R E H A B I L I T A T I O N - Ontario Hospital Association

This section highlights selected characteristics of local healthintegration networks (LHINs), providing context for interpretationof the rehabilitation indicator results.Table 1 shows the proportion of inpatient rehabilitation clientsby LHIN and lists the number of hospitals that provide inpatientrehabilitation services by facility type in each LHIN. Facilitiesparticipating in the National Rehabilitation Reporting System (NRS)are classified as either General or Specialty. This classification isspecific to the NRS and is intended to facilitate comparative reporting;it is not necessarily consistent with facility classification methodsused for ministry reporting in Ontario (that is, the Ministry of Healthand Long-term Care Master Number List).As defined for the NRS, a general rehabilitation facility is a rehabilitationunit or collection of beds designated for rehabilitation purposes thatis part of a general hospital offering multiple levels or types of care.A specialty rehabilitation facility is one that provides more extensiveand specialized inpatient rehabilitation services and is commonlya free-standing facility or a specialized unit within a hospital. Therehabilitation team at the facility decides which profile most closelyrepresents its rehabilitation program(s) and categorizes itself asgeneral or specialty when beginning submissions to the NRS.Note that it is possible for a hospital to have more than one facility, andit is also possible for a hospital to have both a specialty rehabilitationfacility and a general facility with rehabilitation beds. This is illustratedin the above table under the column “Hospitals With Both Types.”Table 1.Inpatient Rehabilitation in OntarioLHINPercent ofInpatientRehabilitationClientsin OntarioSpecialtyHospitalsGeneralHospitalsHospitalsWith BothFacilityTypes1 Erie St. Clair 6.2 1 4 0 52 South West 4.8 1 4 0 53 Waterloo Wellington 4.6 0 4 0 44 Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant 8.9 0 4 1 55 Central West 0.5 0 1 0 16 Mississauga Halton 9.0 0 3 0 37 Toronto Central 21.6 3 5 0 88 Central 18.1 1 5 0 69 Central East 9.0 0 6 0 610 South East 1.9 0 1 1 211 Champlain 9.9 1 4 1 612 North Simcoe Muskoka 1.4 0 2 0 213 North East 2.0 1 3 0 414 North West 2.3 0 0 1 1Ontario 100 8 46 4 58TotalPAGE 2