Rehabilitation Services at Our Hospital

Rehabilitation Services at Our Hospital support patients after illness, injury, surgery, stroke, heart disease, or hospitalization. Walking, eating, speaking, dressing, and returning home can suddenly become difficult. Therefore, our team helps each patient regain function, confidence, and a meaningful daily life.

At Kano General Hospital, rehabilitation is not limited to exercise. It also supports safe discharge, daily independence, family life, and community living. In addition, our therapists work closely with physicians, nurses, dietitians, and social workers.

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Rehabilitation Services at Our Hospital: Individualized Programs

Each patient receives a rehabilitation plan suited to their condition and goals. Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, and Speech-Language-Hearing Therapists work together. As a result, patients can receive care that matches their stage of recovery.

We provide rehabilitation 365 days a year. First, we support recovery during hospitalization. Next, we prepare patients for life after discharge. After that, home-visit rehabilitation can help patients continue therapy in their own community.

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Facility Certification Standards

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Rehabilitation Services at Our Hospital: Department Initiatives

Training Rehabilitation Specialists

Our rehabilitation staff continue to improve their knowledge and skills. In addition, senior staff support younger therapists through daily guidance, case review, and clinical education.

This approach helps our team provide safer care. It also helps each therapist grow with confidence.

Multidisciplinary Team Rehabilitation

A rehabilitation physician leads the team. Nurses, dietitians, social workers, and therapists also take part. Together, they review each patient’s condition and support the best possible recovery.

Family Caregiving Instruction and Pre-Discharge Support

Before discharge, we help families prepare for care at home. For example, we provide caregiving instruction, home visit guidance, and community outing practice. Therefore, patients and families can return home with greater confidence.

Community Collaboration

Our staff join community care conferences and local meetings. Also, we work with community physicians, nurses, care managers, and welfare professionals. This cooperation connects hospital care with life after discharge.

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Physical Therapy in Rehabilitation Services at Our Hospital

Physical therapy helps restore basic movement. These movements include rolling over, sitting up, standing, walking, and transferring. As a result, patients can improve safety and independence.

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Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy supports daily life. It also helps patients rebuild their roles at home, work, and in society. For example, therapy may focus on dressing, bathing, housework, hobbies, and upper limb function.

Mind and body are both important. Therefore, our occupational therapists support each patient as a whole person.

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Speech-Language-Hearing Therapy

Speech-language-hearing therapy supports communication and swallowing. We assess and train patients with aphasia, dysarthria, higher brain dysfunction, and dysphagia.

In addition, our therapists work with physicians, nurses, and dietitians. Specialized evaluations, such as videofluoroscopic swallowing studies, may also be used.

Through this care, patients can improve safety, nutrition, communication, and quality of daily life.

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Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiac rehabilitation supports patients after myocardial infarction, heart failure, cardiac surgery, and other heart conditions. Safety is our first priority. Therefore, we monitor heart rate, blood pressure, symptoms, and exercise tolerance.

Exercise therapy helps patients rebuild strength and fitness. It also supports recurrence prevention and better daily life. In addition, we help patients create safe exercise habits that can continue at home.

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Home-Visit Rehabilitation Services at Our Hospital

Home-visit rehabilitation helps patients continue therapy after discharge. It supports safe life in a familiar home and community. Also, it helps prevent functional decline.

Services may include exercise guidance, movement training, and advice on home environment changes. As a result, hospital-based recovery can connect more smoothly to daily life at home.

Service Area

Kita Ward and Miyakojima Ward, Osaka City

How to Get Started

Please first consult your assigned care manager.

Your Care Manager　☞　Service Agreement for Home-Visit Rehabilitation　☞　Home-Visit Rehabilitation Begins

Contact for Home-Visit Rehabilitation

For Prospective Employees | Rehabilitation Services at Our Hospital

Not Just Healing—Supporting the Patient’s Entire Life

The Kano General Hospital Rehabilitation Department offers broad clinical experience. Staff can learn acute care, recovery-phase care, and home-based care in one connected setting.

Illness or injury can take away ordinary life. For example, patients may struggle to walk, eat, speak, return to work, or live at home.

Our focus is not only function. Instead, we look at the life that comes after recovery.

Staff learn full-body management, risk assessment, functional recovery, discharge support, and community-based care. As a result, they can understand rehabilitation as a continuous process.

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Features of Rehabilitation Services at Our Hospital

Continuous Clinical Experience from Acute Care to Home-Based Care

At our hospital, therapists do not see care as separate phases only. Instead, they view each patient’s progress from a long-term perspective.

This process helps therapists understand why each intervention matters. It also helps them connect daily treatment to real life after discharge.

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Expanding Clinical Skills Through Diverse Cases

Therapists can work with many conditions. These include cerebrovascular disease, musculoskeletal disorders, respiratory disease, heart disease, and disuse syndrome.

Recently, cardiac rehabilitation has expanded our clinical field. Therefore, staff can also learn safety management and exercise therapy for cardiovascular disease.

This is a rich learning environment for therapists who want to see the whole body and support daily life.

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Educational System

Education That Never Leaves You Alone

We have an educational system for each stage of growth. New graduates, mid-career staff, and senior staff can all keep learning.

For New Staff

New staff should not face patients while still feeling unsure. This is one of our important values.

For Mid-Career Staff and Beyond

Teaching others also deepens your own clinical practice. As a result, learning continues across the whole department.

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Academic Conferences and Certification Support

Daily clinical work should not remain only as experience. Therefore, we support staff who want to reflect, present, and share their knowledge with the wider rehabilitation community.

Major Academic Conferences Attended

Examples of Certifications Obtained

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In Closing: Rehabilitation Services at Our Hospital

If these are your goals, we hope to grow together with you through Rehabilitation Services at Our Hospital.