Center for NeuroRecovery

Since opening in 1995, RHCI's Stroke Program and Brain Injury Program have returned thousands of residents to home, work and community. In 2005, its tenth anniversary year, RHCI made a major commitment to further enhance rehabilitation care for patients with these and other neurological disabilities by creating the RHCI Center for NeuroRecovery.  Click here  for news release.

Components of the center include:

• Stroke Rehabilitation Program
• Brain Injury Program
• Parkinson’s Disease Program
• Orthotics and Prosthetics Clinics
• Driver Assessment Program
• Audiology

Physician Services

• Physicians specializing in neurology and physiatry (rehabilitation medicine)
• 24-hour, in-house physician coverage
• Spasticity evaluation and treatment
• Neurobehavioral assessment and treatment
• Nerve conduction studies with EMG
• Neuropsychology and Psychology Services

Other Clinical Services

• Swallowing evaluations with video fluoroscopy
• Telemetry
• Tracheostomy management; BiPAP, CPAP and other respiratory services
• TPN
• Hemodialysis
• Clinicians with specialized neurorehabilitation training

Click here for PDF of Center for NeuroRecovery fact sheet.

Additional Features

• Advanced technologies - RHCI's latest initiative is to partner with an innovator in rehabilitation devices to enhance recovery of mobility and hand and wrist function following stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury and other neurological disorders. See L300 neuroprosthesis, Bioness and H200 neuroprosthesis.
• Activities of Daily Living apartment for patient and family education and training
• Ongoing education of staff in latest techniques of neurorehabilitation
• Innovative therapeutic recreation options, including the USGA-funded Back in the Swing  adapted golf program, gardening, fishing

Especially for Patients and Families

• Stroke Survivors' Support Group  
• Mild Brain Injury Support Group  
• Aphasia Community Group  
• Stroke Peer Visitation Program  offered in conjunction with the National Stroke Association
• Community outreach programs emphasizing prevention of disease and injury