Admission Criteria
Below are the criteria for admission for treatment at the Acute Care Rehabilitation Unit at The George Washington University Hospital.

• You must have a physical impairment or medical complication that limits your mobility, self-care, activities of daily living, cognitive function, communication and perceptual motor functions.
• You must be able to make functional progress within a reasonable amount of time
• You must require the intervention of two therapeutic disciplines and be able to tolerate at least three hours of therapy per day, a minimum of five days per week
• Your functional impairment must be of recent onset or progression / exacerbation
• You must be medically stable and require 24-hour rehabilitation nursing care
• If you have insurance other than Medicare Part A, you may have to meet additional criteria

• Have no discharge plan
• Wander and may be at risk for elopement from the facility
• Are ventilator dependent
• Have a spinal cord injury above C6
• Have a brain injury with Rancho Level 4 or below
• Have a heparin drip
• Are under the age of 18

Discharge Criteria

• You have achieved your goals and no longer need a hospital level of rehabilitation
• You have plateaued and have shown no significant progress over the course of one week
• You have become medically unstable and require a transfer to a higher level of care
• You refuse to cooperate with the plan of care or behave in a manner that jeopardizes your safety or the safety of other patients and staff
• You refuse to participate in the program for three days