RETURN! is a day treatment program that serves individuals aged 18 years or older who have sustained a brain injury through stroke, aneurysm, traumatic injury or other neurological condition. The goal of the program is to help people return-to-work, school or responsibilities at home. It offers a structured and consistent weekly schedule of group and individual therapies developed to improve memory, organization, comprehension and other thinking skills affected by brain injury.
RETURN! is led by experienced clinicians who create a unique approach to brain injury rehabilitation. Individuals in the program are encouraged to practice lost skills and learn strategies to overcome injury-related limitations. To increase independence in the community, they are asked to remember, understand, plan, organize, speak and socially interact with each other in the group setting.
A physical medicine and rehabilitation physician provides oversight of each client’s rehabilitation needs. Individual speech and language, physical, occupational, and psychological therapies are arranged based on specific client needs. As appropriate, a pre-vocational specialist addresses return-to work needs. These services are scheduled as part of the RETURN! Brain Injury Community Re-entry Program.
After Discharge
A detailed, personalized discharge plan is developed with each client created with input from the family and treatment team.
Why RETURN!?
- Experience and expertise
- Coordinated care of rehabilitation services
- Individualized therapy and treatment plans
- Supportive group environment
- Ongoing progress assessments
- Family-team conferences
- Adjustment counseling
- Planned community excursions to practice strategies and social skills
- Referrals as needed to the RETURN! To Work program at Sinai Rehabilitation Center
- Weekly psychosocial groups to address iissues of depression, anxiety and loss of self-esteem
For information about the RETURN!
Brain Injury Community Re-entry Program or about LifeBridge Health rehabilitation services, call 410-601-5540 or visit www.lifebridgehealth.org.
Experience and Expertise
- A history of serving brain injury survivors and their families since 1986
- A clinical staff with an average of 10 years of brain injury rehabilitation experience
- A multidisciplinary team including rehabilitation medicine physician, occupational therapy, physical therapy, pre-vocational training, recreational therapy, social work, speech language pathology and neuropsychology
Hours of operation for the RETURN! Brain Injury Community Re-entry Program are 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Monday to Friday.
RETURN! Program featured on WMAR TV Channel 2