MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital | 20010 | MedStar Health

Welcome to MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital

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Why choose us

We are the region's largest acute rehabilitation hospital. MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital is responsible for treating some of the nation’s most complex cases, due to our research partnership with Georgetown University School of Medicine, our highly specialized physicians, and our continued use of the latest technology; we are prepared to treat any injury. 

The mission of the MedStar National Rehabilitation Network is to serve the community as a regional and national leader in rehabilitation services through five major areas: 

  • Quality patient care in inpatient, outpatient, and day treatment programs 
  • Rehabilitation research 
  • Education and training of rehabilitation professionals and the community 
  • Assistive technology that helps persons with disabilities live productive lives 
  • Advocacy - working with persons with disabilities to communicate their needs to policymakers at the local, state, and national levels

We are the region’s (DMV) largest acute rehabilitation hospital, and a proud part of the MedStar Health system. 

Our founding credo is “Adding Life to Years®.” While acute care is adding years to people’s lives, the goal and foundation of our clinical work is to make sure that people achieve their maximum level of function and independence and get back to home, work, and life. That goal guides who we are and what we do.

Visiting our hospital

MedStar National Rehabilitation Network is located in Washington, D.C. In recent years, we have dramatically increased our outpatient network with more than 50 locations in the greater Washington, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia region. Going forward, we aim to expand both our inpatient services and our outpatient network to continue to meet the needs of the community.

Patient and visitor information

We are strongly committed to our patient’s recovery and their continuum of care. Besides our inpatient services, our Day Treatment programs, and many support groups, we also have a large Outpatient Network, containing 50+ outpatient locations across Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Northern Virginia.

In-patient experience

Patients and their families truly feel at home when they come to us. Our hospital has the unique ability to not only provide renowned rehabilitative care, but provide hope and emotional support to patients and their families after a devastating injury.

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Meet our providers

Our rehabilitation hospital is home to some of the region's top physicians. Our doctors practice at locations across the Baltimore and Wash ...

Commitment to health equity

Providing an exceptional patient experience and outcomes includes focusing on health equity.

In spring of 2023, we formally established our Health Equity operational structure, which consists of a Health Equity Leaders Coordinating Council (HELCC) that leads the work within the entities, and Health Equity Workgroups that provide actionable intelligence to inform the identification of healthcare disparity reduction priorities in partnership with the HELCC. The MedStar Health Quality & Safety Steering Committee serves as the governing body to approve the system priorities and sponsors the health equity initiatives. Together, these groups will develop and implement data-driven and community informed health equity strategies to reduce disparities across the system.

Health Equity Leaders Coordinating Council members were appointed at each entity to oversee execution to generate health equity advances within their entities and contribute to the implementation of systemwide health care disparity priorities reduction.

Health Equity Workgroups consist of multidisciplinary subject matter experts and key stakeholders from across the system, including all 10 hospitals, Home Care and Ambulatory Care. The workgroup synthesizes recommendations for health equity initiatives that are data-driven and community-engaged and support entity action plans. They focus on investigating options to improve performance, address gaps in existing demographic and language data, increase cultural humility in patient demographic data collection, and eliminate any systemic bias that affects equitable care.

Social Needs Tool and Patient Data Optimization – As race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other factors can render a patient subject to disparate care, we are working to improve the completeness and accuracy of data needed to support health equity initiatives. We want to ensure our patient data reflects the way our patients identify themselves and want to be represented. Beyond mere data capture, this entails educating our frontline teams about interpersonal approaches and methods that ensure appropriate interactions with patients.

In January 2024, Acute Case Management, Nursing, and Community Health collaborated to generate a new protocol to expand screening for social drivers of health social needs screening. All adult patients admitted to medicine, surgery or critical care are screened for unmet social needs such as housing, food, safety or transportation. As of June 2024, this initiative had generated 41,387 screenings, with nearly 2,300 social needs identified. Of patients with identified needs, 98% received a bilingual postcard to the MedStar Health Social Needs Tool and an opportunity to connect with Community Health for linkage to support services. An additional 600 screenings were completed at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital since the program was implemented there in March.

Cultural Humility in Demographic Data Collection: A new training program nurtures an inclusive experience at registration as associates acquire patient demographic data, Added features in our registration system support more complete and accurate data collection. Our frontline teams learn about interpersonal approaches and methods that ensure appropriate interactions with patients during the intake process. Cultural Humility training is required of all associates in patient-facing roles that collect personal information. More than 600 associates completed training within the first month of rollout.

 

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Explore Nursing at MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital

Stories from around the hospital

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Classes and events

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Explore our medical education opportunities

Our research and educational partnership with Georgetown University has led to national leadership; together we lead a national program training junior faculty scientists in neurorehabilitation. Along with Georgetown, we maintain partnerships with other outstanding universities in our region.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency 

Brain Injury Medicine Fellowship

Cancer Rehabilitation Fellowship

Sports Medicine Fellowship