The Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center’s highly qualified and dedicated staff employs an interdisciplinary team approach to care, with the patient at the center of that team. Skilled services are provided in a 24-hour therapeutic environment with direct rehabilitative nursing care and an intensive physician-directed therapy program, which includes education and training for patients and their caregivers. The services are designed to maximize the abilities and minimize the disabilities of each patient.
Intensive rehabilitative therapy can help patients recovering from serious conditions, including:
Carol Tuschick and her husband were closing their summer home on Block Island when an accident shattered her pelvis. After emergency surgery and weeks of recovery, Carol came to Vanderbilt's Inpatient Rehabilitation Center to learn to walk again. Carol spent three weeks here and was back on her feet. The local news shared her heartwarming story.
The goal of inpatient rehabilitation is to help patients regain lost function so they can return to the community and live as independently as possible. This could include regaining skills necessary for completing activities of daily living like bathing and dressing; maximizing muscle control and strength; improving balance, mobility, swallowing, eating, and speaking; optimizing communication skills; and minimizing pain and cognitive deficits.
Members of the rehabilitation team will evaluate each patient and create an individualized plan of care in conjunction with the patient. All team members, including the patient and their caregivers, participate in the patient’s care plan throughout the inpatient rehabilitation stay, which lasts about two weeks in general.
For more information or to refer a patient to inpatient rehabilitation at the Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center at Newport Hospital, please call 401-606-4432.
To speak with a staff member on the nursing unit at Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center, please call 401-845-1607.
The inpatient rehabilitation program at the Vanderbilt Rehabilitation Center is designed for patients who require intensive, interdisciplinary rehabilitation services in a hospital setting. The center’s highly qualified and dedicated staff employs an interdisciplinary team approach to care. Skilled services are provided in a 24-hour therapeutic environment with direct nursing care and an intensive physician-directed therapy program which includes therapies, education, and training. The services are designed to maximize the abilities and minimize the disabilities of each patient.
Private rooms are available at the inpatient rehabilitation unit at Newport Hospital, designed for patients who require intensive, multidisciplinary rehabilitation programs, including at least three hours of therapy per day, at least five days per week.
The unit offers skilled nursing and physician-directed therapy programs that are supported by the broad medical resources of the Brown University Health medical staff, with laboratory services, pharmacy, and diagnostic imaging on site.
Each patient’s care plan is individually designed to address the special care needs of the patient, maximize their abilities, and minimize dysfunction.
Our program has been named a Guardian of Excellence award winner four years in a row by Press Ganey Associates for the outstanding patient experience we provide.
We have two Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)-accredited programs providing the best care for our patients:
