Recovery After Stroke and Heart Attack — Patient Story at Good Shepherd Penn Partners

Recovery after Stroke and Heart Attack — Patient Story at Good Shepherd Penn Partners – At 83, Anne Scarpa is the heart and soul of her family. After suffering a heart attack and stroke following surgery she needed physical and occupational therapy. Arriving at Good Shepherd Penn Partners, Penn Medicine’s rehabilitation hospital, she had very limited function. “I was upset by what I saw, because I definitely saw somebody that I couldn’t recognize. This was just not my mother. When they tried to sit her up, she totally always went to the left,” said Donna Scarpa Martine, daughter of Mrs. Scarpa. Until recently, Mrs. Scarpa would have had to leave the care of Penn Medicine’s system for another rehabilitation provider but that option was unacceptable. “So what I saw then, where she was able with much assistance to sit up… in the very beginning she really could speak that well. She would mumble, and then there would be a few words, and then she’d mumble again. But each day, we could see more progression. And even though maybe to the doctors it was only a little bit, to us she was doing well. But I knew… my instincts were… I had no choice. She was going to get better. I just had no choice but to make her get better, ” said Donna. “So I heard about Good Shepherd Penn Partners. It’s close to where all of the hospitals that she’d be associated with. It’s the system. I did not want to take her away from the system, and why would I when the treatment that we were getting, the treatment that my mother was getting, was just the best. So I couldn’t think of any …

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