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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

The Johns Hopkins Hospital Comprehensive Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit

The Johns Hopkins Hospital Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary team-based rehabilitation to improve the health, function and well-being of our patients. Our 18-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit offers an individualized treatment plan from our team comprised of Johns Hopkins physiatrists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, rehabilitation nurses, psychologists, recreational therapists and social workers/case managers for patients, and includes rehabilitation care for amputation, spinal cord injury and dysfunction, complex medical conditions, orthopedics and brain injury stroke.

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Specialized Programs

The Johns Hopkins Hospital Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit has several specialty programs available to patients throughout their stay:

High-Intensity Upper Limb Training

A combination of exercise and cutting-edge technology to improve strength, function and range of motion in the arms and shoulders.

Stroke Rehabilitation

Our stroke rehabilitation program, as part of the Sheikh Khalifa Stroke Institute, offers customized rehabilitation plans for stroke recovery.

Get to Know Our Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit

Private Patient Rooms

The Johns Hopkins Hospital features all private rooms in our inpatient rehabilitation unit. Each room offers a healing environment, with ample space for family visits.

A photo showing off the private rooms available in our inpatient units.

Immersive Gaming Room

Our gaming room includes immersive gaming technologies that can be incorporated into your inpatient rehabilitation program, providing an interactive way to meet your recovery goals.

A patient using our immersive gaming technology with a therapist monitoring.

Recumbent Cross-Trainer

The device simulates walking and offers a low-impact, whole-body workout. We use it to help patients improve endurance by safely increasing intensity during cardiovascular exercise. For patients with limb weakness or paralysis, the harness attachment supports the use of the affected limb to promote neuromuscular recovery.

Patient using a recumbent cross trainer

Gym with a Harness System

The spacious gym is outfitted with all kinds of equipment to facilitate recovery after an illness or injury, including an overhead harness system for patients with weight-bearing restrictions. 

A photo of our gym with different workout equipment and a harness system.

Mock Apartment

We built realistic environments to imitate home and public spaces, so that patients can safely practice activities they do throughout the day, such as making coffee or folding laundry.

A patient folding clothing with a therapist in a mock apartment room.

Bimanual Arm Trainer

Bimanual arm trainer (BAT) uses simultaneous arm movements to improve strength and range of motion of an affected arm after a stroke. This device gamifies the therapy approach to improve engagement and repetitions, which are important for neuro-motor recovery.

Bimanual arm trainer

Community Recreation Room

Our community room is a perfect space for recreational therapy, which uses games and other activities to aid in psychological and physical recovery and well-being.

A patient playing air hockey with a therapist with another therapist helping the patient.

Car Simulator

The car simulator allows patients to practice getting in and out of a sedan. This helps people who have  movement restrictions after surgery or limb loss, as well as those who have conditions affecting balance, range of motion, mobility and strength.

Car simulator, patient and therapist

1-1 SLP Rooms

Our private 1-1 speech and language therapy treatment rooms provide a quiet and distraction-free environment to assess, diagnose and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive communication and swallowing disorders.

Speech Language Pathologist working with a patient in the 1 on 1 SLP room.

BITS System

The Bioness Integrated Therapy System (BITS) helps challenge and assess hand-eye coordination, reaction time, visuospatial perception, visual/auditory processing, working memory, and physical/cognitive endurance.

Bioness Integrated Therapy System (BITS)

Located on The Johns Hopkins Hospital Campus  

The inpatient rehabilitation unit is located in the Meyer building at The Johns Hopkins Hospital on the seventh floor and is closest to the Wolfe Street entrance, with nearby parking at Orleans Street garage. 

Outside shot of the 600 Wolfe Street entrance.

Rehabilitation Leadership

Annette Lavezza, OTR/L

Director, Inpatient Rehabilitation Services

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Brian Lupus, PT

Rehabilitation Program Manager, CIIRP(s)
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Stacey Friedel, OTR/L

Rehabilitation Therapy Manager

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Maggie Pruitt, PT, DPT

Team Coordinator

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Medical Director

Ning Cao, MD

  • Rehabilitation Medicine Director, Inpatient Rehabilitation Services, Johns Hopkins Medicine
  • Associate Professor (PAR) of Clinical Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation Nursing Leadership

Sharon Owens ACNP-BC, NEA-BC, PhD

Director of Nursing, Department of Surgery and PM&R

Erin Hanson, BSN, RN, CRRN

Interim Nurse Manager

Care Management

Terry Ziegler LCSW-C

Director of Social Work

Contact Us

The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 N. Wolfe St.
Meyer-7
Baltimore, MD 21287

Admissions and Consultations: 410-502-7156
Office of Acute Care Therapies: 410-955-6214