Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital (CRH) provides comprehensive medical rehabilitation services, for both outpatient and inpatient care, to empower people with disabilities to achieve optimal quality of life. For more than 50 years, the 38-bed, not-for-profit facility (formerly known as Rehabilitation Institute of Santa Barbara) has been recognized for excellence, innovation and excellent outcomes of care.
The rehabilitation team employs a transdisciplinary approach to the rehabilitation process to address the medical, physical, cognitive, neuropsychological and family needs of the patient. Working together physicians, therapists and nurses develop individualized courses of treatment to help each patient set and reach practical, patient-focused goals.
Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital's full range of services include:
- Acute Rehabilitation
- Pain Management
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Outpatient Brain Injury Services
- Psychology/Neuropsychology
- Speech and Language Pathology
- Stroke Rehabilitation
- Therapeutic Recreation
Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital features the Tuohy Foundation Aquatic Center which offers an important adjunct or substitution to land-based therapy treatments. The resistive properties of water can provide muscular challenge for improving strength and endurance. CRH offers a variety of aquatic therapy classes and programs for patients as well as community members.
Through its Keck Center for Outpatient Services, CRH offers adaptive driving services including a pre-driving evaluation, behind-the-wheel evaluation, driver training and evaluation and training on adaptive equipment. The services are for any patient or community member whose physical or cognitive disability has the potential to impair driving ability.
The Harris and Fredda Meisel Gallery of Art is unique feature of CRH which brings healing arts to the population and staff. The gallery offers a large space for group exhibitions and offers both permanent and rotating installations.
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