Burn Rehabilitation
We offer Ontario's only dedicated burn rehabilitation program. The hospital provides specialized interprofessional services that treat the patient holistically — mind, body and spirit, and to address the physical, psychosocial and vocational needs of individuals with severe burn injuries.
Referrals & Admissions
Inpatient Admission Criteria
- Medically stable with no significant fluctuations in medical status within 72 hours
- Motivated to participate in rehab, has active rehab goals
- Able to participate in active rehab therapy 5 to 7 days a week
- Patient's cognitive abilities and state of mental health support participation in active rehab
- Able to sit unsupported for a minimum of 30 minutes
Special needs accommodated include the following:
- Intermittent oxygen therapy/home oxygen
- Tracheotomy (must by corked)
- Intermittent tube feeds (PEG tube only)
Third Party Insurer
Transfer Checklist and Key Notes
To help ensure accurate assessment, please provide the following information about the patient, prior to, or upon admission:
Patient Profile
- Allergies
- Anti-coagulation profile (recent blood work; Coumadin/Fragmin doses: up to 4 days)
- Diet information with orders including formula, rate, # hours of feed, water flushes
- Medication Administration Record (MAR)
- Prescribed Activity levels for upper and/or lower (weight bearing; restrictions), (order to be signed by physician)
- Special needs (egs. infusion therapy, oxygen, Ostomy)
- Wound management orders
- Follow up specialist appointments
Work-Up
- Behavioral assessment/management (if applicable)
- Consult reports
- Discharge summary
- ECG/Echocardiogram (if applicable)
- Infection control screen results (MRSA, VRE, and others)
- Lab results (most recent copy)
- Names and contact information for all physicians, surgeons specialists
- Other tests results (including video fluoroscopy)
- Physician acute care admission report
- Surgical procedures and dates of surgery
- X-ray, CT/MRI (if applicable)
- Social Work summary
- For seamless continuum of care, please ensure patients have had the following arranged before, or upon transfer:
- Clinical follow-up appointments
- Diagnostic (acute) appointments
- Transportation for off-site tests/treatments
- St. John’s Rehab is a rehabilitation facility and does not have the following services:
- emergency services
- mechanical ventilation, total parenteral nutrition, and nasogastric feeding
- dialysis service
- isolation or secured units
Outpatient Referral Forms
Download our Outpatient Referral Form on our referral information page.
Please include all relevant medical/therapy reports with your application
Outpatient Admission Criteria
- Has active rehab goals and is able to participate and tolerate increasing amount of rehab therapy.
- Has adequate cognitive communication abilities for rehab.
- Has a reliable means of transportation.
Program Details
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As Canada's leader in burn rehabilitation, St. John's Rehab is a regional and national centre of excellence on the forefront of delivering inpatient and outpatient treatment, teaching and research.
Hospitals across the province refer patients to the inpatient program and physicians in the community can refer patients directly to the hospital's outpatient program. Auto insurance clients and injured workers covered by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board are referred to the Back on Track Program. Patients benefit from a seamless continuum of services that ensures they can continue to working toward their rehabilitation goals in a facility that provides the same high standards of care and evidence-based outcomes.
The inpatient and outpatient teams represent a full range of rehabilitation professionals and medical specialists who work with patients and their families to expedite their recovery and return to the workforce or the community. Support groups at the hospital respond to patients' psychological and social needs to encourage developing coping and self-management strategies.
Bi-weekly burn clinics at St. John's Rehab include specialists from the Ross Tilley Burn Centre and the Hamilton Health Sciences Centre.
Patients can also access fee-for-service care such as massage therapy, acupuncture, chiropractic and chiropody services to complement their rehabilitation.
Program backgrounder
St. John's Rehab at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is dedicated to specialized rehabilitation. As the site of Canada's first and Ontario's only dedicated burn rehabilitation program, we are the national leader in delivering inpatient and outpatient treatment.
- As a provincial provider, patients are referred to our program from hospitals and physicians across Ontario.
- The rehabilitation team develops realistic goals and timelines with each patient and keeps in close contact with the patient and his or her family. This helps achieve maximum recovery, independence and quality of life.
- Our highly skilled and committed multidisciplinary rehab team includes physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, speech-language pathologists, pharmacists, physicians, dietitians, social workers, psychologists and spiritual care.
- Expertise in intensive wound management.
- Consultations with an external network of acute care burn specialists are available as required. For example, bi-weekly burn clinics are held at the hospital and involve specialists from the Ross Tilley Burn Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
- Once discharged, patients can benefit from a seamless continuum of care by being referred to our outpatient rehabilitation program.
- The specialized Back on Track Program serves clients who sustain burns in motor vehicle and work-related accidents. We are a specialty provider of services for clients of the Workplace Safety Insurance Board (WSIB).
- Comprehensive interdisciplinary care with an established reputation and specialization in return to work programming and management of psychological issues.
- Electrical injury specialists. Canada's only dedicated electrical injury rehab program - customized comprehensive assessment and care to people who have been living with the adverse, often invisible effects of electrical injuries.
- Partnered with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, currently publishing research on electrical injuries.
Location and contact
Burn Rehabilition Program
St. John's Rehab
285 Cummer Avenue
Toronto, ON M2M 2G1
Phone: 416-226-6780
Fax: 416-226-5406
Refer a patient
Referral question? Contact:
Central Booking (Inpatient Programs)
Phone:
416-226-6780 ext. 57300
