Services
Cobble Hill Health Center offers a complete range of innovative medical, nursing and rehabilitation services for people of all ages. We are known for our diligent and loving patient care.
Our Services Areas Include:
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Subacute Care Unit
When the resident is ready to leave the hospital but is not ready to resume independent living, Cobble Hill Health Center’s subacute unit is the bridge to complete health. After admission, residents are evaluated by a physician and other members of the subacute team.
A comprehensive care plan is designed to ensure a quick and complete recovery, incorporating rehabilitation, psychological support and education for the resident and family. Nursing and medical care are outstanding and the care plan is reviewed and updated regularly.
Our goal is to restore our residents’ independence and help them return to community living. Access to the latest medical interventions and a skilled nursing staff help that happen.
While you are at Cobble Hill Health Center, caring social workers create discharge plans and offer ongoing support and counseling.
When the time comes to return home, our social work team will assist in arranging the services you need at home, such as home health aides, adaptive equipment and care management. Through the comprehensive services we offer through Cobble Hill Lifecare, including Your Choice at Home, our certified home health agency, and LifeCare Plus, our care coordination program, our discharge team can ensure that you will have a seamless transition back to your home.
We Provide
- Post Surgical Care
- Wound Care
- Respiratory / Tracheostomy Care
- Pain Management
- IV Therapy / IV Antibiotics
- Rehabilitative Therapy
- Therapeutic Recreation
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech Therapy
- Social Work Counseling
- Emotional Support
We Treat
- Stroke or heart attack requiring rehabilitation
- Hip fracture
- Burns
- Surgical residents, i.e. colostomy, hip or knee replacement, amputation or multiple fractures
- Complex wound care
- Recovery from invasive heart procedures
- Cancer treatment
What is more important to quality of life than the ability to function independently? Getting better means re-establishing the ability to move with ease, communicate, care for yourself, return to work.
At Cobble Hill Health Center’s Rehabilitation Institute, our goal is to restore residents’ function and the abilities they had prior to the onset of illness, injury or trauma. Providing skillful and compassionate care is our main objective.
Facilitating Admissions
The courteous and streamlined admission process at Cobble Hill Health Center guarantees that within 24 hours of referral, residents can be resting comfortably in their room. With a full-time nurse on duty for evaluation and an experienced financial coordinator familiar with Medicaid, Medicare and many large HMO’s, a resident can be admitted to Cobble Hill’s Rehabilitation Institute quickly and efficiently, even on weekends and evenings. Medicaid applications can be processed and on-site resident assessments can be arranged.
Rehabilitation Institute
The Best Part is Going Home
Our interdisciplinary team recommendations and in-facility assessments by home-care nurses prior to discharge, ensure safe and timely discharges to home care and the community. Adaptive devices, such as walkers, commodes, wheelchairs and canes are provided. Social workers develop strong lines of communication with families and follow-up once residents are released.
Through the comprehensive services we offer through Cobble Hill Lifecare, including Your Choice at Home, our certified home health agency, LifeCare Plus, and our care coordination program, our discharge team can ensure that you will have a seamless transition back to your home.
On-Site Specialties:
- Orthopedic
- Neurological
- Rehabilitative Medicine
- Vascular
- Ear, Nose and Throat
- Pain Management
- Dental
- Ophthalmology/Optometry
- Podiatry
- I.V. Antibiotics
- Wound Care
- Restorative Feeding Program /Artificial Nutritional Hydration
- Tracheostomy Care
- Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapies
- Rehabilitation Gym
- Whirlpool
- Cybex Columns
- Kinetrons
- Fully-equipped Apartment for Daily Living Training
Conditions We Treat:
- Stroke / CVA
- Post Cardiac
- Fractures
- Amputation
- Knee Replacement
- Trauma
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Aphasia
- Dysphagia
- Burns
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Cardiac rehabilitation at Cobble Hill Health Center is designed to meet the physical, emotional, and educational needs of people recovering from a cardiac condition. The ultimate goal of cardiac rehab is to return the resident to an active, healthier life through exercise and lifestyle changes.
What to Expect
A personal exercise program will be developed based on the resident’s medical needs, abilities, and goals. The exercise classes are fun, safely challenging and well-structured. A rehabilitation therapist will closely monitor the resident’s vital signs while exercising using a treadmill, upper and lower body ergosizers, stair-climbing exercise machine and free weights.
