Vision & Mission of our department
Vision:
To promote acute-phase rehabilitation medicine aimed at improving the health of each patient and extending the healthy life expectancy of people living in the community.
Mission:
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Based on a patient-first approach, provide whole-body assessment and implement early mobilization and high-intensity exercise therapy.
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Promote research to further advance these practices.
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Foster and train healthcare professionals who will carry out these practices.
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Contribute the knowledge gained through these efforts back to the community.
Our hospital is a core hospital located in the eastern Saitama area of Japan, which has 932 beds and provides advanced acute-phase care. Our department provides rehabilitation treatment to more than 8,000 acute-phase inpatients annually.
In particular, we actively promote early mobilization starting in the ultra-acute phase in the intensive care unit (ICU), and we strive to initiate exercise therapy for patients with cerebrovascular disease as early as the day after onset. Rehabilitation therapy, which is divided into physical, occupational, and speech-language therapy. The treatment provided is exercise therapy as well as cognitive rehabilitation. The target conditions are diverse, cerebrovascular, musculoskeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular diseases, cancers of various organ, and patients transported to emergency room, ranging from pediatrics to geriatrics. We assess the whole body of the patient every time beyond the boundaries of specific diseases or organs and imagine the patient’s daily life from the acute stage, e.g. from the time of ICU stay, to returning home and society. These initiatives are carried out while providing treatments tailored to each individual’s impairments and physical capacity. Rehabilitation medicine is team-based medicine. Collaboration is essential not only with therapists but also with other healthcare professionals such as physicians of other specialties, nurses, dietitians, and medical social workers. Based on these concepts, our aim is to promote patients’ functional recovery, enhance their activity levels, and enable them to achieve the best possible quality of life (QOL).
The education of healthcare professionals capable of sharing such concepts is also one of our responsibilities. We aim to foster such healthcare professionals in collaboration with other local institutions as well as other divisions and departments in our hospital.
As a university hospital, our core institution is also committed to research. We actively conduct clinical research to advance rehabilitation medicine and healthcare, aiming to foster patients’ activities and daily functioning. Especially, we would like to keep studying the significance of early mobilization.
We hope that our continuous efforts will contribute, in the years ahead, to extending the healthy life expectancy of the local communities in eastern Saitama.
