Tampa SCI Center CARF Fair James A Haley

Tampa SCI Center CARF Fair James A Haley Veterans’ Hospital Michael Bilirakis Spinal Cord Injury Center SCI Acute Rehabilitation Program 2020 Tampa, Florida Our Veterans and Service Members: Meeting Goals, Improving Lives Our SCI Acute Rehab Program: • For FY 18 -FY 19 our discharged to the community percentage after 1 year increased from 92% to 100%. • Functional Independence Measure (FIM) motor score improvement increased for all participants except those with ASIA D classification. • Patient satisfaction continues to improve and is high in all 5 domains. • PI plan results: • The ART FIM goals met increased to 92% • ARTs past participants that received their Comprehensive Preventive Health Evaluation increased from 63% in FY 16 to 90% in FY 19. • This year the time to rehab access increased slightly with more post surgical participants. • This year we did not have any participants with prior rehabilitation. • This is the fifth year that we have had Women Veterans/Service Members participate in our rehabilitation program. • Age was slightly younger this year but remains higher than the SCI model system and lower than the VA benchmark. • All of our participants have had traumatic injuries this year. This is very different than the VA benchmark of close to 50% traumatic vs non traumatic. • The rehab length of stay continues to be longer than the SCI Model System or the VA benchmark, but our patient mix contributes to LOS. November 19, 2020

Admissions Discharges Admissions and Discharges 59 50 25 23 22 17 12 10 FY 18 FY 19 FY 20 All