Peninsula Hospital Center

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Acute Brain Rehabilitation (ABR)

The Traumatic Brain Injury, Coma Recovery Program and Acute Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at Peninsula Hospital Center provide comprehensive interdisciplinary care and intensive rehabilitation for people who have suffered traumatic brain injuries or related disorders.

The program admits people with traumatic/acquired brain injury, brain tumor, cerebrovascular accident, anoxia, encephalitis, toxic encephalopathy, metabolic disorder and other neurological conditions resulting in diffuse brain dysfunction.

Our interdisciplinary staff meets regularly to measure progress and discuss programs that maximize the recovery of each person – helping him or her function at the highest level possible – physically, cognitively, emotionally and socially.

Peninsula Hospital Center’s Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Acute Brain Rehabilitation (ABR) teams are staffed by an interdisciplinary team of specialists – specifically trained in traumatic and stroke brain injury rehabilitation – who believe the sum of their collective experiences, abilities and judgments produces the best possible treatment for each patient.

Peninsula Hospital Center’s TBI-ABR Program is housed in warm, attractive, modern facilities with state-of-the-art equipment and is known for its uncommon concern for each patient’s well-being and recovery – a concern which has contributed greatly to the Center’s established reputation for acute brain rehabilitation.

Peninsula Hospital Center’s Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Acute Brain Rehabilitation (ABR) teams

The Brain Injury team consists of physicians specializing in rehabilitative medicine (physiatrists), neurologists, psychologists, rehabilitation nurses, speech pathologists, physical, occupational and recreation therapists, audiologists, dieticians and social workers.

In the TBI-ABR Program, each patient is under the care of his or her own physiatrists who works closely with each member of the patient’s full team of professionals and, at the same time, helps to educate and counsel the patient’s. Families are a welcome and important part of our team. Throughout the day, families interact with staff, visit and socialize with patients, attend, observe and learn from our therapy sessions and participate in team meetings. Family input into goal-setting and planning for each patient is highly valued. family.

Cognitive Rehabilitation

An interdisciplinary team provides coordinated, individualized cognitive rehabilitation to held each patient restore or compensate for deficits in attention and concentration, memory and learning, problem-solving, planning, judgment and other areas of cognition. A wide rage of approaches is used from computer training to compensatory memory aids… with the emphasis always on teaching skills which patients can apply in their everyday lives at home, school and work.

Basic home skills are emphasized