Comprehensive Continuum of Care
Memorial Regional Rehabilitation Center provides a continuum of care consisting of inpatient and outpatient services that promote optimum levels of physical independence and functional ability. Additionally, psychological, social, vocational, educational, and economic adjustment issues are addressed as part of this continuum of care.

Interdisciplinary Professional Team
An interdisciplinary team of allied health professionals works together under the purview of a physician. Together the team assesses and treats each patient’s needs and goals. Team members confer regularly throughout the treatment program to assess how well the program is meeting patient, family, and team goals. Along with the patient and family, the interdisciplinary team can include any combination of the following professionals, depending on the unique therapeutic need(s) of each patient:

Physiatrist (physician that specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation)
Speech and language pathologist
Occupational therapist
Physical therapist
Rehabilitation social worker
Neuropsychologist
Rehabilitation nurse
Therapeutic recreation specialist
Clergy
Dietician
Driver rehabilitation specialist
Orthotist/prosthetist

Professional Staff
The Center’s professional staff are all board certified, licensed, or registered in their specialty area. They receive yearly additional training and professional development in their respective specialty areas to stay abreast of current and emerging developments in their area of training and practice. Memorial’s rehabilitation staff have an average of eight years of clinical, hands-on experience.

Wide Spectrum of Services
Memorial Regional Rehabilitation Center offers a complete spectrum of services and programs needed for comprehensive treatment of physical and physiological problems.

Inpatient Rehabilitation — Specialized treatment programs serve the range of inpatient needs, including:

Medical/surgical
Burns and wounds
Pediatrics
Oncology
Orthopaedics
Stroke
Spinal cord injuries
Brain injury
Swallowing disorders

Outpatient Rehabilitation — Outpatient services are provided at Memorial Hospital Main Campus, at Memorial Leighton HealthPlex in downtown South Bend, and at the Lighthouse Imaging Center in Granger. Outpatient rehabilitation services treat a full range of patient problems and disabilities.

Outpatient rehabilitation services available at Memorial Hospital include:

Pediatrics (Located in the 100 Navarre Building adjacent to the hospital)
Burns and wounds
Swallowing disorders
Voice therapy/Laryngectomy
Oncology
Orthotic and prosthetic clinic

Outpatient rehabilitation available at the Memorial Leighton HealthPlex includes:

Driver rehabilitation
Brain Injury Treatment Program
Neurological rehabilitation (stroke, spinal cord injury, and other neurological disorders)
Augmentative Communication and Computer Access
Orthopaedic and musculoskeletal rehabilitation
Work Performance Program
Hand Program, for rehabilitation of hand function
Back School, an education and rehabilitation program for back pain

Outpatient rehabilitation available at th Lighthouse Imaging Center in Granger includes:

Orthopaedic and musculoskeletal rehabilitation

Accreditation
Memorial Hospital of South Bend is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO). Memorial Regional Rehabilitation Center has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) since 1987 for comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation and brain injury programs (community integrated) and outpatient medical rehabilitation.

Committed
Staff at Memorial Regional Rehabilitation Center are committed to serving the community and the disabled population. We are involved with many events each year, including prevention programs for area elementary and high school students, evaluation clinics, and support groups. Professional staff are also active in the Stroke Survivors group, the Michiana chapter of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, and the Laryngectomy Support Group. Staff also make regular presentations to community groups on preventing falls, arthritis, stroke, head trauma, the effects of aging and exercise, orthopaedic rehabilitation, and other topics of interest.

For more information about Memorial Regional Rehabilitation Center and our programs, please contact us at (574) 647-7312.