How We Compare: What You Need To Know

First, you need to know that you have a choice.

Choosing a hospital for rehabilitative care is a major decision—one that will affect every aspect of a patient’s life. Those who have suffered brain injury, spinal injury, stroke or other neurologic or orthopedic illness deserve the best possible chance at recovery.

What should you look for? Proven expertise.

For more than 30 years, Methodist Rehabilitation Center’s sole focus has been to provide treatment for people with neurologic or orthopedic illnesses or injuries.

We don’t deliver babies. We don’t treat cancer.

Instead, we offer the most comprehensive programs for stroke, spinal and brain injury survivors. But our expertise doesn’t stop there. Through our orthopedic, neurologic, amputee and pain management clinics, we provide care for a wide range of people—from amateur athletes with sports injuries to those with chronic pain.

Before you choose a hospital for yourself or your loved one, we invite you to compare our experience and the services we offer to other rehabilitation facilities in Mississippi.

  Experience Counts

Number of Spinal Cord Injury Patients Treated in 2006
Methodist—180 | 159—Largest Mississippi Hospitals Combined
Methodist treated 53.1% of spinal injury patients in Mississippi last year, more than any other hospital in the state. In fact, our closest competitor only treated 40 patients in 2006.

Number of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Treated in 2006
Methodist—170 | 174—Largest Mississippi Hospitals Combined
Methodist treated 49.4% of brain injury patients in Mississippi last year, more than any other hospital in the state. In fact, our closest competitor only treated 50 patients in 2006.

Number of Stroke Patients Treated in 2006
Methodist—264 | 1218—Largest Mississippi Hospitals Combined
Methodist treated 17.8% of stroke patients in Mississippi last year, more than any other
 hospital in the state.  In fact, we treated 65 more stroke patients than our closest competitor.

Methodist Rehabilitation Center also treated more neurologic and multiple trauma patients than any other hospital offering rehabilitation services in Mississippi in 2006. The statistics above—from the Mississippi State Department of Health—include Methodist Rehabilitation Center and the 14 largest hospitals in Mississippi that offer rehabilitation services.

  Who Offers What? 

Dedicated Floors for Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke Patients
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Our brain injury, spinal injury and stroke programs are housed on separate floors and each have a staff dedicated to the treatment of that specific injury or illness.

Patient Care Directed by Physicians Who Specialize in
Spinal and Brain Injuries
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Methodist is home to several physiatrists—physicians trained in physical medicine and rehabilitation—who specialize in spinal cord injury and brain injury treatment and research. 

Separate Therapy Gyms for Brain Injury, Spinal Injury and Stroke Patients
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
TBI, SCI and stroke patients at Methodist participate in physical and occupational therapy in separate gyms dedicated to their specific injury or illness.

Opportunities for Patients to Participate in Clinical Trials
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Through Methodist’s Center for Neuroscience and Neurological Research, patients have opportunities to participate in research and clinical trials that hopefully will benefit themselves and others like them. 

A Community Reintegration Program for Brain Injury Survivors
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Quest is Methodist's outpatient program designed to help brain
injured patients reintegrate into society.
 
An Opportunity for Patients to Benefit From Groundbreaking West Nile Virus Research 
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
A team of researchers at the Center for Neuroscience and Neurological Recovery at Methodist Rehabilitation Center garnered international recognition for being the first to report a link between West Nile virus and a polio-like form of paralysis.

A Driver Training Program for People with Disabling Conditions
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Methodist’s driver training program provides driving evaluations and training for people with disabling conditions such as brain injury, stroke, quadriplegia, paraplegia, spina bifada, dementia and brain tumors. 

Therapeutic Recreation Programs for Former Patients
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Methodist's therapeutic recreation program offers spinal cord-injured patients an opportunity to get back in the game by participating in organized sports programs. 

A Long-term Care Residential Facility for Severely Disabled
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Methodist specialty Care Center in Flowood is the state’s first long-term care residential facility for the severely disabled. The 60-bed center provides specialized care for patients whose medical needs are too complex for traditional long-term care facilities.

Works to Ensure Patients Have Opportunities for Accessible Housing
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Methodist worked with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to build Webb Park in Jackson and Wofford Park in Hattiesburg—completely accessible apartment complexes designed for wheelchair users. Methodist and HUD are working together again to build Miller Park in Meridian, another accessible apartment building.

Patients Receive Priority Access to Accessible Housing and Long-term Care
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Patients treated at Methodist are first in line for our accessible apartment complexes and our long-term residential care facility—Methodist Specialty Care Center.

A Quality of Care Recognized Nationally by U.S. News & World Report
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Methodist has twice been named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. 

Opportunities for Patients to Benefit From Knowledge Gained From Participation in
National Traumatic Brain Injury Model System
Methodist—Yes | No—All Other Mississippi Hospitals
Methodist has twice been named one of only 16 Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems sites in the nation, putting it at the forefront of exciting improvements in the treatment of TBI.