Why Choose the Roper Rehab Hospital

Reasons to Choose Roper Rehab Hospital

• Roper Rehabilitation Hospital (RRH) is a hospital within a hospital. Other facilities located outside of a hospital must transport patients in emergencies. RRH patients have immediate access to critical care doctors and intensive care units.
• We get patients home! 82 percent of our patients were discharged home compared to 80 percent nationally.
• The patient’s doctor is able to visit their patient in the hospital.
• Roper Rehabilitation Hospital has a full kitchen and a “Real Life Room” with a car to practice functional skills in a therapeutic setting.
• The Rapid Response and Stroke teams are readily available in an emergency.
• Dialysis is available at Roper and is scheduled to reduce interference with therapy.
• Recreational therapy is available for patients to assist with community re-entry.
• Patient satisfaction surveys conducted by PRC rate Roper Rehab Hospital at the top 10 percent of hospitals nationally for providing excellent care. For 2008 and 2009 RRH was awarded the Top Performer for overall quality of care.
• Dr. James Warmoth, medical director for the unit has more than thirty years of inpatient rehabilitation experience and is a CARF surveyor.
• Roper Rehabilitation Hospital is the only CARF accredited inpatient rehab hospital in the Lowcountry. RRH is accredited as both a general rehab unit and a stroke specialty unit.