The Rehabilitation Hospital at Lee Memorial Hospital, a 60-bed comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation facility located within Lee Memorial Hospital, provides care for adult and pediatric patients. The Rehabilitation Hospital is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities with specialty certification in stroke management and brain injury. It is the only licensed comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation facility in Lee County.
Key Facts:
- Established: 1987
- Type of Facility: Acute Care
- Number of Rehabilitation Beds: 60
Special Recognition:
- The Rehabilitation Hospital has specialty certification in stroke and brain injury management; and is a member of the Lee Memorial Health System trauma team.
- The Rehabilitation Hospital employs more than 148 individuals, has a medical staff of more than 1,000 and benefits from the generosity of more than 500 volunteers.
- The Rehabilitation Hospital has also been designated a “Center of Excellence” by the Neuro-Developmental Treatment Association (NDTA) for the adult population. The first of its kind in the Nation.
Treatment & Services available within hospital:
- Dietary Services
- Physiatry
- Neuropsychology
- Occupational Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- Respiratory Therapy
- Speech/Language Pathology
- Care Management and Social Work
- Wound Care
- Lymphedema
- Pharmacy
- Home Evaluations
- Rehabilitation Nursing
- Dialysis
Conditions and Diagnoses Served:
The case mix of impairment groups served by the Rehabilitation Hospital are listed below.*
- Stroke 362 29.8%
- Traumatic Brain Injury 54 4.4%
- Non-Traumatic Brain Injury 66 5.4%
- Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury 15 1.2%
- Non-Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury 27 2.2%
- Neuro 42 3.5%
- Fractured Lower Extremity 197 16.2%
- Replacement LE 44 3.6%
- Other Ortho 75 6.2%
- Amputation Lower Extremity 45 3.7%
- Cardiac 29 2.4%
- Pulmonary 9 0.7%
- Major Multiple Trauma
- w/o Brain or Spinal Cord Injury 50 4.1%
- Major Multiple Trauma
- w/Brain or Spinal Cord Injury 33 2.7%
- Guillain-Barre 16 1.3%
- Medically Complex 152 12.5%
Discharge Disposition:
Upon completion of their stay at the Rehabilitation Hospital from October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015, patients were discharged to the following settings:
- Instance Rehabilitation Hospital National(case mix and severity adjusted)
- Discharge to Community (patient goal) 858 patients met their discharge goals: 70.6% 79.7%
- Discharge to Skilled Facility or Other Alternate Level of Care-221 patients: 18.1% 12.5%
- Discharge to Acute Care-124 patients: 10.2% 7.8 %
*Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation: Case Mix Group Adjusted Report Copyright 2014 UDSMR – U. B. Foundation Act. Inc. (October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2015)
- Medicare