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 interdisciplinary
team offers consulting medical services for more than 40 pediatric specialties.
In addition, the facility, located on the sixth floor of the hospital’s
main campus, is accredited by the Commission for the Accreditation of
Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) and the Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
This unit is designed to provide the education and skills to prepare
the patients to go home after an acute stay. Often the medical needs are
met before the patients are fully ready to go home.
Children’s Hospital has celebrated more than 60 years of serving
the medical and surgical needs of the children of the 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.
To comprehensively support the patient and family through high-quality
medical care, therapy services, education, and advocacy in order to optimize
functional well-being and enhance quality of life in an atmosphere of
compassion and respect.
Family-centered care
When a child is injured or disabled it affects the entire family —
especially when rehabilitative care is necessary. Team members provide
a framework to help each family adjust to the child’s individual
abilities and offer emotional support to preserve and strengthen the family
during hospitalization. Recognizing and incorporating each family’s
unique qualities and individual cultural and religious beliefs are important
to the success of the program.
The family is crucial to the team’s success and is encouraged to
engage and participate in their child’s treatment.
Functional pediatric treatment
The rehabilitation goal for children and adolescents is to concentrate
on restoring abilities by helping them adapt to their new skills. Each
patient is followed using a criteria-based system to evaluate functional
skill development with respect to medical status, motor skills, cognitive
and communicative abilities, self-care capabilities and the family’s
needs. A comprehensive treatment plan tailored to the individual child
is developed. This interdisciplinary plan is reviewed and updated at weekly
team meetings. The team uses a nurse case management approach to coordinate
treatment plans with the child, family, physicians and team members. The
newly renovated therapy gym provides additional up-to-date modalities
and equipment for a full range of techniques for all of our patients.
Discharge planning incorporates transitioning to school, vocational referrals,
community reintegration and access issues.
Rehabilitation program facts:
Each year the rehabilitation program services individuals from multiple
parishes in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast region
Recreation resource guide
The Child Life and Creative Therapies Department at Children’s Hospital
developed a summer camp, adaptive sports and an accessible recreation
resource guide for children and teens who have chronic illnesses, physical
and cognitive challenges and live in the Gulf South. This guide includes
contact information that will help parents/caretakers get started in finding
activities and resources that are the best fit for their child, teen or
young adult.
Rehabilitation Unit in New Orleans
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