Everyone with heart disease, regardless of age, sex or race can benefit from some type of cardiac rehab. No one is too old or too young.
Educational and lifestyle management classes are offered on an ongoing basis in:
- Heart health
- Healthy eating
- Cardiac medications
- Blood pressure management
- Strength training
- Stress relief
Get the Most out of Cardiac Rehab
Plan.
Work with the healthcare team to design a personalized plan to reduce cardiac risks and meet that resident’s needs.
Communicate.
Ask questions. Report changes in feelings (emotional) or physical symptoms to doctors, nurses, rehab therapists and social workers.
Take Charge of Recovery.
A new healthy lifestyle is good for the heart. Patients who take responsibility for their own recovery, recover more quickly than those who do not.
Our Team
- Cardiologist and /or heart surgeon, unit doctor, family doctor
- Unit nurses
- Rehabilitation therapists
- Social workers
- Respiratory therapists
- Dieticians
- Recreation therapists
Who Benefits?
Patients recovering from:
- Heart surgery
- A heart attack
- A cardiac intervention procedure such as angioplasty, stent placement, etc.
- A heart transplant
Benefits of Cardiac Rehab
- Feel better faster
- Get stronger
- Manage stress
- Reduce the risk of future heart problems
- Live a longer and healthier life
Palliative Care
Cobble Hill Health Center provides treatment that enhances comfort and the quality of an individual’s life during the last phase of life. Our Palliative Care Program is a philosophy of care that accepts dying as a natural part of life. When death is inevitable, palliative care seeks neither to hasten nor postpone it.
At the center of palliative care is the belief that each of us has the right to die pain-free and with dignity, and that our families will receive the necessary support to allow us to do so.
We offer a Palliative Care Program designed to ease the outcome of a terminal diagnosis by providing relief from distressing symptoms, by providing pain management therapy and by focused treatment so the resident is kept as comfortable as possible. An interdisciplinary team gives residents and families living with a life-threatening or terminal illness, care that is focused on alleviating suffering and promoting quality of life. Major concerns are pain and symptom management, information sharing and advance care planning, psychosocial and spiritual support, and coordination of care.
At Cobble Hill, the resident’s needs are assessed and all treatment options are explored and evaluated in the context of the individual’s values and symptoms. Our trained staff is sensitive to the resident’s choices and decisions regarding the course of care.
Why Palliative Care?
Unique physical, emotional, spiritual, social and financial needs occur during the final phases of life-limiting illness. Cobble Hill’s Palliative Care Team is comprised of experienced, skilled specialists who work with the attending physician and family to develop care which meets the resident/family needs and wishes. The focus is on caring, not curing.
Who Uses Palliative Care?
Palliative Care serves persons of any age with any life-limiting illness. Among the illnesses our residents have had are:
- Cancer
- Cardiac disease
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Renal disease
- Neurological illnesses
- Lou Gehrig’s disease
- Cirrhosis.
What Is Palliative Care?
Patients recovering from:
Cobble Hill Health Center’s Palliative Care Services provide medical care and emotional and spiritual support to people and their families who face life-limiting illness.
- A compassionate approach to care that helps people with serious illness live life fully, maintain their dignity and keep personal control over their lives. Available to anyone with an illness whose life expectancy is measured in months, rather than years.
- A family-centered approach that includes, a team of doctors, nurses, social workers, counselors, and trained volunteers who collaboratively focus on the dying resident’s physical, psychological, or spiritual needs.
- A symptom management approach that helps keep the resident as pain-free and lucid as possible, with loved ones nearby until death.
When to Consider Palliative Care
At any time during a life-limiting illness, when curative treatments are no longer effective, palliative care treatments for comfort care are usually indicated.
Cobble Hill’s palliative care philosophy recognizes that our residents have come to consider this facility their home and our staff part of their extended family. Our innovative program allows terminally ill residents to continue to live in a familiar environment while receiving additional services.
Cobble Hill is one of the few skilled nursing facilities in New York City to offer Palliative Care. To discuss a referral, obtain additional information, or arrange for a tour, please contact the Director of Admissions at 718-855-6789 extension 110.
