The UAB Rehabilitation Pavilion is a state-of-the-art inpatient rehabilitation hospital that includes Spain Rehabilitation Center inpatient rehabilitation services. The 11-story building includes 78 rehabilitation beds and the most advanced technology – all designed to promote functional activity at every turn.
The facility enhances our focus on neurorehabilitation for patients with stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other conditions. It has many features that allow patients to relax and to practice meaningful hobbies and activities important to their recovery, including a rooftop garden, terrain park, basketball court, simulated city street, and wheelchair skills area.
Each rehabilitation floor includes open therapy gyms, private therapy rooms, a day room, and a central hub designed to enhance team communication. Patient rooms are equipped with overhead lifts and patient repositioners to make it easier to move patients.
Our services include:
Physician services
Our team of physiatrists (doctors who specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation) work with patients to maximize what they can do and help them adapt to the things they cannot do. A physiatrist should be consulted when pain, weakness, or disability prevents a person from achieving his/her desired level of independence. Care plans include medication, injections, therapy, recommendations for adaptive devices, and partnering with other medical specialists as needed. Our physiatrists treat a wide variety of injuries, illnesses, disabilities, and diagnoses.
Rehabilitation psychology and neuropsychology
These are specialties within psychology. They are focused on developing programs to help patients with disabilities and chronic health conditions achieve daily lives that are more personally fulfilling, socially meaningful, and functional. These specialists are experts in understanding the relationship between the brain and behavior.
Physical therapy (PT)
Physical therapy helps improve overall health and restore functional skills and abilities such as bed mobility, moving from one setting to another, walking, range of motion, and balance. They also consider and help address pain. Our physical therapists rely on specially designed exercises and equipment to help patients regain or improve their physical abilities, with or without adaptive devices. Unique programs offered include aquatic therapy and wheelchair positioning and seating.
Occupational therapy (OT)
Occupational therapy helps improve patients’ overall function, with the goals of enhancing quality of life and helping them return to their homes and communities. This includes maximizing their ability to perform the activities of daily living and self-care tasks such as dressing and bathing. They also help with visual and perceptual training, cognitive retraining, simplifying work, and the effective use of adaptive and assistive devices.
Speech-language therapy
These specialists assess and treat speech-language disorders and swallowing issues, along with helping improve social and cognitive communication. Our speech therapists may consider alternative communication systems for patients with severe speech and/or comprehension impairment.
Music therapy
These specialists provide relaxing, entertaining, and therapeutic programs for anxiety, depression, pain, and emotional/spiritual support. Our music therapists also focus on patients with neurological conditions following a stroke or brain injury, using music to improve cognitive, sensory, language, and motor abilities.
Therapeutic recreation specialists
These specialists help patients return to their communities and participate in leisure activities that improve their quality of life. They also share knowledge with patients to address any physical, emotional, social, or cognitive barriers to leisure activities through adaptations, alternatives, and community resources.
Rehabilitation case management
These professionals help patients and their families set goals that will be included in the treatment plan. They also help coordinate care, handle paperwork and processes related to inpatient stays, help arrange for safer discharges, and serve as patient advocates.
PARKING INFO Self-parking for our patients and their families is available on floors 1-4 of the UAB Rehabilitation Pavilion, the entrance is located at 1700 7th Ave. S.
Patients and their families also may park in the Long-Term Parking lot at 4th Avenue South and 17th Street, which offers seven-day parking permits for $20. These permits may be purchased at several locations throughout our facility.
For more information, please see any Republic Parking representative or contact UAB Guest Services at 205-934-2273 or by dialing *55 from any hospital phone.
INPATIENT UAB Rehabilitation Pavilion 1700 7th Ave. S. Birmingham, AL 35233
