About Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Services

Located in New York City, The Mount Sinai Medical Center offers comprehensive patient care services for individuals with spinal cord injuries, brain injuries, and a variety of neuromuscular, musculoskeletal, and chronic conditions. Our rehabilitation medicine program ranks among the top 20 in the U.S. News & World Report 2011-2012 "America's Best Hospitals" issue.

Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Medicine is accredited by CARF — the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities — for our spinal cord system of care, brain injury program, Amputation Specialty Program, and Comprehensive Integrated Inpatient Rehabilitation Program. Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Medicine is the only CARF-accredited program in New York State in both spinal cord injury and brain injury, and the first program in New York State that is CARF-accredited in post-amputation care.

Team Approach Pivotal to Successful Rehabilitation

The Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Medicine team includes physicians, primary rehabilitation nurses, nurse practitioners, and professional staff in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, nutrition, social work, psychology, therapeutic recreation, and vocational counseling.

Our interdisciplinary team approach takes advantage of each discipline's expertise to provide quality care. Our experienced health care professionals evaluate each patient and meet regularly as a team to develop and implement individualized treatment plans in partnership with patients and their families. Our goal is to enable every individual with a disability to live with maximum self-sufficiency and mobility, and to be able to return to community life.

Specialized Rehabilitation Programs Offer Personalized Treatment

Our rehabilitation medicine programs focus on:

• Spinal cord injury. Our Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Program offers a wide range of innovative medical and rehabilitation services, including our "Do It" program — a unique outpatient program that facilitates community integration.
• Brain injury. Individuals with cognitive and behavioral challenges need specialized treatment for successful integration back into the community. Our brain injury rehabilitation specialists are exceptionally qualified to meet these challenges.
• Sports therapy. Patients with a variety of musculoskeletal conditions receive comprehensive, individualized physical and occupational therapy at our Sports Therapy Center, conveniently located in midtown Manhattan.

Mount Sinai Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Ranks High in Quality

Mount Sinai's Rehabilitation Medicine Program is consistently ranked among the top rehabilitation centers in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. In the 2009-2010 report, Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Medicine ranked 19th out of 4,861 programs. hospitals.

Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Medicine is one of 16 programs designated by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) as a Model System of Care for Spinal Cord Injury and a Model System of Care for Traumatic Brain Injury. It is the only program named as a Research and Training Center for Traumatic Brain Intervention.

Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Medicine is the only Model System for Spinal Cord Injury in New York State. It is also the only Model System for Traumatic Brain Injury in New York State and one of only a few programs in the country designated by NIDRR as Model Systems of Care in Spinal Cord Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury, as well as a Research and Training Center.