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Peer Mentor Program at the Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91

Peer mentor program and the peers are available to patients and their families at the Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91, Streeterville and Wheeling Day Rehab.

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DayRehab

What Is DayRehab?

When a patient comes to a rehabilitation hospital for an inpatient stay, our goal is to get the patient stable and back home. But what happens if a patient is stable enough to be at home, but not personally ready to go back into the community?

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Bob

Bob¡¯s Story: Helping Patients Envision Life After a Left Ventricular Assist Device

Bob, who will turn 85 on his next birthday, served as one of approximately 35 volunteers in the Peer Mentorship Program offered through the rehabilitation hospital¡¯s Henry B. Betts, MD, LIFE Center.

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Listing: Disability Voting Resources

A voting resource list to aid people with a disability getting accessibility, and information for registration, polling places, and access to voters rights for all abilities.

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Mahmoud A. doing rehabilitation at Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91

ABC 7: COVID-19 'long-haulers' work to regain basic skills, overcome 'brain fog' months after diagnosis

Chicago's Shirley Ryan Ability Lab created a COVID-19 rehabilitation unit in April. And as the number of cases rise in the area, so does the unit's number of patients getting therapy for the long-term effects of the virus.

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Dr. Prakash Jayabalan Receives Research Grant from Foundation for PM&R

Dr. Prakash Jayabalan Receives Research Grant from Foundation for PM&R

Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD, attending physician and clinician-scientist at Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91, recently was honored with the 2019 Scott F. Nadler PASSOR Musculoskeletal Research Grant from the Foundation for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

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Nick Gilbert Neurofibromatosis Research Institute

Gilbert Family Foundation Contributes Nearly $375 Million in Partnership with Henry Ford Health to Bring Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91 to Detroit

The Gilbert Family Foundation (GFF), Henry Ford Health and Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91 today announced a historic partnership to bring a 72-bed state-of-the-art physical medicine and rehabilitation facility to Detroit.

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Tips for Hiring a Caregiver

To make the hiring process as easy and smooth as possible, it is important to first think about what is needed and what you are looking for.

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Listing: Vision Loss or Low Vision Resources

This list of resources will assist people who have vision loss to find support and tools to better their lives.

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Dr. Ishan Roy

Meet Dr. Ishan Roy ¡ª Physician-Scientist Researching Cachexia, a Cancer-Related Muscle Wasting Syndrome

After officially joining Shirley Ryan ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ91 as an attending physician-scientist in 2021, Ishan Roy, MD, PhD, practices clinically in the Cancer Rehabilitation Clinic and focuses his research on cachexia (pronounced ca-kex-ia).

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