Individualized Services to Help Your Child Reach Their Rehabilitation Goals

As the largest and most comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation program in the region, we offer highly personalized, collaborative care. We offer a wide range of services, procedures and monitoring. Our goal is to help your child return to their home, school and community as quickly and safely as possible.

These include:

  • Re-entry training for your child, family and caregivers
  • Home, school and community assessments and adaptations
  • Coordination with school, including 504 and IEP plans, and lists of accommodations

  • Neurocognitive testing, to assess brain function
  • Sensory integration and modulation, to help your child use and react to sights, sounds, smells, touch and taste
  • Behavior modification programs

  • Ostomy care, to manage an opening in the abdomen that helps your child’s body remove waste
  • Intermittent catheterization and bowel programs, to help your child control their bowel and bladder functions

  • Maintenance of IV fluids
  • Pharmaceutical therapies, the use of medicine to prevent, manage and treat infections and disease
  • Pain management, including epidurals (injection pain medication near the spinal cord) and patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), a method that allows patients to self-administer medication by pressing a button
  • Blood product administration

  • Assisting you and your child with bracing and orthotics, including application and removal
  • Providing functional splinting and bracing
  • Assessing the need for and providing mobility assistive devices and durable medical equipment
  • Providing positioning and handling instructions for staff, families and caregivers
  • Working with staff trained in:
    • Bed mobility (safely rolling over and transitioning between lying down and sitting up)
    • Functional mobility, including ambulation (walking with or without the help of devices) and wheelchair mobility (safely navigating spaces in a wheelchair)
    • Transfers (safely moving from one surface to another)

  • Monitoring apnea (a condition that affects how your child breathes while they sleep) and bradycardia (a slow heart rate)
  • Blood gas monitoring, to evaluate how well your child’s lungs are functioning and their blood’s pH balance
  • Pulse oximetry testing, to measure your child’s heart rate and level of oxygen in their blood
  • Conducting lumbar punctures (spinal tap), to diagnose conditions that may affect your child’s brain, nerves and spinal cord
  • Point-of-care blood-glucose monitoring, to measure your child’s blood sugar immediately
  • Skin testing, to check your child for allergies, infectious diseases and more
  • Providing central venous catheter (CVC) and peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line care, including routine flushing and changing dressings to prevent infections and blockages

  • Total parenteral nutrition (TPN), nutrition delivered to your child through an IV
  • Enteral nutrition (tube feeding), nutrition delivered directly to your child’s digestive tract through a feeding tube

  • Helping your child with daily activities, including bathing, dressing and grooming
  • Encouraging your child to participate in developmental play activities
  • Developing and training caregivers in home programs

  • Tone management, to reduce muscle tightness and stiffness and help with mobility 
  • Pain management, to help your child feel more comfortable
  • Edema management, to help reduce swelling
  • Wound care, including proper garment fittings and post-burn management

  • Providing airway care and management 
  • Using CPAP and BiPAP machines
  • Managing ventilators, including weaning and tracheostomy decannulation (safely removing a tracheostomy tube)
  • Managing chest tubes
  • Providing oxygen therapy
  • Using inhaled bronchodilators, devices that deliver medicine to help relieve asthma and other lung condition symptoms

  • Hearing evaluation
  • Assessing the need for and providing assistive communication devices
  • Providing feeding and swallowing intervention
  • Videofluoroscopic swallow study
  • Cognitive linguistic therapy

Facilities and Amenities Designed for the Whole Family

At Phoenix Children’s, we recognize that families are the primary caregivers and decision-makers for their children. We also understand the profound impact your child’s condition can have on the entire family. Our facilities are designed with family-centered amenities to support comfort and enable full participation in your child’s care. We offer 12 private, ADA-compliant inpatient rooms equipped with roll-in showers for added convenience. Other family-friendly features include:

Opportunities for Your Child to Navigate Life Outside the Hospital

Children who meet specific clinical guidelines may be eligible to participate in community re-entry outings. These outings are designed to help your child apply and practice their skills as they learn to navigate their community. Additionally, we offer related training for caregivers to support these transitions.  
Examples of community re-entry locations include:

  • Museums
  • Restaurants
  • Retail stores
  • Zoo/Aquarium

You Can Count On Our Full Support When Transitioning Home

Many families are apprehensive about readjusting to home and school. Your child’s care team will ensure that you are fully supported and have the resources you need for a smooth transition home.

We will work with your family to identify necessary modifications and appropriate equipment. You may have an in-person or virtual home evaluation to ensure the equipment will work in your space. We will give you a personalized care plan tailored to your child’s evolving needs. Sometimes, a member of our staff will accompany you and your child to your house prior to discharge, to help with the journey and setup. We will help guide your child's ongoing care, including follow-up appointments, outpatient therapies and reintegration into school and daily activities.

Discharge Criteria

Before going home, we will work with your child to ensure they meet certain medical, functional, psychosocial and logistical criteria. Planning for discharge begins on day one. It is a continuous and collaborative process that involves the family, caregivers and care team.