Rehabilitation Services Achievements and Awards

• Involvement in develop and preparation for Best Care for (Rehabilitation module)
• Establish and implement Pediatric Rehabilitation Screening clinic.
• Establish weekend service for Pediatric in-patients.
• Establish and implement new Pediatric Rehabilitation programs e.g.:
• Early Intervention program
• Oncology program
• Burn and hand program
• Musculoskeletal program
• Rheumatology program
• Commence back care education program for KASCH nursing staff.

2016

• Launching of most up to date high technology equipment's (Locomat, Documentation based care (DBC))
• Expanding a specialized rehabilitation amputation clinic

2017:

• Launching of the group therapy for adult and pediatric patients.
• Participate in Bone Health Program; Multidisciplinary team with Neonatal Intensive Care Department

2018:

• Collaboration between Rehabilitation services and other medical departments in:
• Pediatric Residency Program Training; Rehabilitation Services with Child Development and Behavior Services
• Feeding Program; Occupational therapy with Pediatric Gastroenterology Clinic
• Pediatric Obesity program; Physical Therapy and Pediatric Endocrinology clinic
• TMJ Program; Physical Therapy and Dental Clinic
• Rehabilitation services participated in pediatric fall risk committee
• Participate in (N95 train the trainers program) and hand hygiene champion with infection prevention and control department by certified therapists as trainers.

2019:

• Collaboration between Rehabilitation services and other medical departments in:
• Autism program; Occupational therapy with pediatric mental health department
• Fellowship Rehabilitation training program; Rehabilitation services with Rheumatology Department
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Best-care task force; collaboration with Quality and Patient Safety Department, Best Care team and knowledge Management Department for implement Rehabilitation KPIs dashboard
• Launching of "Packaging system" project; for Pediatric Physical and Occupational Therapy. Classifying patient packages of Follow-up appointments intensity (frequencies and duration)
• Rehabilitation Services Participation in Rowaad program:
• Pediatric Physical Therapy Project (Developmental Hip Dysplasia (DDH))
• Pediatric Rehabilitation Project (Accessibility to the Pediatrics' Rehabilitation services within a time frame of case category)
• Pediatric Rehabilitation Project (Packaging System for follow up patients)
• Lunching Rehabilitation portal system; collaboration with the Department of Information and Informatics Systems to establish and improve the patient portal system for electronic appointments booking in Rehabilitation services
• Participate in RISE (peer support) program organized by Quality and Patient Safety Department.

2020:

• Successful gradual de-escalation plan post Covid-19 for Outpatient clinics
• Launching Virtual clinics (Tele-Rehabilitation sessions) during COVID-19 pandemic
• Launching Evening Clinic during Covid-19 pandemic
• Launching of online Back Care and Safe Lifting Program (training and exam) for healthcare providers among MNGHA
• Rehabilitation services participate in KASCH newsletter.
• Collaboration between Rehabilitation services and other medical departments in:
• Complex Disease (chronic patients) Care; Rehabilitation services collaboration with Pediatrics Multidisciplinary team
• Home Health Care (HHC) Services and Pediatric Occupational Therapy
• Rehabilitation Department started new Quality Improvement Project;
• Pediatric Physical Therapy Project (Obesity program)

2021

• Ongoing Virtual clinics (Tele-Rehabilitation sessions) for high risk compromised cases; to be minimized not exceeding 10% of the service.
• Ongoing collaboration with Best Care Team for enhancing Rehabilitation module and patient portal
• Ongoing collaboration with Corporate Planning and Regulatory Affairs for implement new pediatric documentation form and outcome measure form
• Ongoing collaboration with Data and Business Intelligence Management (DBIM) department for Dashboard and KPI's
• Initiate Task Force at Cooperate Level to all Rehabilitation Services Department among all MNGHA Hospitals. Three Task Force were developed:
1. Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)
2. Clinical Guidelines and Standard of Practice
3. Early Mobility in ICU

• Collaboration between Rehabilitation services and other medical departments in:

• Spinal Muscular Dystrophy; Rehabilitation services with Pediatric Neurology Department
• Orthotic and Prosthetic onsite training; Rehabilitation services provide training in Orthotic and Prosthetic for two residents from Physical Medicine Department