About the Rehabilitation Center
Children’s Hospital has celebrated more than 50 years of serving the medical and surgical needs of the children of our region. Today’s strength resulted from the hospital’s solid foundation as a rehabilitation hospital, beginning in 1955. That strong commitment to pediatric rehabilitation continues, and it is even stronger today.
The Gilda Trautman Newman Rehabilitation Center at Children’s Hospital provides comprehensive interdisciplinary, team-oriented, family-centered inpatient services to patients from birth through 21 years. The unit specializes in treating patients with brain injury, cerebral palsy, developmental disability, feeding disorder, limb deficiency, myelodysplasia, neuromuscular disease, rheumatic disease, seizure disorder, spinal cord injury, stroke, ventilator dependence, and other congenital or acquired disabling disorders.
The center offers consulting medical services in more than 40 pediatric specialties. An individual, comprehensive treatment plan is developed for each patient and frequently reviewed by the interdisciplinary team. Discharge planning incorporates school planning, vocational referrals, community reintegration and access issues.
The comprehensive rehabilitative services and compassionate care provided by the center’s dedicated staff have dramatically improved the quality of life for thousands of children. We are extremely proud of our past accomplishments, but we never lose sight of our goal — “healing one child at a time.”
For more information or to refer a patient, please contact Lynn Kaska at (504) 896-2177 or
lkaska@chnola.org.