John F. Ditunno, Jr, MD
Director

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Main Building, Suite 375 132 South 10th Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 215-955-6579 Fax 215-955-5152	Magee Rehabilitation Hospital 1513 Race Street 6 Franklin Plaza Philadelphia, PA 19102-1177 215-587-3000 1-800-96-MAGEE
SCI Follow-Up System 215-587-3394

Jefferson, in affiliation with the Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, is designated as one of the nation's 16 Model Spinal Cord Injury Centers by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, and is the only such center in the Delaware Valley.

The center, which has treated more than 3,000 persons with spinal cord injury, provides for the multidisciplinary coordination of emergency and acute medical/surgical care, rehabilitation beginning at the onset of acute care, vocational evaluation and training, and lifetime follow-up care for persons with spinal cord injury. With over 50 percent of persons with spinal cord injury admitted within three days of injury, the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center has demonstrated a mortality rate of 5 percent and has significantly reduced the severe secondary complications of traumatic spinal cord injury.

U.S.News & World Report this year again ranked Jefferson University Hospital as among the best in the nation in Rehabilitation Medicine
(Published 7-10-06) U.S.News & World Report has once again ranked Thomas Jefferson University Hospital as among the best in Philadelphia for orthopaedics and rehabilitation medicine.

Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley web site