Centra has announced it is partnering with Lifepoint Rehabilitation, a business unit of Lifepoint Health, to joint venture a new rehabilitation facility to serve the needs of the greater Lynchburg community. Pending customary regulatory approvals, the planning and construction will begin. This project is estimated to take two years, and the new facility is scheduled to open in 2025.
"Both Centra and Lifepoint Rehabilitation share a strong commitment to clinical excellence and innovation,” said Amy Carrier, Centra President and CEO. “This facility will address a significant community need, while expanding the trauma services Centra provides to this region. We are excited to see this partnership come to life in meaningful ways.”
The building will be constructed on the parcel of land on Simons Run purchased by Centra in 2017. The new inpatient rehabilitation facility will provide intensive nursing, physical, occupational and speech pathology services for adults recovering from conditions such as stroke, neurological disease, brain or spinal cord injury, and other debilitating illnesses or injuries. This expansion will allow the health system to increase access to inpatient rehabilitation services in the region, addressing a significant community need.
Centra Rehabilitation Hospital will replace the 20-bed unit at Virginia Baptist Hospital. The new facility will be a state-of-the-art, modern, full-service rehabilitation hospital designed with a patient-centered focus to ensure the safest, most therapeutic environment for care. The new facility will include:
- 50 all-private rooms and full bathrooms, which will include specialty care patient rooms and isolation rooms;
- Designated wings on the second floor for both acquired brain injury and stroke patients;
- A main therapy suite, which will include a therapy gym, infrastructure for state-of-the-art patient care technology and therapy equipment, rooms for multiple therapy protocols, private therapy rooms, a cooking therapy room, an Activities of Daily Living (ADL) therapy suite/apartment; and
- State-of-the-art rehabilitation equipment such as the Bionik InMotion Arm for Neurological Rehabilitation for robotic-assisted shoulder and elbow therapy, a Smart car and Ekso Bionics EksoGT, the first FDA-cleared exoskeleton for stroke and spinal cord injury rehabilitation.
“We are pleased to build a relationship with Centra and increase access to rehabilitation services in the greater Lynchburg region,” said Russ Bailey, President, Lifepoint Rehabilitation. “Our partnership and this new facility will increase the community of therapists, nurses and other healthcare professionals dedicated to providing high-quality inpatient rehabilitation services and passionate advocacy for patients in central Virginia.”