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The Rehabilitation and Research Center is a collaborative effort between the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center. The goals of the Rehabilitation and Research Center are to provide highly skilled, interdisciplinary, inpatient rehabilitative care to adults with complex needs; to be an advocate and educator for patients and people with disabilities; and to conduct research to advance the art and science of rehabilitation.

Rehabilitation at the RRC is an intensive inpatient program focused on assessment and therapeutic intervention, as well as discharge planning and follow-up. Interventions include dealing with medical needs, self-care, mobility, behavior, cognition, communication and psychosocial skills. The General Rehabilitation Unit has 27 beds and provides treatment for patients with neuromuscular or vascular accidents (stroke), or multiple trauma.

A self-contained 14-bed Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit treats adult patients with traumatic brain injuries stemming from accidents such as falls, gunshot wounds, assaults or car accidents, as well as those with nontraumatic injuries from causes such as aneurysms, hemorrhages or brain tumors.

The RRC’s specialized Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Program serves Central Virginia as a part of MCV Hospitals designated treatment center for Spinal Cord Injury. In addition, the Spinal Cord Injury, Brain Injury and Stroke programs are all part of an interdisciplinary Critical Pathway that coordinates and expedites care from initial injury through community re-entry. The VCU Media Center is one of just 16 institutions nationwide to have federal designation as a Model Systems of Care for both Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury.

The programs and services at the RRC have been designed to meet and exceed the high accreditation standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

Staff directory

Director
R. Macon Sizemore

Admission coordinator
Brenda Kitchen

The Rehabilitation and Research Center
Medical Center
Virginia Commonwealth University
P.O. Box 980661
Richmond, Virginia 23298-0661
Phone: (804) 828-2156
Fax: (804) 828-5074
E-mail: beagle@hsc.vcu.edu