Inpatient Rehabilitation: Medical Complexity: Finding the Sweet Spot

Thursday, October 13, 2022

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM ET

Community Session Director(s)

Lauren T. Shapiro, MD, MPH, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Vice Chair Quality, Safety, & Compliance
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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Community Session Faculty(s)

Craig DiTommaso, MD (he/him/his)

Medical Director / Director of Early Career Physician Development
PAM Health / US Physiatry
Houston, Texas

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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Jegy Tennison, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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David P. Steinberg, MD MMM

Department Chair and Executive Medical Director, Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital
University of Utah, Department of PM&R
Salt Lake City, Utah

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

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Our panelists will discuss how their inpatient rehabilitation programs have been able to provide safe, high-quality care to the very medically complex, including those with cancer, advanced heart failure, transplant, and sequelae of COVID-19. They will address the necessary staff training, equipment, and relationships with acute care teams and consultants. They will describe how they best optimize the patients for participation and progress with therapy, as well as how they prepare such patients to return to community settings after discharge. Each panelist will discuss at least one patient case to highlight key considerations, and audience polling will be used throughout to capture the thoughts and practices of the audience. We anticipate leaving 15-20 minutes at the end of the session for Q&A and networking time.

Learning Objectives:

Identify trends in persons served in inpatient rehabilitation facilities.
Describe measures inpatient rehabilitation facilities can take to improve their ability to provide care to medically complex patients.
List three potential interventions that may improve a medically complex patient's ability to participate and progress in therapy.
Outline best practices to prepare medically complex patients to return home following inpatient rehabilitation.