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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.
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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.
We are accredited by the Commission for the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). |
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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.
The goal of the center is to provide family-centered, comprehensive pediatric rehabilitative care in which the interdisciplinary team maximizes the development of independent and productive life skills through training.
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 is important to the success of the program.
Family members are encouraged to attend therapy sessions with the patient to foster success in rehabilitation and reintegration into the community, school and vocation as appropriate. |
Read CeCe's Story
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The rehabilitation goal for children and adolescents is to concentrate on restoring abilities by helping them adapt to their new skills or gaining abilities never achieved because of congenital disorders. 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 program is reviewed and updated at regularly held staff meetings. The family is encouraged to interact with the rehabilitation team frequently, is kept informed of progress and is asked to provide input into the treatment plan. The team uses a nurse case-management approach to coordinate treatment plans with the child, family, physicians and team members. For more information or to refer a patient, please contact Lynn Kaska at (504) 896-2177 or lkaska@chnola.org. Click here to download the Rehabilitation Program's Scope of Service.
Children's Hospital Rehabilitation Program Outcomes
July 2010 - June 2011
91% of our school age children returned to school
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Impairment Catgegory |
No. of Cases |
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Average Length
of Stay (days) |
Wee Fim
Rating Change
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Sim.
Facilities
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Stroke |
6 |
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10
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13.15
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28.28
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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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28 |
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33
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26.33
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28.25
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Non-Traumatic Brain Injury |
13 |
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18
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19.50
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22.90
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Neuro Condition |
10 |
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20 |
36.87
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23.90
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Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
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9 |
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18 |
29.67
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25.17
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Pain Condition |
0 |
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0 |
0
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0
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Multi Major Trauma/Ortho |
13 |
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36 |
36.55
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29.00
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Failure to Thrive (FTT)/Debility |
1 |
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4 |
22.0
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19.63
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Amputation/Cardiac |
2 |
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23 |
14.50
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17.90
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Totals/Average |
79 |
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18
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25.11
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25.02
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Ages of Patients Seen
| 0-3 years |
15 |
| 3-5 years |
13 |
| 5-7 years |
12 |
| 7-10 years |
7 |
| 10+ years |
32 |
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Location of Patients by Parish/County
Acadia
Assumption
Avoyelles
Beauregard
Caddo
Calcasieu
Chenango County, NY
East Baton Rouge
Evangeline
Grant
Harrison County, MS
Iberia
Jefferson
Lafayette
Lafourche
Livingston
Orleans
Ouachita
Pearl River County, MS
Plaquemines
Rapides
St. Bernard
St. Charles
St. James
St. Landry
St. Tammany
Tangipahoa
Terrebonne
Vermilion
Washington
Webster
For more information or to refer a patient, please contact Lynn Kaska at (504) 896-2177 or lkaska@chnola.org.
Rehab Annual Reports
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