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$7M Advanced Brain Injury Rehab Unit opens at Strong Memorial Hospital
Strong’s $7 million advanced brain injury rehab unit provides rehabilitation and support services for patients recovering from brain injuries. (Photo Credit: UR Medicine)
Strong’s $7 million advanced brain injury rehab unit provides rehabilitation and support services for patients recovering from brain injuries. (Photo Credit: UR Medicine)
$7M Advanced Brain Injury Rehab Unit opens at Strong Memorial Hospital
University of Rochester Medical Center has opened a new unit at Strong Memorial Hospital that provides comprehensive rehabilitation and support services for patients recovering from strokes, traumatic brain injuries and other types of acute acquired brain injuries.
Health system leaders said the $7 million Acute Brain Injury NeuroRehabilitation Unit meets a regional need for these services and is integrated into the hospital’s trauma, surgical and intensive care programs, providing a continuum of care designed to help patients recover function and independence.
“This new unit strengthens our ability to provide integrated and coordinated care for cognitively impaired brain injury patients,” said Rajeev Patel, MD, chair of the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. “Keeping these patients here at Strong Memorial allows easier coordination of care with their acute care physicians who, in many cases, are only a floor away. Our unique service line model allows for our brain injury rehabilitation medicine physicians to provide continuity of care from acute floor consultation, admission and medical management on our new brain injury unit and follow-up in the outpatient clinic setting after discharge.”
The 11-bed unit supplements the existing 20-bed Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit there, increasing the total acute inpatient rehabilitation beds at the hospital to 31.
“The Acute Brain Injury Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit adds much needed acute rehab beds to our community and expands UR Medicine’s capacity to deliver advanced and integrated care to trauma and stroke patients who come to us from our affiliates and other hospitals in the region,” said Kathy Parrinello, Strong’s chief operating officer.
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