Craig's Hospital is Rehabilitation Hospital in Englewood, Colorado specializing in spinal cord injuries (SCI) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) rehabilitation. Craig is an acute care and rehabilitation hospital with long-term, private, non-profit, long-term, free-standing care that provides a comprehensive system of inpatient and outpatient medical care, rehabilitation, neurosurgical rehabilitation care, and long-term follow-up long. service. Half of Craig's patients come from outside Colorado every year, and in the last four years Craig has treated patients from all 50 states and some foreign countries. At certain times, staff at Craig treat about 55 hospitalized patients with spinal cord injuries, 30 with traumatic brain injury, and 50-60 outpatients. Craig provides housing for out-of-state and outpatient families, including the first 30 days free of charge for families of new inpatients.
Craig's Hospital was appointed by the National Institute for Disability Rehabilitation and Research (NIDRR) as a Model System Center for spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injury. Craig is also the NIZR Statistics National TBI database for 15 other System Centers Models in the US.
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Histori
In 1907, Frank Craig started the Tent of Brotherly Love Column at Lakewood, Colorado to treat the poor with tuberculosis. Craig himself died of tuberculosis in 1914 and the tent colony was renamed Craig Colony in his memory in 1919.
As demand for treatment of tuberculosis is reduced in the United States, Craig Colony begins to focus on the diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis, polio, muscular dystrophy, and spinal cord injury (SCI). The facility was named Craig Rehabilitation Center in 1958, followed by another name change to Craig Rehabilitation Hospital in 1966 and moved to Englewood, Colorado in 1970 where a 80 bed rehabilitation hospital is built adjacent to the Swedish Medical Center to share additional services.
The 1970s brought a change to the name of the current facility, Craig Hospital , in 1975 and the establishment of a separate Traumatic Brain Injury team. Building research and construction was seen over the next two decades, including an increase in beds from 80 to 93.
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Research
Craig's Hospital Research Department currently has 23 staff with an annual budget of $ 4 million in federal, state, foundation, and industry-sponsored grants aimed at a variety of spinal cord injuries (SCI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) ) rehabilitation research. In addition, funds earned from the annual PUSH Dinner support more basic research.
The Research Department was founded in 1974 when Craig Hospital first received a Spinal Injury Model Model grant from the US Department of Education, National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). In 1998, Craig's brain injury program received the same title when it was first called the TBI Model System. Each Model System project consists of a three-pronged research effort: contributing to a national longitudinal database, conducting an interesting and important local research project for Craig, and collaborating with other Model Systems in research of mutual interest.
In 2006, Craig was named the TBI Model Systems National Data and Statistical Center, manages the TBI National Database and coordinates research among all TBI Model Systems.
Craig is currently receiving research funding not only from NIDRR but also from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Colorado TBI Trust Fund, the Congressional Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) that is part of the Department of Defense, other researchers through subcontracting, and pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies. As research has become more important for Craig's mission and reputation, the Research Department has enhanced cooperation with other institutions by leading and participating in multi-center research and becoming a national research coordination center.
Campus Revitalization and Expansion Project
On May 23, 2013, Craig Hospital underwent a $ 90 million expansion and renovation project that should "redefine inpatient and outpatient experience".
The project will add approximately 85,000 square feet of new space, renovate about 135,000 square feet of existing space, and complete closed and safer campuses with a cul-de-sac main entrance and accessible front garden area.
The hospital is funding $ 40 million of projects through cash reserves and bond sales and the Craig Hospital Foundation raises $ 50 million through a "Redefining Return On Investment (ROI)" capital campaign.
Famous patient
- Columbine high school massacre - Four students injured in a 1999 attack received treatment at Craig.
- George Congrave - University of Denver hockey player suffered a brain injury during a 1958 match. Roy Horn - Part of the Siegfried and Roy lion and tiger entertainment act was injured when attacked by a tiger during a stage performance in 2003.
- Jason Dorwart - Actor and former vice chairman of the theater group council PHAMALY
- Trish Downing - Competitive cyclists suffered spinal cord injuries in 2000.
- Regan Linton - Actors and members of the theater group PHAMALY.
- Tara Llanes - Professional mountain bike racer. Spinal cord injury suffered in 2007.
- Steven McDonald - New York City police officer shot and paralyzed while on duty in 1986.
- Stephen Murray - a lame BMX dust rider trying to flip behind a double on the Dew BMX Dirt Final Action Sports Tour in Baltimore, Maryland in 2007.
- Kevin Pearce - a professional snowboarder, suffered a traumatic brain injury during training in December 2009.
- Jason Regier - Captain Denver Harlequins, Quadriplegic rugby team (Rugby Wheelchair), Member, 2008 Quad Rugby Paralympic American Team, spinal cord injury suffered in a car accident in 1996.
- Willie Shoemaker - American jockey. Spinal cord injury suffered in 1991.
- Randy Snow - Paralympic medalist three times, the first Paralympian to be inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame. Spinal cord injury suffered at the age of 16 years in 1975.
- Chance Sumner - Member of the Harlequins Denver, Quadriplegic rugby team (Rugby Wheel Chair), Member of the Paralympic Team of America Quad Rugby 2008. Suffered a spinal cord injury in 2002 when he was thrown from a mechanical bull.
- Herb Tabak - Author and pilot
- Tommy Urbanski - Former professional wrestler, suffered a spinal cord injury after a shooting incident in Las Vegas with proPacman Jones footballer in February 2009.
- Mike Utley - American footballer, paralyzed while playing for the Detroit Lion during a game against the Los Angeles Rams in 1991.
- Doak Walker - American Football player and former Heisman Trophy winner, suffered a spinal injury while skiing in 1998.
- George Wallace - Former Governor of Alabama, shot and paralyzed in an assassination attempt while campaigning for the President of the United States in 1972.
References
External links
- the official website of Craig Hospital
- Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injury Craig Hospital
- Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation | Craig Hospital
- Craig Hospital Foundation
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