Admissions Criteria

Scope of Service

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston is a licensed 132-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility providing rehabilitative care for individuals with many different debilitating injuries, illnesses, and other medical conditions. All of our patients, from infancy to adulthood, benefit from the highly specialized care provided through our inpatient specialty programs. Our pediatric program provides services to patients under the age of 21 years.

Spaulding’s patients are primarily from the Boston and New England area, but also come from across the United States and other nations. The majority of referrals come from acute care hospitals but can also come from other sources, including but not limited to, physician offices, skilled nursing facilities, and outpatient physician referrals.

Spaulding is a Medicare and Medicaid certified provider and accepts most forms of insurance.

Financial Services are available to negotiate out of state, International, and self-pay agreements. The Financial Access Department develops the hospital’s fee schedule. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston does not discriminate based on payor source.

At Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston, special attention is given to ensure that an individual’s care recognizes each patient’s gender, cultural values, primary language, and ability to learn.

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston operates twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

Admission criteria

Each patient admitted to SRH is expected to have a diagnosis/condition which is known to benefit from comprehensive rehabilitation intervention. Functional limitations may include any of the following:

• Mobility deficits
• Activity of Daily Living performance limitations
• Feeding or swallowing deficits
• Speech, language or hearing deficits
• Cognitive, perceptual and/or sensory deficits

Each patient admitted for inpatient rehabilitation services is expected to meet the following criteria:

• Must be medically stable to allow for full participation in 3 hours of interdisciplinary rehabilitation treatments. Comprehensive therapy services may include: physical, occupational or speech and language therapy. Other services may include respiratory therapy, therapeutic recreation and/or psychology.

• Must require daily visits by a rehabilitation physician and 24-hour rehabilitation nursing care.
• Must demonstrate potential for functional and/or cognitive improvement in a reasonable length of time.
• Must have a reasonable discharge plan that provides the support demanded by the level of disability predicted at the time of discharge.