About Our Program

Key facts about our Neurorehabilitation Program

• The Neurorehabilitation Program has 9 licensed beds.
• The program treats approximately 50 inpatients per year.
• 10 percent of our children are transferred to the Neurorehabilitation Program from other hospitals, while the remainder are referred from various specialists within the hospital.
• Age range of children is from 6 months to 21 years; average age is 10 years old.
• Length of stay ranges from 1 week to 12 or more weeks; average is approximately 4 weeks.
• Nearly 75 percent of children achieve their predicted goals by the time of discharge.
• Over 90 percent of children discharged from the program are able to go directly home.
  Over 60 percent of school-aged children return to school within 6 weeks of discharge from the hospital.
• Over 97 percent of parents rate the Neurorehabilitation Program as excellent.
• The St. Louis Children’s Hospital Neurorehabilitation Program is CARF accredited.