Rehabilitation
The Rehabilitation Unit provides inpatient evaluation and care. We treat children and adolescents with disabilities due to illness, injury or congenital origin.
The Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission (CARF) accredits the inpatient Rehabilitation Program. This shows that the program is committed to meeting international standards of quality.
Specialty Services Offered
Our services include:
- Adaptive equipment and technology
- Bowel and urinary continence
- Brace and artificial limb use
- Child clinical psychology and neuropsychology
- Communication
- Community survival and integration
- Clinical nutrition services
- Decubitus prevention
- Education
- Mobility and self-care skills
- Occupational therapy
- Physical and occupational therapy
- Physiatry
- Psychological functioning and adjustment to disability
- Rehabilitation nursing
- Social work
- Seating and positioning
- Specialized school programs
- Speech therapy
- Therapeutic recreation
Diagnoses or Conditions Treated
- Amputation
- Birth defects
- Brain abscess
- Brain injury
- Brain tumor
- Burns
- Encephalitis
- Fractures and multiple trauma
- Myopathies
- Neurological conditions (such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome, spinal cord injury, stroke and pain syndromes including reflex neuromuscular dystrophy)
Physician Leadership
- Kenneth M. Jaffe, MD, Director