Why Choose Our Rehabilitation Program?
The Inpatient Rehab Program is a 12- bed medical unit located within Nationwide Children's Hospital. As a pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital provides direct access to comprehensive medical services and immediate physician coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Specialty and support services are provided based on each patient's clinical needs and may include:
- Dysphagia management
- Wound management
- Respiratory therapy
- Audiology services
- Spiritual Care
- Animal-assisted therapy
- Assistive technology, including augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
Diagnostic Imaging Services are available onsite which includes Plain film, CT, Ultrasound, MRI, Interventional, Nuclear medicine and Fluoroscopy.
- Urgent requests and results are reported immediately
- Routine requests and results are within 4 hours
Laboratory Services are available onsite.
- Urgent requests and results are reported immediately
- Routine results are reported within 4 hours after collection
- Send out labs such as Genetics and Pathology may take longer
Resources for the families/support systems include:
- Social work – community and financial resources
- Psychology – psychosocial support (grieving and coping)
- Spiritual care – chaplains trained to support people from all faith and spiritual traditions, as well as those who have no specific religious or spiritual beliefs
- Amenities – Ronald McDonald House, Sibling Clubhouse and Blue Jackets Resource Room
Inpatient Pharmacy is available 24/7.
Comprehensive medical specialty services are available onsite 24/7 to respond to orders and provide results.
- Adolescent Medicine
- Anesthesia
- Behavioral Health
- Cardiology
- Complex Care
- Critical Care
- Dentistry
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Genomics
- Hematology/Oncology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Neurosurgery
- OB/GYN
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Otolaryngology (ENT)
- Pain
- Palliative and Hospice Medicine
- Pediatrics
- Plastic Surgery
- Pulmonary
- Psychiatry
- Radiology
- Sleep Medicine
- Surgery (Burn, General, Trauma)
- Urology
- Vascular Surgery (consultative through OSU)
