Magee Rehabilitation Hospital will begin construction
Wednesday on a $4 million project that will add a creative therapy center and
healing gardens to the rooftop of its Center City medical center, which it
already uses for patient care programs
The project will involve moving physical and occupational
therapy sessions out of the gym and into the outdoors — allowing patients to
leave the typical hospital environment, some for the first time in weeks, to
learn the skills officials at the Philadelphia hospital say “will help them
live a meaningful, active, and dignified life with their disability.”
In its largest-ever fundraising campaign, Magee collected
more than $2.1 million in donations for the project.
“The creative therapy center and healing gardens will
support the goals of providing optimal health care while ensuring Magee remains
a destination of choice and continually able to meet the physical medicine and
rehabilitation needs of our patients,” says Dr. Jack Carroll, president and CEO
of Magee Rehabilitation Hospital. “Taking care of the body, mind, and spirit
has always been my mantra.”
The therapy center and healing gardens on the sixth-floor
rooftop at Magee are being designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm
Charles Matsinger Associates, which took into account recommendations for
former patients and family members as well as therapists at the 96-bed
rehabilitation hospital.
Magee already uses rooftop space for a horticultural
therapy program and for "Segal Street," an area named for hospital
donor and trustee Jerry Segal, where patients can practice community skills —
such a transferring into a car from their wheelchair and traversing different
types of surfaces — before being discharged.
Source: Philadelphia
Business Journal
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