ABI Inpatient Services
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Overview
The Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Inpatient Service is a structured eight-bed inpatient program.
We focus on helping patients manage and improve difficulties in thinking skills, including memory, attention, learning, planning and problem-solving.
Patients also learn strategies to compensate for their difficulties, with the overall goal of helping them return to the community with the support they need.
The Ontario Ministry of Health funds The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre. There is no cost for standard care and equipment.
Services
The ABI Inpatient Service provides patient-focused assessment and treatment that involves patients, families and caregivers as rehabilitation partners. We strive to make patients as independent as possible, based on their own goals and those of their families.
Team
Our team brings together experts from different fields who work closely to support patients’ needs:
- Clinical nutrition.
- Clinical pharmacy.
- Nursing.
- Occupational therapy.
- Physiotherapy.
- Physiatry.
- Psychology.
- Social work.
- Speech-language pathology.
- Therapeutic recreation.
We encourage family and close friends to be part of patients' recovery journey. Our team provides them with helpful information and support, and we welcome their feedback on our services.
Referrals
We accept referrals from hospitals, physicians, health-care providers, family members, community services and insurance companies. We also accept self-referrals.
We accept referrals from the counties of:
- Renfrew.
- Lanark.
- Leeds and Grenville.
- Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.
- Prescott and Russell.
- Ottawa-Carleton.
- Western Quebec (inpatient treatment only).
While community-based services are limited to the counties listed, people from other areas will be considered for outpatient consultation and admission to inpatient services.
Once a referral is received
Review
The ABI admissions coordinator reviews the referral.
Assessment
The care stream physiatrist (doctor who specializes in rehabilitation) refers the patient to the most appropriate service or discipline(s).
Waiting list
Patients are placed on a waiting list for admission.
Triage
Patients are triaged for admission based on their referral timeline, level of urgency, readiness and services required.
Contact us
Service Nurse Clinician, Acquired Brain Injury Care Stream
613-737-7350 ext. 75406
613-733-8336
The Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre
505 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M2