Medical and Vocational Rehabilitation
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Find a hospital/PT/OT/nursing home
- American Physical Therapy Association
- Handy Guide to Choosing a PT: tinyurl.com/2yke4c
Find a PT: tinyurl.com/dwx4g
Phone: 800/999-2782 (v); 703/683-6748 (TDD) - American Speech Language Hearing Association
- Find a speech therapist: www.asha.org/proserv/
Phone: 800/638-8255 - Case Management Resource Guide Online
- Search by health related state agencies and/or search main for facilities, hospitals, home care, etc.
Managed by Dorland Healthcare Information
Toll Free: 800/784-2332, 215/875-1212
www.cmrg.com
www.cmrg.com/searchmain.cfm - Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF)
- CARF promotes the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served.
Toll Free: 888/281-6531 (V/TTY), 520/325-1044
www.carf.org - Consumer Guide to Choosing a High Quality Medical Rehabilitation Program
- A free, 40-page guide with checklists, questions to ask, and a great glossary of terms to help you find the right rehabilitation facility for your needs. www.naric.com/public/choosingquality.pdf
- Consumer Reports Nursing Home Guide
- August 2006 report on the nursing home industry which discusses problems with nursing home care, how to find a good nursing home, who pays for care, etc. Also includes a listing of "deficient" homes noted for poor care.
www.consumerreports.org/health/doctors-hospitals/nursing-home-guide/0608_nursing-home-guide.htm
guide/0608_nursing-home-guide.htm - Directory of "find a..." Listings from Medline Plus
- Provides links to directories to help you find health professionals, services and facilities. Includes: Doctors/Dentists, Hospital/Clinics, Other Health Care Providers.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directories.html - DoctorFinder through the American Medical Association (AMA)
- DoctorFinder provides you with basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States. This database includes more than 690,000 doctors.
webapps.ama-assn.org/doctorfinder/home.html?aps/amahg.htm - Hospital Compare: A Disability.gov Quality Health Care Tool
- This tool provides information on how well hospitals care for all their adult patients relating to certain conditions or procedures. Information provided assists in comparing the quality of care hospitals provide.
www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov - Hospital Finder
- www.hospitalselect.com
- Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Organizations (JCAHO)
- Toll Free: 800/994-6610
www.jcaho.org
Search for an accredited facility: www.jointcommission.org/AccreditationPrograms - Movement Disorder Treatment and Rehabilitation Directory (MDTRD)
- MDTRD is an online public-access database of doctors in the United States who diagnose and treat patients with movement disorders.
Email: wemove@wemove.org
www.wemove.org/TCD/adult.asp - Special Focus Facility (SFF) Initiative
- Through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this listing contains information on the worse rated nursing homes.
www.cms.hhs.gov/CertificationandComplianc/Downloads/SFFList.pdf - U.S. News and World Report – Listing of Best Hospitals
- Includes the top 15 rehabilitation hospitals.
www.usnews.com/usnews/health/best-hospitals/tophosp.htm
Find your local Vocational Rehabilitation office or Career One-Stop
- One-Stop Career Centers
- CareerOneStop is a U.S. Department of Labor-sponsored Web site that offers career resources and workforce information to job seekers, students, businesses, and workforce professionals to foster talent development in a global economy.
www.careeronestop.org
Phone: 877/US2-JOBS; 877/889-5627 - Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
- Toll Free: 800-526-7234 (V/TTY) in the United States
Phone Worldwide: 304-293-7186 (V/TTY)
Calls are answered from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST, Monday through Thursday and on Fridays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Machines answer after-hours calls.
http://askjan.org/cgi-win/TypeQuery.exe?902 - California Department of Rehabilitation
- Information on California rehabilitation services and links to local offices.
Phone: 916/263-8981
www.rehab.cahwnet.gov - California Client Assistance Program
- Toll Free: 800/952-5544 (V), 866/712-1085 (TTY)
www.rehab.cahwnet.gov/CAP
Research Centers, Professional Organizations, Agency Resources
- National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research (NCMRR) – Part of NICHD
- Toll Free: 800/370-2943 (V), 888/320-6942 (TTY)
Email: NICHDInformationResourceCenter@mail.nih.gov
www.nichd.nih.gov/about/ncmrr/ncmrr.htm# - National Rehabilitation Association (NRA)
- NRA is a member organization whose mission is to promote ethical and excellent practice in rehabilitation.
Phone: 703/836-0850 (V), 703/836-0849 (TTY)
Email: info@nationalrehab.org
www.nationalrehab.org - Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
- Phone: 703/524-6686 (v); 703/524-6639 (TTY)
www.resna.org