Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Inpatient Program

Center Nursing Station

Our Innovation Centers Our revolutionary model of patient care revolves around five Innovation Centers. The Centers are state-of-the-art hospital  BRAIN

Our Brain Innovation Center's focus is on promoting brain healing and recovery, and offers the world’s best in medical and nursing care, diagnostic support and translational neuroscience research. This Center provides a calming/non-distracting environment to facilitate brain healing. Even the unique walls on this floor — which are curved — are acoustically designed to dampen sound. Our Spinal Cord Innovation Center is equipped to handle all levels, types and severity of SCI, including patients with complete paralysis and who require mechanical ventilation. The primary goals for patients in this Center include the emergence of meaningful motor function, sensation, coordination and endurance, resolution of respiratory and vascular instability, and overall continued medical recovery from the injury or disease.  SPINAL CORD The Nerve, Muscle & Bone Innovation Center’s singular priority is treating patients with injuries and conditions affecting body movement. The immediate goals for most patients in this Center include improvements in total body movement, complex motor and sensory activities, balance, coordination, and higher-level activities of daily living (e.g., cooking, cleaning, gardening, sports and other recreational activities). Our Pediatric Innovation Center features lively child-centered themes to create a stimulating — uplifting — atmosphere for young patients and their families. Our goal is to provide specialty rehabilitation care for children from infancy through adolescence, including care for children with traumatic injuries, congenital and developmental disorders, and those surviving cancer.  NERVE, MUSCLE & BONE  PEDIATRIC CANCER The Cancer Rehabilitation Innovation Center leverages the world-class care and expertise provided in all of the other Innovation Centers — Brain; Spinal Cord; Nerve, Muscle & Bone; and Pediatric Rehabilitation. We are the only rehabilitation hospital in the region — and one of only a handful of institutions across the country — to offer a comprehensive, integrated approach to rehabilitation for adults and children fighting cancer.

facilities for exceptional patient care grounded in the best medical and nursing support. By design, they are fitted with all of the latest smart-room, mobility and therapeutic devices and equipment. The purpose of each Center is to help patients recover from injuries, diseases and other medical conditions that affect their ability. With the unique needs of each patient at the center of care, the individual Centers bring the best talent in medicine, nursing, therapy and research together in real time and the same physical space.

5 Inside Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

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