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Memorial is the only health care
organization in Illinois -- and one of 40 in the world -- to receive
full, three-year accreditations for these five distinct program
areas in rehabilitation services:
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Comprehensive
inpatient rehabilitation: adults, children and adolescents.
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Brain injury
inpatient rehabilitation: adults, children and adolescents.
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Spinal cord system
of care: adults.
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Interdisciplinary
outpatient medical rehabilitation: adults, children and
adolescents.
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Stroke inpatient specialty.
In 2010 and 2007, Memorial Medical Center earned a three-year
CARF accreditation in the same five service areas.
"This achievement is a tribute to our entire rehabilitation staff
that are dedicated to the goal of helping people home," said Teresa
Reiser, PT, MS, LVR, director of neuromuscular sciences at Memorial
Medical Center and a physical therapist. "Our programs greatly
benefit from the tremendous depth of professional knowledge and
experience of each staff member."
Through intensive treatment from an interdisciplinary team,
Memorial Rehab Services seeks to improve the functional living
skills of people recovering from disabling medical illness or
injury.
"We help our patients overcome barriers to safely return home and
to foster successful return to productive daily activities," Reiser
said.
Patients and families are served by interdisciplinary teams of
physicians, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists,
speech therapists, psychologists, therapeutic recreational
specialists, dietitians, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains,
who develop evidence-based plans of care unique to each patient.
"Our rehabilitation programs foster independence, dignity and
hope, improving the lives of persons across the life span and with
the most severe and chronic disabilities," said Evan Davis, PT, MS,
MBA, administrator of orthopedics and neurosciences at Memorial
Medical Center. "We are extremely proud of our world-class team and
their commitment to improving the health of the people and
communities we serve."
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A six-member survey team spent two days in early July conducting
a comprehensive evaluation of the rehabilitation services offered at
Memorial Medical Center, the hospital's Koke Mill Medical Center at
3132 Old Jacksonville Road and Memorial SportsCare, 4550 W. Iles
Ave..
Memorial Rehab Services also provides care at Memorial Physician
Services--Petersburg, 1 Centre Drive, Petersburg; and Memorial
Industrial Rehabilitation, 775 Engineering Drive, Springfield.
"This designation ensures that our patients and their families
will receive extraordinary care from a multidisciplinary team that
uses evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to provide the
highest quality of care," Reiser said. "Our goal is to provide the
very best in rehabilitation care, and this accreditation from CARF
is validation that we are succeeding."
Founded in 1966, CARF is an independent, nonprofit organization
that accredits programs and services in behavioral health and
medical rehabilitation, among other clinical programs, throughout
the United States, Canada and Europe.
Memorial Medical Center, 701 N. First St., is a nonprofit,
community-based hospital in the Illinois Medical District at
Springfield. For more information, visit
MemorialMedical.com.
[Text from file received from
Memorial Medical Center]
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