We are committed to ensuring every child at Blythedale Children’s Hospital receives compassionate, high-quality care from our dedicated...
Complex Post-Surgical Rehabilitation
For children recovering from multiple traumatic injuries, extensive orthopedic surgery or complex surgery, Blythedale offers a highly specialized, integrated approach to care.
Why Blythedale…
Blythedale is a center of excellence in the management of surgical devices, drains, wound care, infection prevention, nutrition optimization and pain management.
- Inpatient
- Day Hospital
- Outpatient
Patients are admitted for acute medical and rehabilitative inpatient care following major trauma (such as head and spinal injuries, extensive soft tissue trauma/burns, vascular injuries, major muscle/ligament injuries, amputations or fractures), extensive scoliosis surgery, selective dorsal rhizotomy, complicated abdominal surgeries or other surgical conditions needing intensive post-acute recovery. Blythedale utilizes advanced technologies, including pressure mapping, ECUs (environmental control units), and partial and total body weight support systems (used to improve gait) to care for these children.
Patients are provided an individualized rehabilitation program by an interdisciplinary team including experts in pediatrics, physiatry, orthopedics, neurosurgery, neurology, psychology, rehabilitation and wound care nurse, Child Life specialists and other specialties, as well as the largest and most experienced pediatric therapy department in New York State. The goal is to help our patients recover and maximize their functional abilities and minimize disability through comprehensive medical care and rehabilitation.
Board Certified Pediatric Physiatrists on Staff
A team of five Board Certified Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialists serve at the core of our comprehensive rehabilitation program to promote healing.
Laney's Fight
Six-year-old Laney McGowan was diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome when she was just four-months old and had her first seizure. Dravet Syndrome is a rare form of treatment-resistant epilepsy which causes prolonged seizures. In December, Laney struggled with several upper respiratory infections and...
Complex Post-Surgical Rehabilitation Team
MPB Graduation 2023
Blythedale Children’s Hospital is no stranger to celebrating milestones. On Friday, June 23, four graduates received their diplomas from Mount Pleasant Blythedale Union Free School District. The Special Act school district which was created in 1971 to serve the patients of Blythedale Children's...
