John Heinz Rehab houses one of the
nation's leading rehabilitation programs for people suffering from
brain injury due to trauma, insufficient oxygen, infection or certain
progressive diseases. We are the only CARF
accredited program in
northeastern Pennsylvania for rehabilitation treatment of brain injury
as well as the only credentialed ImPACT® concussion
management provider in the region.
Accreditation includes adults, adolescents and pediatrics.
Compared regionally and nationally, patients in our Brain Injury Program frequently go home quicker and with more independent functioning as measured by scores from the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation. (The Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation is the most widely used system in the world for documenting the severity of patient disability and the outcomes of medical rehabilitation.)
| Our Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program offers a comprehensive approach to treating the complex physical aspects of brain injury, including: | |
•Behavioral and social judgment problems |
•Memory loss |
•Cognitive deficits |
•Muscle weakness or paralysis |
•Confusion |
•Speech/language problems |
• Difficulty swallowing |
•Emotional issues |
• Difficulty walking |
•Visual perceptual problems |
Programs and Services
| Programs Offered | For Patients who ... |
• Minimally Conscious Program |
• are emerging from coma and beginning
to respond to their environment. |
• are not yet able to tolerate an aggressive
therapy schedule |
|
• Acute Brain Injury Program |
• have sustained serious brain injuries
and are |
• experiencing multiple post-injury disabilities |
|
• Mild Brain Injury Program |
• are experiencing post concussive syndrome |
| Services offered: | |
• Audiology |
• Recreational therapy |
• Medication assessment/management |
• Rehabilitation technology |
| • Neuropsychological evaluations/services | • Rehabilitation nursing |
• Nutritional services |
• Respiratory/pulmonary therapy* |
• Occupational therapy |
• Social services |
• Physical therapy |
• Speech pathology |
*Patients who are ventilator dependent or require advanced respiratory therapy are cared for in our Skilled Nursing Center
| Evaluations and therapies offered: | |
• Activities of daily living (ADL) in an apartment setting |
• Environment evaluation and modification |
• Adaptive sports and recreation |
• Gait evaluation and training |
• Aquatic therapy |
• Mobility evaluation and training |
| • Behavior modification | • Neuropsychological Evaluations / Services |
| • Bowel and bladder management | • Pain management |
| • Cognitive skill retraining | • Patient and family counseling |
| • Coma arousal | • Patient and family education |
| • Communication skills | • Referral to community services |
• Community reintegration |
• Seating/positioning |
• Comprehensive medical management |
• Sensory stimulation |
| • Computerized neuromuscular retraining | • Spasticity management |
• Driver evaluation, retraining, adaptive devices |
• Stress management and emotional support |
| • Drug and alcohol treatment referrals | • Videofluoroscopy (swallow studies) |
| • Eating and swallowing management | • Vision rehabilitation |
For more information, please call Judy Schrepfer at (570) 826-3986.