About MossRehab

Accreditations and Recognition for MossRehab

MossRehab is consistently recognized for clinical excellence and quality outcomes. Here is a sampling of the many acknowledgements and honors we have earned:

U.S.News & World Report “America’s Best” rehabilitation hospital
For 18 years MossRehab has been recognized by U.S.News & World Report, as one of “America’s Best” rehabilitation hospitals. In 2011 MossRehab was the number one rehabilitation facility in Philadelphia and number 9 in the nation, on a list of hospitals in the country named as the best in providing a full array of rehabilitative care.

Philadelphia magazine “Top Docs”
In 2011, three MossRehab doctors were recognized by their peers for being among the region’s “Top Doctors” as published in Philadelphia magazine.

15 CARF Accreditations
15 MossRehab programs received accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), for a period of three years – more CARF-accredited programs than any other facility listed in the U.S.News & World Report rankings for “America’s Best” rehabilitation hospitals.  

Accreditation for MossRehab’s Sheerr Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory
MossRehab’s Sheerr Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory received three-year accreditation from the Commission for Motion Laboratory Accreditation.  MossRehab is only the second adult rehabilitation facility in the nation to receive this credential.

Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality
MossRehab was one of only six hospitals in the nation to receive a 2010 American Nurses Association National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality® based on patient outcomes.

Members of the MossRehab team have also received numerous awards and honors. In 2010 these include:

Appointment as Vice President of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Alberto Esquenazi, MD, was elected Vice President of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R). As a result of his election to this post, Dr. Esquenazi will assume the duties of President-Elect in 2012 and AAPM&R President in 2013.

Distinguished Academician Award
John Whyte, MD, PhD, Director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute, received the  2010 Distinguished Academician award from the Association of Academic Physiatrists, an organization of faculty, researchers and others dedicated to the advancement of academic physiatry. Dr. Whyte was selected by his peers to receive the award for his excellence as a teacher, researcher and administrator.

Rehabilitation Leadership Award
Ruth Lefton, Chief Operating Officer, MossRehab and Einstein at Elkins Park, received the 2010 Rehabilitation Leadership Award from the Pennsylvania Association of Rehabilitation Facilities (PARF).

Staff Nurse Role Award
Karyn Kling, RN, was selected by the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses’ (ARN) Awards Committee as the recipient of the 2010 Staff Nurse Role Award. The award recognizes a  staff nurse who has contributed to the advancement of rehabilitation nursing care. Ms. Kling is a staff nurse on MossRehab’s brain injury unit.

MossRehab Mission and Vision

MossRehab is committed to offering the highest level of patient service and is dedicated to advancing the field of medical rehabilitation through research, advocacy and education.

As a member of Einstein Healthcare Network we share its mission and vision. 

Our Mission

With humanity, humility and honor, to heal by providing exceptionally intelligent and responsive healthcare and education for as many as we can reach

By ‘with humanity’ we mean...
with humanness and benevolence

By ‘humility’ we mean...
with a modest view of our own importance

By ‘honor’ we mean...
with due esteem and reverence

By ‘heal’ we mean...
to restore physical and emotional integrity, bring into balance or provide comfort, whether for body, mind, spirit or community

By ‘exceptionally intelligent’ we mean...
by relentlessly reaching for the most comprehensive and incisive knowledge

By ‘responsive’ we mean...
by anticipating needs and responding in a timely manner

By ‘as many as we can reach’ we mean...
those in the geographic and demographic communities that we serve

Our Vision

Einstein Brilliance and Compassion
In All We Touch

By ‘Brilliance’ we mean...
our aspiration to shine in all that we do; to have exceptional intellectual clarity and grace; to uniquely comprehend, understand and benefit from experience.

By ‘Compassion’ we mean...
to treat with dignity and respect; to have a deep and human understanding of the feelings of others and a motivation to act to alleviate or reduce suffering.

By ‘In All We Touch’ we mean...
at every level of our being; the internal working relationships of the organization and the individuals, populations or communities with whom we live and interact.

History of MossRehab

We’ve been a leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation for more than 100 years.

Named after our original benefactor, Lucien Moss, MossRehab’s roots stretch back to 1900, when our institution began as The Lucien Moss Home for Incurables of the Hebrew Faith. The Moss Home helped chronically ill people learn how to live with their ailment in a dignified and humane manner. This was unusual for the time, when it was common for hospitals to turn away people who had no hope of being successfully treated by current medical practice.

Endowing an institution for people with chronic illnesses put Lucien Moss ahead of the medical mainstream and today he is recognized as a visionary.

Rehabilitation roots begin to grow

Twenty years after its inception the Lucien Moss Home expanded in scope to include care for people with cancer and paralysis. A few decades later, MossRehab as we know it today, began to take shape. In 1959 ground was broken at 1200 West Tabor Road for a new facility – Moss Rehabilitation Hospital (later to become MossRehab). Back then, the practice of physical rehabilitative medicine was just emerging, and once again, our institution took a leading role in a developing field.

An active research agenda gets underway

In the 1960s MossRehab became a stroke evaluation center and it initiated patient care programs for arthritis, peripheral vascular disease, chronic pulmonary disease and neurological disorders. It also embarked on an active research agenda. In 1966, MossRehab received its first outside research grant of $500 to test drugs for the National Drug Company of Philadelphia. This was just the beginning of our efforts to become one of the nation’s most respected rehabilitation research institutes.

Today MossRehab is one of the country’s most clinically advanced rehabilitation hospitals. We remain on the vanguard of research for rehabilitative medicine while also adhering to our original mission of tending to the human dimension of illness as we improve the quality of life for our patients.

