Winter 2022 Edition

This year we are celebrating our position as the best rehabilitation facility in the southern half of the United States and No. 2 in the nation in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

The pediatric inpatient team provides the framework for rehabilitation, but it’s the patients who do the work. “L.J. is a remarkable young man. He’s a hard worker with an exceptional spirit. He’s smart and dedicated, and he gave 100% every single day,” Dr. Hall says. “He’s our dream patient. He did an amazing job.”

TIRR Memorial Hermann and the Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Network are leading the charge in functional rehabilitation of individuals who no longer test positive after having had COVID-19. The hospital’s evidence-based interventions allow patients to go beyond the clinical setting, providing them with the opportunity to participate in important life roles in home, work, volunteer and community environments.

TIRR Memorial Hermann’s new eight-bed pediatric unit offers children age 6 months to 18 years the same quality of nationally ranked, customized care the hospital offers adults who have suffered a severe injury or illness and would benefit from inpatient rehabilitation.

TIRR Memorial Hermann’s roots go back to the 1950s, when the polio epidemic was at its height in the United States. Founded as one of the first polio treatment centers in the nation, TIRR was freed by the discovery of a polio vaccine to apply its rehabilitation expertise to catastrophically injured patients..

TIRR Memorial Hermann’s pediatric and adult hospitalist teams have allowed the rehabilitation hospital to respond to the medical issues of its high-acuity patient population quickly to keep them on track with their therapy.

TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital ranked No. 2 among the country’s top rehabilitation hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospital rankings for 2021-2022. TIRR Memorial Hermann was previously ranked No. 3 in the 2020-2021 rankings and has been included in the prestigious rankings since the report’s inception in 1989.

Rehabilitation was Huerta’s first experience of nursing practice. At the skilled nursing facility where she had worked as a PCA before joining TIRR Memorial Hermann, she moved up to a restorative tech position, following up on physical therapy and occupational therapy orders and hosting exercise classes in the afternoon.

A peer-reviewed article co-authored by Gerard E. Francisco, MD,described a highly promising treatment addressing post-stroke upper-limb weakness. Results of the clinical trial were published in The Lancet in April 2021.

Simra Javaid, DO, is an affiliated physician who joined the medical staff of TIRR Memorial Hermann and the faculty of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston in September 2021.

Christine Adair, MBA, MOT, OT, has been promoted to vice president of operations at TIRR Memorial Hermann, Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital-Katy and the Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Network; Three Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians Promoted to Associate Professors; Shuo-Hsiu (James) Chang, PT, PhD, MBA, P. Jacob Joseph, MD, and Radha Korupolu, MD, MS, have been promoted to associate professors in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.

Supporting the community is an impactful part of our history. In the 1960s, we were among the founders of the independent living movement, a worldwide movement of people with disabilities working for equal opportunities, self-determination and respect.