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Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital is one of a handful of hospitals in the United States that provide rehabilitation and subacute medical treatment for children, regardless of the family's ability to pay. Ranken Jordan is a private, not-for-profit, specialty pediatric rehabilitation hospital located in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Ranken Jordan has built a unique, free-standing 34-bed state-of-the-art facility, which was financed on donations and private investment. For children with complex medical conditions such as brain injuries or complications due to premature birth, Ranken Jordan helps bridge the gap between traditional hospital treatment and the comforts of home. Ranken Jordan provides interdisciplinary, specialized care, rehabilitation, and treatment for children 2-weeks to 21 years of age. Ranken Jordan is equipped with nursing care, respite care, education facilitation services, physical, occupational, speech, respiratory, and recreation therapies, outpatient therapy evaluations and treatment services, comprehensive, interdisciplinary child development programming and social services. With an impressive staff of medical professionals and community volunteers, each child at Ranken Jordan is given individualized attention, so that a stay in the hospital offers all the growth and rewards of being raised at home. The facility treats children with injuries and illnesses including, but not limited to: *Brain injuries *Burns *Complications from prematurity *Complications from obesity *Neuromuscular diseases *Orthopedic injuries *Ventilator dependency *Paralysis The facility includes: 34 inpatient pediatric beds, therapy gym and aqua therapy pool, developmental testing and child-centered activity areas, computer center, art therapy room, music and movement room, life skills kitchen, and a fully accessible playground both indoor and outdoor. Ranken Jordan is currently the only pediatric specialty hospital in Missouri, and one of only five such facilities in the nation. Children are admitted by referrals from other pediatric health care facilities and from children's hospitals. ==The Need for Ranken Jordan== Medical advances are saving more sick and injured children than ever before. However, these children often need comprehensive, ongoing care. Ranken Jordan specializes in this growing need for subacute, traditional care. In the past five years, Ranken Jordan has created roughly 200 permanent, high-skill jobs without cutting a single position, wage or benefit. Ranken Jordan's patients make up one half of one percent of the healthcare population, but the cost of their care is an estimated 30% of total healthcare population costs. Many of Ranken Jordan's cases are not covered under insurance. While reimbursement relieves some of the financial burden, Ranken Jordan makes decisions to care for children, regardless of reimbursement or the family's ability to pay. No child is turned away. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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