Patients being considered for admission to the Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit are evaluated by the Johns Hopkins rehabilitation consult team or the medical director, and must meet the following criteria:
- Patients have functional impairments resulting from injury, illness or developmental disease.
- Patients have rehabilitation needs in two or more functional domains (mobility, activities of daily living, bowel and/or bladder management, cognition, communication, swallowing, others.)
- Patients have sufficient physical and cognitive capacity to participate in a comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation program. They are able to tolerate at least three hours a day of therapy activity.
- There is a reasonable expectation that acute rehabilitation care will result in increased function and that a satisfactory discharge plan will be achieved.
- Patients are medically stable; in other words, their medical conditions allow participation in a full acute rehabilitation program. Medical problems have been evaluated and determined not to interfere with patient's potential to achieve rehabilitation goals.
- Patients and families agree to admission to inpatient rehabilitation and the tentative goals and length of stay.
