Inkendaal Hospital - Organisation of services on the basis of ICF
The hospital is located on the very outskirts of a big city. The idea is to give patients a calm space to rehabilitate from major complex neurological disorders. The hospital does not focus on orthopedic rehabilitation, but everything related to brain injuries, so cognitive rehabilitation with adults but also with children and part of that is related to respiratory rehabilitation. The hospital has 176 beds for patients and 60 school places for children.
The programs are divided into rehabilitation trajectories where patients go through rehabilitation from six months to over to two years. Hereby, the focus at this point in time is hospitalized patients; ambulatory services are unfortunately limited.
Inkendaal works with the ICF model and also on different levels in the therapy given to the patients:
Mainly hospitalized
- Desorientation
- Limited responsivity (PVS, coma)
- Locomotoric injury
- Spinal cord injuries
- Amputation
- Neuro Muscular Rehabilitation center (neuropathy, ventilation, …)
- Resocialisation
- Neuo-geriatrics
- Stroke
- Parkinson
- Pediatric wing
- Deconditioning following intensive care or long-term hospitalization
Ambulatory
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Development disorder
- Cerebral Palsy
- Pediatric Partial Day Hospitalization for children and youth (school and rehabilitation)
Therapy schedules are organized along function (blue), activity (green) and participation(red).
The Flemish government approved funding for a new hospital building in which complex neurological rehabilitation can continue. The idea is, funding still permitting, to architecturally build a new hospital according to ICF principles.
Patients who need rehabilitation on the ICF level of “functions”, would reside in the section of the building where it is more “private” and there is room for one-on-one therapy. Gradually the focus would increase to the “activity level” and finally result in “participation” (group therapy) where they would move to the more “open part” of the building. With ICF presenting a holistic approach, the three areas will not be separated but intermixed. Inkendaal also aims to integrate ICF principles in the management system of the hospital.
For more information visit https://www.inkendaal.be/