Patient Programs
- The KnowBarriers Patient Assistance Program offers personal self-image life coaching to Rancho's adult and young adult Spinal Cord Injury patients. The program helps patients create a vision of personal success by focusing patients on what matters most to them despite their injury or illness, measuring where they are in relation to their goals, and assisting patients in taking the first steps toward bridging the gap to success. Funding for KnowBarriers has been provided by the Rose Hills Foundation, the Christopher Reeve Foundation, the Optimist Club of Downey, The Amigos Fund, Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, and the Rancho Los Amigos Foundation.
- The first-ever Pediatric Arts Program was developed to give youngsters that have suffered recent injury or illness instruction in the musical arts, fine arts and graphic arts from experienced Rancho graduate artists. The Occupational Therapy/Recreation Therapy program was funded by a grant from Supervisor Don Knabe and additional funds by the Rancho Los Amigos Foundation.
- In 2006, Rancho received grants from the California Health Care Safety Net Institute to serve as a "Reviewer Hospital" and "Implementer Hospital" for language access policies and procedures and best practices, in an effort to position California public hospitals as national leaders in the provision of culturally appropriate services for Limited English proficient patients.
- The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation awarded a grant to the Center for Applied Rehabilitation Technology (CART) and the Rancho Los Amigos Foundation to expand the Computer Therapy Laboratory to inpatients and outpatients (October 2005).
- In 2005, Rancho's Language and Culture Resource Center received a grant from "Leading Organizational Change", a program funded by the California Endowment and a partnership between the California Association of Public Hospitals and University of California, San Francisco. The funding is used for implementing the Video Medical Interpreter (VMI) Program, that allows patients and health care providers to remotely view their trained interpreter as necessary. Rancho is the first rehabilitation hospital in Southern California and the world to implement VMI technology.
- Daily Living Context and Pressure Sores in Consumers with Spinal Cord Injury is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education.
- Orthopedic Assistive Devices for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury: Active Mobile Arm Support is funded by the Los Amigos Research and Engineering Institute (LAREI) and the Department of Occupational Therapy at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center.
- The Weingart Foundation awarded a grant to the Center for Applied Rehabilitation Technology (CART) to purchase new equipment for CART's Assistive Technology Loan Program and to expand services to children with disabilities.
