Rusk Rehabilitation Center

Howard A. Rusk rehabilitation center, popularly known as Rusk rehabilitation center is an inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Columbia, Missouri. The hospital has capacity of 60 beds for inpatients. The hospital was established as a joint venture of HealthSouth and University of Missouri-Columbia. Rusk rehabilitation center provides array of medical rehabilitation services for its patients.

Accreditation

Rusk rehabilitation center is accredited by 'The Joint Commission'. The center is also Parkinson Proficient accredited. It has also bagged the award of 'HealthSouth Stroke rehabilitation Center of Excellence' for the stroke rehab services provided at the center. Being a joint venture, the center also enjoys certification from 'University of Missouri Health Care'.

Programs

Inpatient Programs

Rusk rehabilitation center provides quality programs in various areas. It has been able to deliver reliable and economical rehabilitation services for its patients. The center offers following inpatient rehabilitation programs:

Amputee
Arthritis
Brain injury
General rehabilitation
Hip fracture
Joint replacement
Multi-trauma
Multiple sclerosis
Movement disorders
Orthopedic rehabilitation program
Parkinson's disease
Spasticity management
Spinal cord injury
Stroke / CVA rehabilitation

Outpatient Programs

For its outpatients, Rusk rehabilitation center provides following programs:

Amputee
Arthritis
Balance and vestibular
Brain injury
Gait disturbance
Industrial medicine
Multiple sclerosis
Osteoporosis
Parkinson's disease
Spasticity management
Spinal cord injury

All the programs offered at the center are designed to help patients reach optimum level of performances. The programs incorporate latest technological developments in the field of biomechanics, rehab medicine etc.

Day Hospital

The Rusk Rehabilitation Center in Missouri also has provision for 'Day Hospital'. Understanding that patients who do not need 24 hours of nursing care and physician supervision, but constant support for various therapies, the center had come up with this innovative concept. Patients at Day Hospital are advised individual plans. The facility of Day Hospital Program is available for patients with following disorders:

Amputee
Brain injury
Multiple sclerosis
Neurological conditions
Parkinson's disease
Spinal cord injury
Stroke / CVA

Team

In the quest to deliver an effective treatment, Rusk Rehabilitation Center emphasizes on having a team approach for various programs. The team includes following members:

Specialist physician (in Physical medicine and rehabilitation)
Rehabilitation nurse
Case manager
Occupational therapist
Physical therapist
Speech / language pathologist (if required)
Respiratory therapist (if required)
Nutritionist
Neuropsychology (if required)

Insurances

Patients at Rusk Rehabilitation Center can opt to pay for their expenses by showing insurance certificate from following insurance providers:

Medicaid
Medicare
Commercial insurers (subject to approval)

Patient's outcome

Rusk Rehabilitation Center utilizes a unique approach to measure the success rate of its treatment program in providing effective rehabilitation to its patients. The center uses the Functional Improvement Measurement (FIM) gain as a tool to measure the improvement.

FIM gain is a measure of change in patient's performance level from day one of the admission till the final day of discharge. This measure is then used as a benchmark to evaluate the efficiency of various programs and recovery rate of patients.

The rehabilitation outcome of patients at Rusk Rehabilitation Center has exceeded the national and regional average in various categories of rehabilitative programs.

Rusk Rehabilitation Center with its continuum of services has successfully established itself as ideal destination for those seeking effective rehabilitation.