Medical Rehabilitation, Section 2. The Rehabilitation and Service Process for the Persons Served

The fundamental responsibilities of the organization are to effect positive change in functional ability and independence and self-reliance across environments, while protecting and promoting the rights of the persons served. The persons served should be treated with dignity and respect at all times. All personnel are able to demonstrate their awareness of the rights of the persons served as well as their own rights. The rehabilitation and service process is delivered by an integrated team that includes the person served. The process focuses on clarity of information, efficient use of resources, reduction of redundancy in service delivery, achievement of predicted outcomes, and reintegration of the person served into the person’s community of choice.  This curriculum examines how medical rehabilitation programs ensure a comprehensive program structure with staffing designed to maximize opportunities for persons served to obtain and participate in needed services and fundamentals of the rehabilitation and service process for persons served, including standards that address the unique needs of specific diagnostic categories and children and adolescents.  Also included is a course on the specialty standards for programs that deliver services via information and communication technologies.