All services are covered by Medicare, Medicaid & most managed care contracts. We also accept private pay.
Skilled Nursing In A Loving, Home-like Atmosphere
When a loved one can no longer remain at home, Cobble Hill Health Center is the home-like alternative. We are focused on the total picture. We know that each resident is an individual with different requirements and needs: the physical, the psychological and the emotional. Our programs are designed to provide optimal care to residents so the quality of life is maintained.
How Do We Do it?
- By carefully selecting staff members who excel professionally and have a compassionate and sensitive understanding of our residents’ lives and needs. Our nurses, nursing aides and support personnel have been with us for decades. They are our most resonant affirmation that we are doing something right. When their loved ones need long-term care they bring them to Cobble Hill.
- By providing comfortable rooms in one of Brooklyn’s loveliest neighborhoods (the landmark Cobble Hill area), a variety of nutritious and meticulously prepared meals and a wide assortment of therapeutic recreational activities that ensure a positive quality of life for each resident.
- By implementing a community-based approach which has been at the root of our success. Our facility is like an enclave of love and caring because the community participates in our culturally attuned programming.
Long Term Care
Long-term Care Services
- A medical director, board-certified in geriatrics, who works hand-in-hand with our primary attending physicians
- Access to over 15 different medical specialists
- On-site dental care
- Physical, occupational, and speech therapy evaluation and treatment
- Licensed hair dresser and manicurist
- Library with large-print books and books on tape
- Supervised, off-site trips
- Cultural entertainment
- Art, drama, music, relaxation therapy
- Intergenerational programs
We Take Good Care of You
- Registered nurses, nurse practitioners, licensed practical nurses and nursing assistants
- Therapeutic recreation specialists who design activity programs
- Pastoral services
- Social work staff who maintain ongoing relationships with residents and family members
- Dietary Department with award-winning, culturally-attuned meal planning
Alzheimer’s Special Care Unit
For over a decade, the Cobble Hill Health Center has led the way in caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. Our comprehensive approach includes program development, research, training, community-based care and caregiver support. We have received the “Best Practices” award and have been recognized by numerous state and national associations. Staff members are specially trained to ensure residents’ comfort and offer increased support to family and friends as the disease progresses, through our palliative care program.
Alzheimer’s Disease Program
People with Alzheimer’s disease benefit from stimulation and individualized care. At the Cobble Hill Health Center, we address the varied needs and interests of residents with Alzheimer’s disease by offering a range of programs. There is no cure for this chronically disabling disease – but people can continue to enjoy life that has meaning at Cobble Hill Health Center.
Residents are engaged in conversation, participate in small-group programs. On a typical day, residents assist in preparing meals, listen to music or play board games. Specially trained staff are available all day interacting with residents and meeting the participants’ diverse social, physical and emotional needs.
Love That Lasts
The best program is only as good as the staff that makes it work. At Cobble Hill, our interdisciplinary staff is professional and compassionate. They are committed to delivering excellent care, and they do! Many of our nurses and nursing assistants have worked at Cobble Hill for over 20 years which fosters a team effort. They know each resident, and how that resident changes over the months and years; it’s reflected in their personalized approach. Increasingly diverse cultures require that staff members speak more than one language, (Spanish, French, Russian, Romanian) and are familiar with a wide range of customs, cuisines and continents.
Caring For Caregivers
At Cobble Hill’s Admissions Department you’ll find caring professionals to assist you during this stressful time. Whether it’s arranging a tour of our program or providing you with financial and insurance information, our trained staff will make things go smoothly.
“Concierge Care”
To make the transition from home to facility smooth, our concierges — experienced staff members trained to provide personal, one on one support during the first few weeks following admission —ensure that residents are adjusting well to their new environment and that issues are addressed in a timely manner. Throughout the year, educational seminars and special events for caregivers address questions and concerns.
Reliable, dignified care in your home.
You can remain at home and be safe, have companionship, and accomplish the tasks of daily living. We promote independence, dignity, and safety… all while keeping the special feeling of staying in your own home.
Whom we serve:
– Elderly and chronically ill people
– People living in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan
Community-based staff meets your cultural needs
We hire from within the community we serve. This makes us well-equipped to meet the diverse ethnic, religious, and cultural demands of the population in New York.
