Your Support Provides Highly Specialized Care For Highly Intricate Parts Of The Body
Our neurosciences and rehabilitation teams care for people who require brain or spinal treatment, and those who have rehabilitation needs after an illness, injury, or surgery. Because the brain is central to the body’s function, we need to be precise when analyzing, diagnosing, and treating injuries. This requires sophisticated and powerful equipment. Your directed donation helps fund these purchases so patients have the best chance at a full recovery.
“A donor like you can help create movement where there wasn’t any. And bring back a future to someone who still has a heart full of dreams and a head full of plans.”
— Peter, Grateful Rehabilitation Patient
Wide-Reaching Care
Once the initial danger posed by an injury, illness, or surgery has passed, many patients recover and rehabilitate in Victoria General Hospital’s 29-bed Neurological Rehabilitation Unit or in Royal Jubilee Hospital’s 25-bed Musculo-Skeletal Rehabilitation Unit. In addition to post-trauma care, our neuroscience experts treat a range of conditions including epilepsy, tumours, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. Victoria General Hospital operates a regional Stroke Program, and the Stroke Rapid Assessment Unit, two specialized teams that provide world-class stroke care in minimal time, often entirely circumnavigating effects of these potentially devastating events.
In a single year, our hospitals oversee
- 240+ brain surgeries
- 490+ stoke cases
- 670+ spinal surgeries
Wide-Reaching Care
Once the initial danger posed by an injury, illness, or surgery has passed, many patients recover and rehabilitate in Victoria General Hospital’s 29-bed Neurological Rehabilitation Unit or in Royal Jubilee Hospital’s 25-bed Musculo-Skeletal Rehabilitation Unit. In addition to post-trauma care, our neuroscience experts treat a range of conditions including epilepsy, tumours, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease. Victoria General Hospital operates a regional Stroke Program, and the Stroke Rapid Assessment Unit, two specialized teams that provide world-class stroke care in minimal time, often entirely circumnavigating effects of these potentially devastating events.
In a single year, our hospitals oversee
- 240+ brain surgeries
- 490+ stoke cases
- 670+ spinal surgeries
A Network Of Support Is Needed
With proper equipment, our medical teams can help patients on their road to recovery
In Rehabilitation, the role of the team is to maximize a patient’s potential and function. Just like any other doctor or caregiver, there are here the moment a patient comes in, but instead of focusing on the surgery or the stroke, the team looks at every other problem that can or will happen to a patient’s body as a consequence of their initial condition. For example, physiotherapists practice chest therapy on patients lying in hospital beds to prevent pneumonia, our physiatrists help stroke victims experiencing tight muscles to prevent permanent damage and our dieticians attend to a patient’s nutritional needs to ensure their body is nourished and therefore able to recover.
Royal Jubilee Hospital also operates the Multiple Sclerosis Clinic, providing the neurological, physiological, and psychiatric care necessary to ensure MS patients have the best possible outcomes. This includes psychiatry, neurological, and physical medicine consultation.
Help us offer neurologic patients a better future
Each of these areas require a variety of tools to offer the specialized and sophisticated care required to optimize patient outcomes With your donation to neurosciences & rehabilitation, we can invest in the equipment and programs that make a difference for patients suffering from these illnesses and injuries.
Patient Spotlight: Larry
The Long Road To Recovery
“It was not easy, but because our hospitals have the right equipment to help patients like me I was able to overcome one of the greatest challenges of my life. When I was finally able to enjoy food again, Val and I both cried tears of joy – and Lisa shared in that joy alongside us.”
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