Specialized recovery services provide timely access to a range of physician types for people with work-related injuries or illnesses. These programs specialize in recovery and achieving a healthy and safe return to work by conducting an assessment and providing interdisciplinary treatment for more complex injuries and illnesses.
There are ten specialized recovery services that people can access across the province:
- Amputee, prosthetics and custom orthopaedic shoes
- Burn
- Back and neck
- Communicable illnesses
- Integrated pain
- Lower extremity
- Mental health
- inclusive of a pilot program specific for first responders
- Neurological injuries
- Mild traumatic brain injury
- Moderate or severe brain injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Occupational disease
- Upper extremity
Comprehensive care when and where your patients need it
Our specialized recovery services offer the expertise of interdisciplinary health care teams who work together to provide the best care possible for someone with a workplace injury or illness.
We do this by:
- ensuring timely access to a comprehensive assessment in all our specialized recovery services to develop an integrated plan for recovery and return to work.
- providing a range of expertise in consultation and treatment services that address a person’s unique health care needs within one program.
- ensuring communication, where beneficial, for physician specialists to connect with a patient’s primary health care provider to share and discuss the results of the specialist’s assessment and the treatment plan.
- including our return-to-work team to better support people’s safe return to work.
- making sure there are providers and services across the province that offer, a range of expertise.
If you are a patient in one of our specialized recovery services and want to give feedback, you can read more about how to provide patient feedback.
Referrals
To suggest a referral to one of our specialized recovery services, call us and ask to speak to your patient’s nurse consultant or case manager, or indicate in your reports back to us that you think your patient might benefit from care in one of our services.
See our contact list for specialized recovery services by location.