Inpatient Rehabilitation Patient Admission Criteria
Our highly skilled rehabilitation team manages complex medical, physical and psychological issues to help patients reach their full potential. Patients have access to medical management, intensive therapy, education and training to improve their strength, endurance and functional skills with the goal of returning to a meaningful life.
Admission to the rehabilitation program requires patients to be:
- Medically complex but not ventilator dependent
- Age 13 or older (Patients younger than 18 must be followed by a pediatrician.)
- Able to follow commands
- Able to make significant functional improvement
- Able to tolerate and willing to participate in at least three hours of therapy per day
- In need of a hospital level of care with close physician supervision and 24-hour rehabilitation nursing
- Diagnosis of one of the following conditions with significant functional deficits:
- Stroke
- Amputations from the hip down
- Brain injury
- Multiple traumas
- Spinal cord injury (including traumatic and non-traumatic injuries that are complete or incomplete for cervical levels C5 and below. The injury level, extent of completeness and other medical factors are assessed on an individual basis.)
- Neurological disorders
- Multiple sclerosis
- Parkinson’s disease
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Post polio syndrome
- West Nile virus
- Complex orthopedic disorders
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Hip fracture
- Joint replacement
- Spine surgery
- Medically complex debility
- Cancer
- Heart conditions
The program does not accept people who are ventilator dependent, on telemetry, or who are at risk to harm themselves or others. Candidates with weight bearing restrictions or other activity limitations are considered on an individual basis. Caregivers must do training for skill carryover and safe management of the patient in the home before discharge.
