Rehabilitation In the Home (RITH)

Rehabilitation In The Home (RITH) provides people who have been in hospital with access to rehabilitation therapies and nursing in their home through early supported discharge.

RITH offers a short-term, goal-directed rehabilitation program delivered in your own home, either in-person or remotely via telerehabilitation.

Services include:

• rehabilitation and Geriatric Medicine Specialist assessment and review
• nursing
• allied health including:
  • Physiotherapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Speech Pathology
  • Dietetics
  • Social Work
  • Exercise Physiology
  • Allied Health assistant
• personal care assistance where this is an identified rehabilitation goal
• short term equipment loan.

You may also be provided with equipment on a temporary free loan to support your rehabilitation.

The RITH service is located at TQEH, but we provide services in patients' homes.

RITH services are provided by a specialist multidisciplinary team made up of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who work together to deliver rehab programs tailored to each individual’s needs.

You need a referral from the team who are providing your care while in hospital to access this service.

We see people with many different conditions or situations who have had a reduction in their function, where multi-disciplinary rehabilitation is needed to achieve their goals, and where these goals specifically need to be assessed and worked on in a client’s home. 

To access Rehabilitation in the Home (RITH), you must:

• be 18 years or older
• currently be in hospital and have rehabilitation goals
• be motivated to participate
• be medically stable
• have a home environment that is suitable for therapy.

Referrals are made by the inpatient treating team by submitting a Sunrise EMR Consult order.

 This service may be suitable for clients who:

• are 18 years or older
• are currently admitted to hospital and medically stable
• have multi-disciplinary rehab goals and are motivated to participate
• have a home environment suitable for therapy
• are safe to be at home when staff are not present
• have a reliable contact method.

Email the referral form or call the Inpatient Rehabilitation Triage (Patient flow) Coordinator for more information.