Direct Admissions Program
Qualifying conditions for Spaulding's Direct Admission Program include:
- Parkinson’s disease and/or movement disorder
- Recent stroke with functional decline
- Gait disorders due to a known cause
- Recurrent falls due to a known cause
- Multiple sclerosis exacerbation (flare-up) with loss of function
- Brain or spinal cord injury with a need for specific skill training
- Post-polio syndrome
- Spasticity
- Other diagnoses considered on a case-by-case basis
Direct Admission Program Criteria
Criteria for Spaulding’s Direct Admission Program include:
- Patient meets Medicare criteria for medical necessity, which includes:
- Needs to be seen by a physician at least three times per week
- Requires, and is able to participate in, about three hours of therapy per day for at least five days per week
- Is expected to make measurable improvement in functional capacity or adapting to impairment that is of practical value
- Decline in function is related to a known condition or diagnosis
- Patient is motivated to participate
- Payment is available for program
- Community physician is in agreement with the referral
- Patient is age 15 or older
Locations
The Direct Admissions Program is available in the following locations:
