Adult Rehabilitation

Adult Rehabilitation is one of the key services at The Royal Hospital Donnybrook (RHD).  The service is led by a consultant in rehabilitation medicine, Dr. Áine Carroll, who also works in the National Rehabilitation Hospital and St. Vincent's University Hospital. 

Based around 12 beds, the service in the RHD specialises in longer term, slow stream rehabilitation, lasting more than three months.  Wherever possible, patients are accommodated in the Phoenix Unit, which is a ward with self-catering facilities.  Patients in Phoenix are encouraged and supported to cook for themselves (and their fellow patients) and to undertake a full range of domestic tasks, including their own laundry.

Adult rehabilitation patients undertake a structured programme of therapy with the multi-disciplinary team.  Individual goals are set with the patients and they work closely with the whole team to achieve these goals.

Patients may also have periods in the Transition Lodge, a self-contained wheelchair accessible cottage in the grounds of the hospital.  Here they can practice the skills required for independence, or can perhaps learn new ways of living independently, with the support of their carers.

From the very start, the team will focus on discharge from the hospital.  They will assist each patient to find the appropriate accommodation and supports needed to leave the hospital.

In November 2007, the Phoenix Rehabilitation Unit won first place in the Reconfiguration Category of the Better Service Awards in the Dublin mid-Leinster region.  The project went on to participate in the HSE National Achievement Awards which took place in the Mansion House in Dublin in April 2008.  These awards brought together the HSE Innovation and Quality and Safety Awards for the first time. 

For further information on admission to Adult Rehabilitation, please contact:

Medical Admissions Officer, 01-4066639, medicaladmin@rhd.ie