BRAIN INJURY PROGRAM OUTCOMES
The outcome measures include self-care and mobility discharge scores. Self-care measures, or the person served’ s ability to perform activities of daily living include: eating, grooming, personal hygiene, bathing and dressing. Mobility measures include activities like: positioning, transferring from different surfaces, walking, building endurance and tackling community skills of different surfaces, curbs, stairs, car transfers and safe fall recovery. Higher scores upon discharge show more improvement and preparation to go home and return to your community. Persons served at Renown Rehabilitation Hospital achieved discharge selfcare scores of 36.7 and discharge mobility scores of 72.3.
DISCHARGE SCORES
Self-Care
RENOWN
REGION
NATION
36.7 % 35.1 % 35.5 %
Mobility
RENOWN
REGION
NATION
70.3 %
72.3 %
71.4 %
* Risk Adjusted
WHERE DO THE PEOPLE WE SERVE GO AFTER REHABILITATION?
Discharging home is our goal and focus for the person served and their caregivers, 83 % of persons served went home. Brain injuries are complex. Nine percent of persons served needed to return for additional acute medical care compared to 8 % regionally and 10 % nationally. Not everyone is safe going home or has adequate support to go home. Seven percent were discharged to a long-term care facility as compared to 6 % regionally and 6 % nationally.
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