BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE and its Affiliated Institutions
The Center for Research on Women with Disabilities is located near Baylor College of Medicine and its affiliated institutions and The University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston School of Public Health in the Texas Medical Center. Recruitment of research subjects may be carried out in Houston Metropolitan Area from the following local hospitals and community based organizations.
Harris County Hospital District
Ben Taub General Hospital, a 550-bed acute medical-surgical care facility, offers a Level I Trauma Center with five specialized emergency suites. The Hospital offers extensive inpatient and outpatient services to eligible Harris County citizens of all ages. Patients with acute and chronic illnesses and injuries provides ample opportunity for clinical and research activities.
Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital is a 318-bed general medical and surgical facility of the Harris County Hospital District. The District's Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Psychiatry Inpatient Services occupy the 100-bed Quentin Mease Community Hospital. Outpatient clinics include a community health clinic.
Services Offered
Rehabilitative services range from managing acute soft tissue injuries and illnesses to comprehensive restorative rehabilitation of severely disabled patients with head and spinal cord injuries. At Ben Taub General Hospital, the Service provides an adult and pediatric inpatient consultation service and an inpatient electrodiagnostic testing service. Outpatient clinics includes general PM&R Pediatric, multidisciplinary pediatric trauma and geriatric.
The Service includes a comprehensive rehabilitation inpatient unit, outpatient general and specialty PM&R Clinics, and an inpatient and outpatient electrodiagnostic service. During the academic year, the inpatient rehabilitation unit was expanded from 17 to 25 beds. The Service provides physiatric-directed treatment programs for long-term rehabilitation inpatients with followup as outpatients. This includes complete evaluations, test procedures and comprehensive treatment; conditions treated include CVA, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and multiple extremity trauma.
At Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital, an inpatient consultation service, adult and pediatric and an inpatient electrodiagnostic testing service, adult and pediatric, are offered.
The Methodist Hospital/Smith Tower
The Methodist Hospital is a 1,218-bed private, acute medical-surgical referral center. The large inpatient and outpatient population is followed fro general rehabilitation needs and includes a 42-bed DRG-exempt comprehensive rehabilitation unit.
Services Offered
Physiatrist provide total patient care through a number of primary services; i.e., Bed Service, Consultation Service, Diagnostic Service and special clinics including Prosthetics and Chronic Pain. The 42-bed inpatient bed service treats patients requiring comprehensive interdisciplinary rehabilitation. The consult service provides attending physicians with a needed Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation referral source. Diagnostic evaluation services include thermography and electrodiagnostic testing of neuromuscular, muscular, and neurological conditions.
The Hospital's main unit consists of 12, 100 square feet of space, including treatment areas, hydrotherapy, EMG, gymnasium, waiting rooms, a training kitchen, splinting area and an ADL bathroom. The Smith Tower office consists of 4,800 square feet of space, including offices for physicians and administrative staff and treatment/examination/patient waiting area.
The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research (TIRR)
The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, a private rehabilitation hospital of 92 beds, is internationally recognized for restoring people with a wide range of disabilities. Research commitment is a major aspect of TIRR's mission-reflected in grant awards, faculty involvement and new developments in patient care.(http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/ilru/)
TIRR is a full-service JCAHO accredited hospital specializing in medical, surgical, and rehabilitation care for persons physically disabled by injury or disease. Founded 1959 by Dr. William A. Spencer, TIRR has earned national recognition for success in treating a wide range of conditions.
TIRR is one of the few rehabilitation hospitals in the world capable of providing comprehensive care for even the most severely disabled persons.
The TIRR professionals include physicians, rehabilitation nurses, neuropsychologist, physical and occupational therapists, respiratory and recreational therapists, social workers, orthotist, vocational counselors, and speech-language pathologists. These professionals are dedicated to restoring each patient to an active and productive life as early and as costs-effectively as possible. TIRR has one of the few comprehensive pediatric rehabilitation programs in Texas; and has a Model Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System, a Model Traumatic Brain Injury System with two Research and Training Centers, supported by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
Services Offered
This rehabilitation facility offers all of the special services to assist disabled persons to lead active, productive, and satisfying lives within their capabilities. Comprehensive rehabilitation programs for adults and children include spinal cord injury, brain injury, neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal, stroke, amputation, sports arts injuries, cerebral palsy and post-polio; ranging from acute rehabilitation through long-term follow-up.