More MossRehab milestones

1970s

• Becomes a major advocate for people with disabilities
• Actively ventures into community outreach
• Sponsors its first art exhibition of works by artists with physical disabilities
• Creates a driving school to teach individuals with disabilities how to become safe and independent drivers
• Starts a therapeutic music program with the Settlement Music School
• Introduces a camp program for MossRehab outpatients and former patients
• Establishes a Social Action Committee that lobbies for city ordinances to make local structures accessible to people with disabilities
• In Collaboration with Drexel and Temple Universities establishes one of the selected federally funded Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers
• Establishes one of the selected federally funded Rehabilitation Research Education Centers
• Arranges to supplement services for The Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital and Frankford Hospital
• Begins collaboration with Temple University Hospital to train physicians in the field of physical medicine and rehabilitaion and have subsequently trained approximately 5% of the physiatrists in the U.S.

1980s

• Opens its first freestanding comprehensive outpatient center in Philadelphia
• Opens its first freestanding comprehensive outpatient center in Montgomery County
• Operates a full-fledged Rehabilitation Engineering Service to design solutions for problems patients face at home, on the job or when traveling
• Creates the Joint Replacement Center, uniting the expertise of MossRehab’s rehabilitation and Albert Einstein Medical Center’s orthopedic surgeons to treat patients suffering from chronic joint pain and immobility
• Establishes the Drucker Brain Injury Center, the region’s first center dedicated to helping people with traumatic brain injuries
• With support from a Pennsylvania state grant, begins a comprehensive outpatient program for adolescents and adults with spinal bifida

1990s

• MossRehab becomes part of Einstein Healthcare Network
• Launches Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute to consolidate the many research activities at MossRehab and to foster new initiatives in rehabilitation research aimed at improving human function and adaptation to disability
• Opens MossRehab Stoke Center, providing programs that enable stroke victims to increase their level of functioning and ability to return to their home and employment
• Becomes the only rehabilitation center in the region with onsite prosthetic and orthotic fabrication facilities
• Establishes the Sheerr Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory as a clinical and research facility, offering some of the country’s most advanced diagnostic labs to help identify causes of ambulation problems in patients with neuromuscular and orthopedic injuries and patients with prostheses
• Launches the Motor Control Analysis Lab, one of the few labs in the country to focus on studying the complex science of muscle dysfunction that occurs due to brain injury
• Starts training physical medicine and rehabilitation residents at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

2000s

• Main facility moves to Elkins Park, co-located in same facility as Einstein at Elkins Park hospital
• Establishes partnerships with Sacred Heart Hospital, Aria Health Frankford campus and Aria Health Bucks County campus
• Offers full-service care to treat athletic-related injuries, through Moss Sports Rehab
• Accredited by CARF as a Stroke Specialty Program—one of the first in the nation to receive this endorsement
• Exclusive U.S. clinical trial site for ReWalk, an innovative assistive device that helps paralyzed people walk again
• Opens the Right Hemisphere Stroke Center, the only center in the U.S. dedicated to treating all components of right hemisphere stroke syndrome
• The Sheerr Gait and Motion Analysis Laboratory is first in the region to become “Fully Accredited” by the Commission for Motion Laboratory Accreditation
• The Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute moves to its new research tower in the MossRehab Elkins Park Campus

About MossRehab

If you have a serious physical injury or disorder, MossRehab can help rebuild your life.

MossRehab is the largest provider of inpatient and outpatient physical medicine and rehabilitation in the Philadelphia region. We have substantial accreditations and recognition for being both a national and world leader in our field and are proud to be recognized as one of the nation’s 10 best rehabilitation hospitals, as ranked by U.S.News & World Report.

We have a long history of commitment to offering the highest level of service and are dedicated to moving the field of medical rehabilitation forward through research, advocacy and education.

MossRehab implements a complete continuum of care from inpatient to community re-entry for:

• Brain injury
• Spinal cord injury
• Stroke and neurological disease
• Mobility disorders
• Aphasia
• Amputation
• Chronic disabilities
• Orthopedic issues, including upper and lower extremity, muscle, bone and joint

Additionally, we provide post-surgical rehabilitation programs for long-term recovery and lifetime follow-up as well as patient and caregiver support groups.

Therapies include:

• Physical
• Speech
• Occupational
• Recreational
• Sports

Why MossRehab

• Largest rehabilitation provider in the region with the most beds: 196
• The region’s only rehab facility with an on-site acute care hospital, at our main location in Elkins Park, as well as at satellite inpatient locations in Logan, Frankford, Langhorne and Allentown
• Innovative technologies, including robotics and advanced sensory, motion and neurophysical diagnostic labs
• Above average regional and national scores for inpatient functional independence measure outcomes
• All board-certified physicians, most of whom have a second certification in his or her specialty
• Designated Centers of Excellence for brain injury and stroke, as awarded by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) and The Joint Commission
• More CARF accredited programs for brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke and amputation than any other rehab provider on the U.S.News & World Report list
• Repeatedly recognized as one of U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals”
• Three Philadelphia magazine “Top Docs”
• Access to some of the most advanced rehabilitation treatments, guided by the latest research findings of our  Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
• The region’s only rehab facility with the capability to fabricate and modify prostheses directly on the premises
• Customized treatment plans designed to meet a patient’s individual needs
• Five inpatient and 11 outpatient locations throughout the region

Your care goes beyond just physical needs

We understand that your needs may be more than just physical. You can take comfort in knowing we offer services to help you and your family deal with other issues relating to your injury or illness, including psychological, emotional and spiritual needs that may accompany your individual circumstance.