Patient Programs
- The KnowBarriers Patient Achievement Program - KnowBarriers offers life experience and clinical expertise, to assist persons with disabilities, in developing the confidence and skills they need to move forward in their lives and achieve their life goals. Programs include Life Coaching, Peer Mentoring, Information and Referral, Violence Prevention Outreach and Substance Abuse Recovery. KnowBarriers has made a tremendous impact on the lives of patients at Rancho Los Amigos. To learn more about their Success Stories and the KnowBarriers programs, visit their web site at www.KnowBarriers.org.
- 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.
