Magee Rehabilitation Hospital

Programs: In pursuing its mission of providing rehabilitative care to patients, magee rehabilitation hospital rendered therapy and diagnostic services to its 940 inpatients and over 66,000 outpatient units of service in 2017. Physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, psychological evaluations and therapy, radiology and laboratory studies, pharmaceutical and medical supplies, and durable medical equipment were made available to all patients without regard to race, color, gender, sexual preference, national origin or religion. Magee rehabilitation hospital absorbed or provided in excess of $6. 1 million of free services (calculated at cost) and reimbursement shortfalls (where cost of services exceed reimbursement to medicare and medical assistance patients, as well as other governmental programs) to indigent patients in fiscal year 2017. Health information and education - in pursuing its mission of education of its employees and the community, magee rehabilitation hospital offers a wide variety of information and educational resources for staff members, patients, families and members of the community. The professional education series is designed to educate members of the rehabilitation community about rehabilitation programs offered at magee. Magee's patient learning resource center is a unique library dedicated to information about disability and rehabilitation. The library also offers internet access to explore the growing number of resources online. Information available online at magee's website (www. Mageerehab. Org) includes videos and a series of articles ranging from making your home handicap accessible to safe and healthy habits for everyone. In addition, magee sends its employees to many educational seminars and conferences to keep them abreast of the latest trends in rehabilitation medicine. Magee encourages its employees to obtain professional certifications and honors, and pays for seminars to train them. Thinkfirst program - thinkfirst is a nationally organized program recognized as an effective method of injury prevention education. The objectives of thinkfirst are to prevent head and spinal cord injuries in young people through education, serve as a resource to educational institutions and healthcare providers for injury prevention, and to increase student awareness about their own risk taking behavior and present strategies to adopt that will prevent injuries to themselves and others. The program is presented to schools, community centers, youth centers, churches, etc. In assembly format the program consists of a brief explanation of the brain & spinal cord, video and personal presentations by individual(s) with disabilities (most often wheelchair user) during 2017, there were over 50 schools and youth group presentations reaching over 1,500 young people. Art therapy at magee includes drawing, painting, sculpture, clay modeling, quilting, photography, museum visits and a variety of other creative outlets. The focus of art therapy within a physical rehabilitation hospital is to work with individuals through creating artwork as an addition to existing care. Magee rehabilitation has a long history of supporting the local community of people with disabilities. Magee's wheelchair sports programs heightens independence and improves quality-of-life. Magee athletes have competed in regional, national and international sports events, including the paralympics, held every four years at the site of the summer olympic games. Magee sponsors athletes in wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, wheelchair tennis, and weight-lifting and works with several other sports organizations. These activities are coordinated through magee's community programs department. Magee sponsors three annual competitions. A wheelchair rugby tournament, the beast of the east, which stretches over a fall weekend and attracts teams from across the united states and canada. This tournament is sanctioned by the united states quad rugby association (usqra) many of the competing teams qualify each year for the usqra's national championship tournament. A wheelchair basketball tournament, the dan sullivan classic, also completed over a weekend features 8 teams from across the country. The tournament is sanctioned by the national wheelchair basketball association (nwba). A wheelchair tennis tournament is held each summer that is sanctioned by the united states tennis association. 40 people were served by the wheelchair sports program in 2017. Magee offers other recreation programs such as adapted aquatics, horticultural therapy, leisure counseling, leisure education, music therapy, pastoral care and movement therapy. The estimated unreimbursed cost of providing these various community service programs' services were over $1. 4 million in 2017. Details of these and the many other programs offered at magee rehabilitation hospital can be found at our website www. Mageerehab. Org.