Nursing and Sub-Acute Rehabilitation

When choosing a Nursing & Rehabilitation home, you want high quality care, support, and encouragement so you can achieve the results you desire. At Hackensack Meridian Health Nursing and Rehab at Brick, you will receive a personalized medical care program for short-term and long-term nursing and rehabilitation. These services are an alternative to prolonged hospital care. Using a multi-disciplinary, goal-oriented approach, a skilled team helps every patient reach their maximum level of independence.

Resident services include:

• 24-hour staffing with board-certified physicians and registered nurses
• Individual care planning and regular health assessments
• Assistance with getting around, dressing, bathing, personal hygiene and medications
• Rehabilitation therapy
• Medication administration
• Coordination of doctor appointments
• Ongoing variety of stimulating social, educational and spiritual programs
• Direct access to services at Ocean Medical Center

In addition, we perform a variety of services on site in order to eliminate re-hospitalization including bladder scans, EKG, IV Antibiotics, IV Lasix, radiology services, lab work, TPN, G-tube, chest tubes, Life Vest, and tracheostomy services. Through our high-quality medical care, progressive rehabilitation, comfortable atmosphere, and loving support, we give peace of mind to our residents and their families.

Short-term and Sub-acute Rehabilitation

From our wide range of short- and long-term medical and rehabilitative programs, Meridian Nursing & Rehab’s continuum of care approach helps achieve the most successful outcomes. The Sub-acute Care Unit at Meridian Nursing & Rehab at Brick cares for patients who require complex medical care, skilled nursing and progressive rehabilitation services.

The progressive short-term therapy program provides:

• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech therapy

Sub-acute care assists those who have experienced catastrophic trauma, illness, or surgery with their recuperation, helping them function better, sooner.

Using an interdisciplinary plan of skilled care and rehabilitation, our medical staff delivers sub-acute care for:

• Advanced wounds
• Amputation
• Arthritis
• Audiological disorders
• Cardiovascular disease
• De-conditioning rehabilitation
• Dysphagia or swallowing problems
• Fractures and orthopedic problems
• Neurological injury and disease
• Occupational therapy
• Oncology
• Post-cardiac conditions
• Post-medical and post-surgical conditions
• Pulmonary disease
• Speech disorders
• Stroke

Heart Care

At Meridian Nursing and Rehab at Brick, we are proud to be the only skilled nursing facility in New Jersey to receive the Advanced Certification in Heart Failure from the Joint Commission in conjunction with the American Heart Association. The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 20,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality.

The Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification in Heart Failure Program, launched in 2011, is designed to target methods of providing safe, successful transitions of care as the patient moves from the inpatient setting to an outpatient setting. Achievement of this certification signifies our dedication and commitment to the achievement of long-term success in improving outcomes for patients diagnosed with and being treated for heart failure.