weekly.
Daily activities, an in-house beautician and barber, and pet visits are offered alongside delicious, healthy food including a lunchtime soup and salad bar. The facility is designed to serve medically fragile residents who require specialized services and support for their recuperation and quality of life.