Programs

The Churchill Program

The Churchill Program operates in a 16-bed acute residential setting. The patient population includes residents requiring 24-hour nursing, residents in the early stages of the post-acute phase of recovery, and residents requiring evaluation for appropriate neurobehavioral treatment. Residents may be dependent in all activities of daily living. Treatment along the post-acute continuum of care may extend from short-term (30-180 days) treatment, to long-term care (greater than 180 days) for persons requiring care for ongoing medical/neurobehavioral interventions.

The goals of the Churchill Program are to deliver effective and efficient treatment for improving neuropsychiatric status, behavioral function, and for promoting participation in daily meaningful productive activities. Meeting these goals allows residents to safely transfer home or to other less restrictive environments. For persons requiring long-term care, the goals include maintenance of the highest level of independent functioning achieved, prevention of recidivism to acute care, and promotion of quality of life through participation in meaningful daily and leisure activities.


Services provided by the Churchill Program may include

• 24-hour staff

• 24-hour nursing supervision

• Neuromedical management

• Behavioral management

• Living skills training

• Physical therapy

• Occupational therapy

• Speech therapy

• Neuropsychological evaluations

• Clinical psychological evaluation and therapy

• Vocational assessments and programming

• Educational assessments and programming

• Individual case management

• Transportation (local)

• Support groups

• Community re-training

• Cognitive re-training: money management, memory and problem solving
  
  

Admission  criteria

Most admissions to Touchtone are made to the Churchill. Level of care indicators for admissions to Churchill program may include:

• Must be at least 16.5 years of age

• Nursing intervention requiring at least 30 minutes per day, including medication administration and neuromedical baseline observations.

• Cases requiring formal consultation with attending physician equal to or greater than two times per month.

• Formal rehabilitation therapies necessary upon admission, or greater than or equal to two concurrent therapies in two or more discipline areas.

• Part-time to full time supervision requirements.

• May require total assistance on all measures of self-care, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, transfers and locomotion.

Residents may be transferred to the Somerset, Genesis or Community-Based Living Rehabilitation programs  are based on the demonstrated need for another level of care  in accordance with admission criteria for those programs.