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Intensive Rehabilitation Unit (IRU)

Phone: 203.789.3868
Email: [email protected]

Rehabilitation is hard work, whether you are recovering from a stroke, illness or injury. Saint Raphael’s Intensive Rehabilitation Unit (IRU) offers more one-on-one daily therapy than most other facilities.  Our IRU has a shorter average stay than other hospitals in the region because our patients show quicker rates of improvement.

In our state-of-the-art, 18-bed inpatient unit (with 24-hour care), we offer:

  • At least three hours of intensive, individualized therapy including physical, occupational and speech therapies up to 7 days a week
  • Care coordinated by a physician specializing in rehabilitation
  • Multidisciplinary care, including specially trained rehabilitation nurses, social workers, speech and language pathologists
  • Leading-edge technology
  • Nutrition counseling
  • Home-care planning
  • On-site pharmacy
  • Outpatient therapy

Our care staff includes:

  • Attending physicians
  • Attending surgeons
  • Advanced practice nurses and physicians assistants
  • Rehabilitation nurses
  • Physiatrists (physicians specializing in restoring functin after illness or injury)
  • Physical therapists
  • Occupational therapists 
  • Speech and language pathologists
  • Nutritionists/Dietitians
  • Care managers
  • Social workers
  • Chaplains representing multiple faiths 

Patients may have experienced one of the following diagnoses and conditions:

  • Stroke
  • Neurological disorders such as:  multiple sclerosis, Guillain-Barré, Parkinson’s disease
  • Amputation of a lower extremity
  • Hip fracture
  • Major multiple trauma
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Bilateral total joint replacement
  • Unilateral total joint replacement if over 85 years of age
  • Brain injury
  • Severe osteoarthritis*
  • Severe rheumatoid arthritis*
  • Systemic vasculitis*
  • Severe burns
  • Congenital anomalies

*After completion of three-week outpatient program without significant improvement. 

Saint Raphael’s Intensive Rehab Unit has a lower length of stay than other units and hospitals in the region and nation.

Our patients also have a quicker rate of improvement than other facilities

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Source: Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation, a national database for documenting the severity of patient disability and outcomes of medical rehabilitation

Patients admitted to the IRU are discharged from their hospital of care (whether that is the Hospital of Saint Raphael or another healthcare facility) and then admitted to the unit. On admission, patients should have several complete changes of clothing, including socks and comfortable walking shoes and their own toiletries.

Visiting hours
Weekdays: 3 – 8 p.m.
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.

For more information
Intensive Rehabilitation Unit
Hospital of Saint Raphael
1450 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Phone: 203-789-3868
[email protected]

 

Page last updated on Aug. 09, 2010