Allied Inpatient Rehab Receives High Honors for Patient Outcomes - September, 2008

Allied Services Rehab Hospital recently received a Top Performer award from the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDS). UDS is the most widely used system in the world for documenting the severity of patient disabilities and outcomes of medical rehabilitation. The Top Performer award recognizes facilities that rank in the top 10% of inpatient rehabilitation facilities nationwide on a number of important outcomes including functional improvement, length of stay, and how often patients return home after their rehab stay. For 2007, Allied Services Rehab Hospital ranked in the top 8% out of 804 inpatient rehab facilities nationwide.

Patients admitted to Allied Services Rehab Hospital were discharged at a more independent level and showed greater improvement in a shorter length of time than the national average. In addition, more of Allieds patients returned home and fewer were discharged to an acute care hospital in spite of the fact that Allied has an older patient population than the national average.

Times Leader Covers Allied's Use of Nintendo Wii for Recreational Therapy - January, 2008

Recently, Abington Journal reporter Chris Hughes interviewed Patty Frangella of Allied's Recreational Therapy Department on our use of the Nintendo Wii gaming system for therapy. The story ran in the Abington Journal last month. Today it is featured in the front page of the health section of the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre.

Allied Services is Featured - February, 2007

Allied Services is featured as one of the nation's most diverse nonprofit providers of post-acute care by Inside Healthcare formerly Health Executive Magazine.

The Vocational Division of Allied Services is providing large format and aperature card scanning to serve the needs of engineers, architects, manufacturers, and government agencies. We have the capability to scan aperature cards, engineering drawings, maps, blue prints, photographs and all types of large format graphics. For more information, please contact Nick Burruano, Contract Procurement Specialist at (570) 348-5377 or by email: nburru@allied-services.org. Click for details [pdf]
Vocational Scan Brochure [pdf]

Allied Services wins Web Award

Allied Services, www.allied-services.org, is proud to announce that our web site won the Standard of Excellence Award by the Web Marketing Association in the Non-Profit category.

Celebrated each September as part of National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, CIGNA Group Insurance will host events that focus on vocational rehabilitation. CIGNA is the national sponsor of this week, held from September 17-23, 2006, in cooperation with the National Rehabilitation Awareness Foundation (NRAF) of Scranton, PA. Click for details [pdf]

The FTM (Functional Tone Management) arm-training program is designed for people who have suffered a stroke or other neurological impairment and have residual hemi paresis of their arm. The program focuses on initiation and repetition of specific tasks to promote strength, function and recovery. One of the greatest challenges in rehabilitation of the stroke patient is achieving recovery of the upper extremity and regaining use of the arm functionally during daily tasks. The primary objective of this program is to enable the patient to use the involved hand. In some cases this approach may be used only a few days or weeks following the stroke. Allied Rehab’s FTM program utilizes traditional treatment approaches in conjunction with the new and innovative SaeboFlex.

Allied Services Rehabilitation Hospital To Offer Latest in Stroke and Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Technology - June, 2005

Allied Services Rehabilitation Hospital (ASRH) has announced a new relationship with Bioness, Inc. of Santa Clarita, California, which will make ASRH the first rehabilitation provider in Pennsylvania to make a new technology available for patients who have experienced a stroke or spinal-cord injury.