WHO WE SERVE
Background: Madonna's Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program is designed to meet the needs of persons with both traumatic and non-traumatic brain injury. Examples of non-traumatic brain injury include brain tumor, brain hemorrhage, or encephalitis, such as that caused by West Nile Virus. Approximately 70% of patients with brain injury served by Madonna last year had traumatic injuries.
Ages: Madonna serves people of all ages with brain injury. Traumatic brain injury does affect a large number of younger people. In fact, last fiscal year over 40% of inpatients with brain injury were under the age of 31 years old and 30 patients, or 20% were 18 years old or younger.
Geographic Area: Madonna serves people from a wide region of the Midwest. Although a majority of inpatient patients live in Nebraska, last year we served a number of patients with brain injury who live in Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, Minnesota and South Dakota.
Level of Injury: Madonna's multiple levels of care means that we can care for patients with a wide range of severity. We may be able to serve patients who are as low as Level II on the RANCHO Scale or as high as those with concussion or classified with a mild traumatic brain injury.
Volumes: During its most recent fiscal year ending June 30, 2007 Madonna served a total of 218 inpatients with brain injury. A majority of the patients (123) were served on the Acute Rehabilitation Hospital (AR), 30 patients with brain injury as primary diagnosis and 60 with ventilator or tracheostomy as primary diagnosis and brain injury as secondary diagnosis were served on the Long Term Acute Care Hospital (LTACH) and 5 were served on Sub-Acute Rehabilitation (SAR).
On an outpatient basis, a total of 279 new patients with brain injury were served. Of these, 38 were served in the Rehabilitation Day Program and the rest received services at TherapyPlus, Main Campus. Many of these patients received services as part of the Comprehensive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment and treatment, while others received single service treatment or were seen in the Brain Injury Clinic.
