On With Life at Ankeny

Ankeny Brochure (PDF)

On With Life at Ankeny Outcomes

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Specialty Services For Persons Served Who Have Experienced A Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Comprehensive Inpatient Services for Persons Served Who Have Experienced A Stroke or Other Acquired Brain Injury, i.e.: Anoxia, Aneurysm or Infection

Specialty Services for Persons Admitted Into On With Life in a Coma or Minimally Responsive Condition

On With Life at Ankeny Specialty Services for the Pediatric Person Served

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On With Life, Inc. CARF Accreditation Report

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Brain Care Specialists

On With Life at Ankeny is one of the few facilities in the world that is designed and optimized specifically for the needs of individuals with brain injury and their families. Featuring spacious rooms and hallways, On With Life at Ankeny is home to our intensive post-acute brain injury rehabilitation program, which means that we continue brain injury rehabilitation when hospital stays are complete.

Accreditations

On With Life at Ankeny is proud to be among the select CARF accredited "Comprehensive, Integrated, Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs - Brain Injury" in the country. We've served over 1,100 individuals so far, and we're proud to continue this tradition of excellence as we grow in the future.

On With Life at Ankeny features:

• Customized rehabilitation programs for brain injury survivors
• 26 private rooms designed for accessibility and comfort
• Extremely high staff-to-person served ratio
• On-site chapel supplemented by spiritual support services
• A continuation of inpatient and outpatient programs

On With Life has established a nationwide reputation for our remarkable brain injury rehabilitation programs and we pride ourselves on the individual attention we put into our services. Each of our specialists plays an important role in taking care of persons served. Through our On With Life at Ankeny program, we're able to provide the following services:

• Around-the-clock Skilled Rehabilitation Nursing
• Physical Therapy
• Occupational Therapy
• Speech Language Pathology
• Music Therapy
• Therapeutic Recreation
• Medical Nutrition Therapy
• Case Management
• Social Work Counseling
• Psychiatric Medical Management
• Phsyiatric Rehabilitation Medical Management
• Internal Medicine Medical Management
• Neuropsychology
• Three to five hours of therapy per day
• Highest nursing staff-to-person served ratio

Admission Criteria

For nearly twenty years, On With Life at Ankeny has provided specialized inpatient rehabilitation services to individuals aged 10 and older. In order to receive our services at On With Life at Ankeny, our person served must:

• have acquired a brain injury or other neurological disorder;
• have the potential to participate in and benefit from comprehensive rehabilitation services;
• be medically stable and no longer require acute hospitalization;
• breathe independently, without medical assistance;
• not demonstrate a severe behavioral, psychiatric or personality disorder that poses a threat to self or others, or that requires intensive or long-term psychiatric intervention;
• have means of payment for services;
• if either a minor or an adult not capable of informed decision making, have either a legally appointed decision maker or a family representative responsible for decisions and/or informed choices.

Discharge Criteria

The person served:

• has improved sufficiently so he or she no longer needs the services provided within the inpatient rehabilitation program;
• is not medically stable and can no longer benefit from the intense inpatient rehabilitation program;
• responsible party determines that the person served no longer wants to participate in the comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation program;
• no longer has a viable funding source for inpatient rehabilitation services;
• has the means to pay but has failed, after reasonable and appropriate notice, to pay for services.

Call us today at (800) 728-0645 and let us know how we can help you.