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Spinal Cord Injury / Disorder Service
 The
Hines Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder (SCI/D) Service
provides state of the art specialty care to veterans
from an eight state area. Our renowned program
provides rehabilitation services for paraplegic,
quadriplegic, as well as care of
ventilator-dependent spinal cord disorders. We also
offer a range of outpatient services, including
psychology and a Hospital Based Home Care program
including telemedicine consultations and follow up.
Hines also serves as a Hub Site to advise and assist other VA’s
in our region with provision of SCI care. Hines SCI/D “outreach”
efforts to communicate with other VA facilities regarding spinal
cord diseases and disorders. The SCI Center at Hines also cares for
veterans with non-traumatic spinal problems, such as ALS, MS and
spinal infections resulting in paraplegia or tetraplegia to our
clinics for optimal care.
Hines VA Hospital has embraced computer technology and medical
applications of information transfer with marked success. Hines SCI
has repeatedly been selected as the pilot or initiation site for new
programs and we are committed to offering our patients the most
technologically advanced care available today.
In 2005 we opened a brand new SCI facility that is over 58,000
square feet and has the most modern equipment, indoor/outdoor
rehabilitation therapy areas and a beautiful courtyard. The mission
of the Hines Spinal Cord Injury Center is to support, promote and
maintain the health, independence, quality of life and productivity
of individuals of SCI/D veterans throughout their life. Our Spinal
Cord Unit staff are proud to care for veterans from World War II
through the current Operation Iraqi Freedom. We have a long and
proud history of caring for these veterans and are proud to serve
them in our new accommodations.
There have been many achievements as wide ranging as being part
of the development of spinal cord medicine as we know it today, and
shaping the VA’s use of information technologies. These
accomplishments are evident in the care rendered in the new Hines
Spinal Cord Impairment facility, part of the VA’s ongoing efforts to
provide optimal care.
Unique to the Hines SCI Service was the creation of a
free-standing long term care facility, the Robert C. Fruin
Residential Care Facility, in 1991. Today, other such facilities
exist in the VA system, but they are few and far between. Hines VA
remains concerned with the issues pertaining to the quality of care
for spinal cord impaired persons, and to that end, has requested
repeatedly the provision of contemporary equipment, physician
training and allied technologies for our population.
If you have any questions about the Hines Spinal Cord Injury
Program, our staff would be happy to talk to you. Call 708-202-2241.
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