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Physical therapy
Strength, balance and walking, practiced on real stairs, ramps and curbs in our gym.
Medicare Part AVol. 04 · SulphurThe Summer Issue
Short-term rehabilitation · Sulphur, Oklahoma
Strong enough for the stairs at home.
Physical, occupational and speech therapy six days a week, a warm-water pool, and nurses around the clock. Most of our patients go home in two to four weeks.
What sets us apart
Three things patients ask about first
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Warm-water pool therapy
A 92-degree pool with a ramp entry, for joint replacements, back surgery and arthritis.
Included
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Home safety visit before discharge
A therapist visits your house, measures the doorways and tells you which grab bars to buy.
IncludedFrom the administrator
We measure success in front porches.
Nearly everyone who comes to Rock Creek arrives from a hospital in Ada, Ardmore or Oklahoma City: a new knee, a broken hip, a stroke, a long bout of pneumonia. On the first day our therapists ask the same question: what does home look like? Three steps up to the porch, a tub with a high side, a pickup with a tall cab. Then we practice exactly that.
Sulphur has been a place people come to get better for more than a century, back to the old mineral baths downtown. We put a warm-water pool in our therapy wing for the same reason. Water takes the weight off a new joint, and patients take their first unassisted steps there days sooner than they would on dry land.
— Dana Whitebird, administrator
Photo tour
Inside the therapy wing
Sample family reviews
Notes from patients and families
I had a new knee and a ranch to get back to. They had me climbing into a pickup cab in week two. I was feeding cattle by week four.
Mom was scared of the pool. By the end of her first week she was asking for it by name. She walked into her own kitchen nineteen days after her hip surgery.
The therapist came out to our house in Davis and told us to move the rug and raise the recliner four inches. Small things. They made all the difference.
Good to know
Questions, answered
Does Medicare cover a rehab stay here?
Original Medicare Part A covers skilled nursing and rehab for up to 100 days per benefit period after a qualifying inpatient hospital stay, as long as you need daily skilled care. Days 1 to 20 are covered in full; from day 21 there is a daily coinsurance. Medicare Advantage plans set their own rules, so call us and we will check your plan.
Can I choose Rock Creek when I leave the hospital?
Yes. You have the right to choose your rehab provider. Tell your hospital case manager you would like to come here, and call us so we can start the referral the same day.
How long will I stay?
It depends on your surgery or illness and how quickly you get stronger. Most of our patients go home in two to four weeks. We review progress with you and your family every week.
Do I need to know how to swim to use the pool?
No. The pool is chest-deep at most, with a ramp and handrails, and a therapist is in the water with you for every session.
What should I bring?
Comfortable clothes you can exercise in, sturdy shoes with backs, your glasses and hearing aids, and a list of your medications. We do the laundry.
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Find us in Sulphur
- 1415 W Vendome Avenue
Sulphur, OK
Visitor spaces at the main entrance; the covered drop-off is wide enough for a walker and a wheelchair van. - (580) 555-0121
- Text us
- admissions@rockcreek.example
- RockCreekRehab
Tour & office hours
- Tours, every day9a – 6p
- Admissions, Mon – Sat8a – 6p
- Families visitAny time
Have a surgery date? Tour the gym first.
Call Dana or the admissions office and we will walk you through the pool, the gym and a private room, and hold a bed for your discharge day.