Recent News

• August 27, 2008 VA Secretary Peake Visits RIC The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), ranked the nation’s “#1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America”[1], today announced that Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Lt. Gen. James Peake (Ret.), MD, toured RIC to learn about its leading rehabilitation medicine models and innovative research that can continue to benefit service members with severe injuries such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), estimated to affect more than 320,000 service members who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
• August 27, 2008 RIC Featured in Worldwide Media Story about Vietnamese Boy RIC’s innovative pediatric care was featured in the worldwide media coverage of a two-year-old male patient from Vietnam, Phung Thien Nhan, who was left in the jungle to die and, subsequently, was mauled by wild animals before monks saved him and nursed him back to health.
• August 19, 2008 RIC Brain Injury Program Receives Two Federal Grants for Innovative Research The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the #1 rehabilitation hospital in the country[1], today announced two significant research grants awarded to the Brain Injury Medicine and Rehabilitation Program to fuel cutting-edge research awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
• July 22, 2008 Dr. Steven Stanos and RIC’s Center for Pain Management Featured on ReachMD XM Radio Show
• July 14, 2008 RIC Ranked “#1 Rehabilitation Hospital in America” by U.S. News & World Report for the 18th Consecutive Year The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the leading physical medicine and rehabilitation hospital in the country, today announced it has been ranked the “#1 rehabilitation hospital in America” for the 18th consecutive year. The rankings are based on a survey of board-certified physiatrists (physicians who specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation) as reported in the July 28th“Best Hospitals” issue of U.S. News & World Report.
• June 30, 2008 U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin Recommends Partnering of VA Hospitals With Private Rehab Facilities
• June 30, 2008 RIC Offers New Intensive Aphasia Therapy Program
• June 9, 2008 RIC Responds to America's Pain Epidemic Through Expansion of the RIC Center for Pain Management
• May 28, 2008 RIC's Brain Injury Program Nationally Recognized
• May 27, 2008 New Medical Director Appointed to RIC’s Cancer Rehabilitation Program to Enhance and Expand Cancer Care Model