The Joint Commission Accreditation

By demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety, HealthSouth Valley of the Sun Rehabilitation Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™.

Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission is dedicated to continuously improving the safety and quality of the nation's health care through voluntary accreditation. An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission is the nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.

The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits nearly 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States, including more than 8,000 hospitals and home care organizations, and more than 6,800 other health care organizations that provide long term care, assisted living, behavioral health care, laboratory and ambulatory care services. The Joint Commission also accredits health plans, integrated delivery networks, and other managed care entities. In addition, The Joint Commission provides certification of disease-specific care programs, primary stroke centers, and health care staffing services.

Stroke Rehabilitation Center of Excellence

HealthSouth Valley of the Sun Rehabilitation Hospital is proud to be a Stroke Rehabilitation Center of Excellence.

The Stroke Rehabilitation Center of Excellence designation is a rigorous internal recognition program that highlights the accomplishments of HealthSouth Hospitals that have exceeded established benchmarks in clinical programming and patient outcomes for the treatment of stroke.

Some of those benchmarks include the program being led by a board-certified physician with expertise and specialized training in stroke. The hospital's medical staff includes specialty physicians in the areas of neurology, cardiology, gastroenterology, urology, and pulmonary and internal medicine.

Stroke Rehabilitation Centers of Excellence employ treatment teams of specially trained clinicians in the areas of physical, occupational and speech therapies, in addition to nursing. These treatment teams meet weekly to develop individualized course of treatment for patients. The course of treatment could include a combination of the following specialty programs: cognitive retraining, behavior management, comprehensive spasticity management, neuropsychological testing and treatment, augmentative communication, driving education, and gait and balance, training.

Stroke teams also meet with patient and family to obtain input for the plan of care. Structured family education series provide caregivers disease-specific information on prevention, medication management and coping strategies.

Stroke Rehabilitation Centers of Excellence provide discharge planning and continuing education initiatives to stroke patients in the form of vocational and community re-entry education, transitional living, home evaluations and therapeutic home visits. Stroke support groups meet at the facility monthly and are available for patients and their families following discharge.

Joint Commission Stroke Certification (11/15/10)

Joint Commission for Special Hospital and Home Health

Arizona Hospital Association

Glendale Chamber of Commerce

Arizona Association of Rehab Nurses

American Parkinson Disease Association

Arizona Brain Injury Association

Amputee Coalition of America

Amputees Across America

American Chronic Pain Association

VitalStim Resource Center

Medtronic

Affiliated with multiple universities for clinical internship opportunities for PT, OT, SLP, Pharmacy and Nursing.

back to top