Clinical experience is combined with imaginative programs of clinical research. Services and research include restorative surgeries, driver training program, tissue pressure evaluation and management, orthotics, speech, rehabilitation engineering technologies, neuropsychology and respiratory management.
The Pediatric Day Hospital Program is designed for patients who do not need intense inpatient rehabilitation, but more than traditional outpatient services.
The Brain Injury Day Hospital Program ranges from acute rehabilitation through long term follow-up responding to the unique needs of individuals whose physical and/or cognitive abilities require a structured inpatient program, but who are able to live at home safely with family or other caregivers. Services are provided through an interdisciplinary team approach.
The Challenge Program facilitates entry back into the community for adults who have sustained a serious brain injury. This outpatient day treatment program prepares the brain injured survivor for return to work, school, or home. Therapies teach strategies to compensate for deficits which affect learning, recall, reasoning, perception, communication, and decision making.
The intrathecal baclofen pump is a service which uses an implantable fusion pump offering a safe, effective treatment alternative for individuals who suffer from intractable spasticity which has not responded to other conservative medical treatment. The primary diagnosis of past pump recipients include spinal cord injury, brain injury, dystonia, and cerebral palsy.
The Pain Management Program was established for patients with physical disabilities who have chronic pain problems. The program offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to evaluate and treat patients; improve the quality of life and functional capacity of these individuals by modification of medicine, reducing pain and increasing activity. Patients include those with pain and spinal cord injury, stroke, brain injury, amputee, neuromuscular degenerative disease, and post polio.
Hermann Hospital
Hermann Hospital is the primary teaching hospital of The University of Texas Houston Medical School. Founded in 1925 as the first hospital in the Texas Medical Center, this large metropolitan general hospital has a long-standing record of distinction in postgraduate teaching. As a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian institution, it offers a broad range of standard inpatient services, as well as special units in intensive care, advanced diagnostic facilities and active outpatient and emergency services. It serves as the center of clinical activity for the full-time faculty who work closely with volunteer and part-time physicians who have long been active in Hermann Hospital. The hospital has been renovated, and a $25 million addition of 300 beds was opened in 1977. Medical students at The University Texas Health Science Centers at Houston have a major portion of their clinical experience in the 90-bed Hermann Hospital, with a staff of 3,000 employees and 1,500 active voluntary and house staff physicians.
The Hermann Emergency Center is one of two Category I emergency care facilities located within the Houston metroplex, and is a Level I Shock/Trauma Center. The Center provides comprehensive emergency services treating approximately 35,000 patients annually. The Center operates the city's only 24-hour hospital-based air emergency service called Life Flight. Currently there are three Life Flight helicopters, which service a 150-mile radius from the hospital and fly a physician a flight nurse on board for each emergency rescue mission. Life Flight LD (Long Distance) is a fixed-wing aircraft which is capable of transporting critically ill patients from anywhere in the world.
Included in the general medical services provided at Hermann are medicine, surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry, and obstetrics/gynecology. The psychiatric care units provide 24-hour emergency procedures, separate programs for adolescents and adults, an alcohol treatment unit, a geriatric unit, and a general psychiatry unit. Obstetrical services include labor and delivery, appropriate clinics, perinatal identification process for high-risk pregnancies and deliveries, arrangements for natural childbirth, rooming-in facilities, and fathers in the delivery room. The 72-bed Children's center includes a pediatric intermediate care unit and an intensive care unit. Separate from the center is the 12-bed Turner Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the low-risk nursery, and the neonate intermediate care unit.
Specialized areas of patient care include orthopedics, medical intensive care, surgical intensive care, gastroenterology, urology, cardiac care, enterostomal therapy, neurology, neurosurgery intensive and intermediate care, renal transplant, and nephrology. The Texas Kidney Institute is a 53-bed unit which provides care for people of all ages with kidney disease. Services include dialysis, renal transplant and general medical care for nephrology patients. The Institute for Thermal Injuries provides specialized care to patients with all degrees of burns in a 15-bed unit, which incorporates a multidisciplinary team approach. The Institute for Thermal Injuries is one of only two comprehensive burn facilities in the Houston-Galveston area. The Hermann Eye Center, a joint venture of Hermann Hospital and the Medical School, is a facility combining patient care, teaching, and research. Patient care is provided to both inpatients and out-patients, ranging from surgical treatments to routine eye and vision examinations.
Additional clinical facilities include the St. Joseph Hospital, The Memorial Hospital System, the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, and the San Jose Clinic.
back to BCM home page
- copyright © 1996-97 BCM