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Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan

The Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan (RIM) was founded in 1951 to provide exceptional care in physical medicine and rehabilitative services primarily to individuals who contracted polio and to veterans returning from World War II with disabling injuries. While the focus of disability has changed over the years, the mission to provide quality patient care, academic excellence and cutting-edge research in physical medicine and rehabilitation remains the same.

Today RIM is considered a national leader in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation. A member of the Detroit Medical Center, RIM with a dozen rehabilitation sites in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, remains the states leading specialty hospital and treatment center for adult physical medicine and rehabilitation. Licensed for 94-beds, RIM treats more than 1,600 inpatients a year and conducts over 125,000 outpatient visits annually. The Institute serves as a clinical training and research site for Wayne State University's School of Medicine and is one of the largest free-standing academic rehabilitation hospitals in the country. RIM, accredited by both the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitative Facilities (CARF) is recognized nationwide in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

In 2002, RIM was recognized for the third consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top 100 hospitals in the country. RIM offers comprehensive inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services for persons with neurological and musculoskeletal conditions including spinal cord and brain damage, stroke, geriatrics and occupational injures.

PROGRAMS

The Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan's clinical capabilities are broad and diverse and include physiatry, rehabilitation nursing, physical and occupational therapy, therapeutic recreation, neuropsychology, speech and language pathology, vocational rehabilitation, orthotics, educational programs and much more. RIM has received a federal designation as one of 17 centers of excellence in the United States for the treatment of brain injuries and maintains programs and services in stroke and geriatrics, spinal cord and traumatic brain injury, amputees, oncology, orthopedics, multiple sclerosis, sports injuries and occupational programs. In addition, the hospital operates a state-of-the-art Motion Analysis and Gait Laboratory focusing on improving human performance in walking, stair-climbing and overall proper body mechanics.

An academic teaching hospital, RIM collaborates with Wayne State University on research projects and is a major training facility for resident doctors specializing in physical and rehabilitation medicine (PM&R). RIM's residency program has trained more physicians in the field of PM&R than any other program in the country. Research grants help support RIM's five "Centers of Research Excellence", including the Institute for Spinal Cord Injury, the Brasza Center for Human Motion Analysis, the Institute for Traumatic Brain Injury, the Center for the Development of Telecommunications and Rehabilitation Education and the Quality of Life Research Center.

We welcome you to visit our main campus facility at 261 Mack Boulevard in the heart of the Detroit Medical Center. If you would like additional information or wish to have a private tour of the facility, please call our Development office at (313) 745-9817

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• Brasza Outpatient Center

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