Burke Rehabilitation in White Plains has been awarded three separate grants to improve the quality of patient care and enhance the lives of people living with a spinal cord injury (SCI). The grants complement Burke”™s multidisciplinary approach to rehabilitative medicine. Each grant focuses on a specific patient need with the goal of improving outcomes.
Burke Rehabilitation was awarded $25,000 from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation”™s Direct Effect Quality of Life grant for the Burke Everything Else Education Program (BEEEP). This award will support BEEEP from July 2022 through June 2023.
Burke”™s Spinal Cord Injury Medicine Specialist Shelly Hsieh, M.D.; Director of Inpatient SCI Program Elizabeth Dominick PT, DPT; and Director of Therapeutic Recreation Eileen Andreassi, MA, CTRS, will work with community partners and organizations to educate participants.
Also, The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation renewed its commitment to Burke Rehabilitation with the award of a $50,000 grant to continue and expand the Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) Program in partnership with MedRhythms Inc. The Carvel Foundation awarded the initial grant in 2021. Through the renewed commitment and the support of additional NMT donors, including a grant from the state of New York, Burke is expanding the NMT services to five days each week.
The Will Rogers Institute demonstrated its commitment to Burke Rehabilitation Hospital with the renewal of its $20,000 annual grant to support pulmonary education and research. For the past 45 years, The Will Rogers Institute has partnered with Burke by awarding this grant. As a result of this year”™s donation, Burke will embark on a new clinical trial commencing in 2023 to impact patients”™ recovery and rehabilitation.
