Designed as a destination parents can confidently trust to deliver safe, effective, and timely care to their child, the Acute Rehabilitation program at Totally Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is celebrating its tenth anniversary of delivering every day on that solemn promise.
Part of a campus devoted 100% to children, the acute rehab program helps restore function, prevent complications, and teach new skills to children, adolescents and young adults who are recovering from a complex illness or injury. Provided on both an inpatient and outpatient basis, the wide variety of services offered are all delivered in a family-friendly setting to patients ages 1 to 21. That includes those facing neurological illness and injuries (brain surgeries, stroke or Guillain Barre), spinal cord injuries, orthopedic injuries, cancer recovery/rehabilitation, burn/recovery rehabilitation, non-healing wounds and chronic pulmonary disease.
“We believe strongly that every child is entitled to a nurturing and a meaningful life. That’s why every day for the past ten years we’ve put our full energy and resources into providing each child with the treatment and affection needed to enrich their health and help them reach their highest possible level of independence - physically, mentally, and socially,” said Pauline Hennessey, vice president of rehabilitation services, child development & education. “We also believe that every child is unique, so we take extra care in making sure that each child’s medical and psychological needs are met with an abundance of compassion and respect.”
As Hennessey explains, since its inception the acute rehab program at Totally Kids has continued to evolve to respond to changing community needs, fill gaps in the local healthcare system and make available the latest cutting-edge technologies found only in the nation's most sophisticated pediatric rehabilitation centers. This includes biofeedback, neurofeedback, virtual reality, EKSO Bionic Exoskelton and VitalStim Therapy. By complementing these technologies with the caring, expert touch for which Totally Kids is nationally-known, the program has repeatedly earned the Gold Seal of Approval by the Joint Commission, the industry’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.
By implementing best practice in clinical care, collaboration and problem solving, the acute rehab program at Totally Kids has been shown to surpass industry standards for clinical outcomes and shorter length of stay when benchmarked against other pediatric rehab facilities across the country. That means that a child can return home, back to school and back to their friends safely and as quickly as possible.
“We are immensely grateful to our exceptional interdisciplinary team of doctors, nurses, therapists, pathologists, neuropsychologists and others who for ten years and counting have taken pride in helping to make Totally Kids the special place it is,” said Totally Kids Chief Operating Officer Irwin Hansen. “As this program enters its second decade of caring we will continue to put the wants and needs of our patients and their parents first and will never lose sight of the trust and confidence they have placed in us.”
For more than 50 years Totally Kids has been a national leader in providing personalized rehabilitation and habilitation services for children with a family-centered emphasis. Programs include acute pediatric rehabilitation, subacute care for children with clinically complex conditions, the innovative “Totally Infants Program” for the care of infants who are ready to transition from a NICU but not yet ready to go home and Circlebrook Intermediate Care for medically fragile children. totallykids.com.