Kansas Rehabilitation Hospital, a Joint Venture of

Inpatient rehabilitation facility · Topeka, KS · For profit

Moderate SCI volume
59of 100
SCI.help rehab quality score, ranked #316 of 1104 rated facilities. CMS quality measures (75%) blended with SCI patient volume (25%), plus flat bonuses for CARF Spinal Cord accreditation and SCI Model System designation.
  • 44 SCI patients/yr
  • Moderate SCI volume
  • CMS certified 11/28/1988
  • CCN 173025

Kansas Rehabilitation Hospital, a Joint Venture of is an inpatient rehabilitation facility in Topeka, Kansas. It reports treating about 44 spinal cord injury patients a year, and scores 59 out of 100 on the SCI.help rehab quality score, ranking #316 of the 1104 US inpatient rehabilitation facilities CMS publishes enough data to rate.

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Volume matters more than almost anything else in SCI rehab. Compare this facility against the rest of Kansas, and read how to choose an SCI rehab facility.

How the score breaks down

Each CMS measure is converted to a national percentile and direction-normalized so higher is always better. Domain scores are weighted averages of the measures a facility actually reported, so missing data is never scored as worst.

DomainScoreWeight
Function at discharge72 / 10030% of the overall score
Outcomes after discharge53 / 10035% of the overall score
Safety and infection control46 / 10035% of the overall score
Process measures76 / 100not weighted

Volume and SCI specialization are then folded in, because CMS measures cover all rehabilitation patients rather than spinal cord injury specifically:

StepValueWeight
CMS quality composite56.1 / 10075% of the blend
SCI patient volume, as a national percentile69 / 10025% of the blend
Blended59 / 100
Overall59 / 100capped at 100

Based on 14 of 14 measures reported to CMS.


CMS quality measures

Every measure CMS publishes for this facility, with the national median beside it. Percentile is this facility's standing among all 1221 US inpatient rehabilitation facilities, where 100 is best.

CMS measureThis facilityNational medianPercentile
Discharge function score (self-care + mobility)
Function at discharge
79.27%61.87%79
top 21% nationally
Discharge self-care score
Function at discharge
70.87%60%65
top 35% nationally
Discharge mobility score
Function at discharge
69.24%56.51%66
top 34% nationally
Successful return to home/community (risk-standardized)
Outcomes after discharge · No Different than the National Rate
68.22%67.56%57
top 43% nationally
Preventable readmission, 30 days after discharge (risk-std)
Outcomes after discharge · No Different than the National Rate
9.88%9.16%22
bottom 22% nationally
Preventable readmission during the stay (risk-std)
Outcomes after discharge · No Different than the National Rate
3.86%4.69%90
top 10% nationally
New or worsened pressure ulcers (risk-adjusted)
Safety and infection control
0.88%0.64%38
bottom 38% nationally
Catheter-associated UTI (standardized infection ratio)
Safety and infection control · No Different than the National Benchmark
0ratio0.8ratio86
top 14% nationally
C. difficile infection (standardized infection ratio)
Safety and infection control · No Different than the National Benchmark
0.54ratio0.17ratio23
bottom 23% nationally
Falls with major injury
Safety and infection control
0.35%0%14
bottom 14% nationally
Staff flu vaccination
Other
93.2%81.03%80
top 20% nationally
Medications reviewed with follow-up
Other
99.88%99.44%73
top 27% nationally
Med list given to patient/caregiver
Other
100%100%72
top 28% nationally
Med list given to next care setting
Other
100%99.77%78
top 22% nationally

Who this facility treats

Annual patient counts by condition, as reported to CMS. Counts under 11 are suppressed by CMS for privacy and appear as "Less than 11".

Condition treatedPatients per year
All other conditions246
Hip or knee replacement, amputation or other bone or joint condition217
Stroke176
Brain disease or condition (non-traumatic)117
Hip or femur fracture96
Nervous system disorder (excluding stroke)76
Brain injury (traumatic)52
Spinal cord disease or condition (non-traumatic)33
Spinal cord injury (traumatic)11

Contact and details

Address1504 Sw 8Th Avenue, Topeka, KS, 66606
Phone(785) 235-6600
CMS provider nameKANSAS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL, A JOINT VENTURE OF
CMS Certification Number173025
OwnershipFor profit

Phone numbers in the CMS provider file are sometimes a corporate or billing line rather than the rehab unit. Call and ask for the spinal cord injury program directly.


Three questions to ask this facility

  • "How many spinal cord injury patients are on the unit right now?" The CMS figure above is a year old by the time it publishes.
  • "What is your protocol for autonomic dysreflexia?" A specialized unit answers instantly. See the AD protocol.
  • "Will I leave with the right wheelchair ordered?" Ask whether seating evaluation happens in-house.

The full list, and what the answers should sound like, is in choosing an SCI rehab facility and what to ask before discharge.


Other SCI rehab options in Kansas

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Where this data comes from

Facility data on this page is from CMS Care Compare — Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) QRP, Provider Data Mar 2026, published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and processed 2026-06-08. CARF Spinal Cord System of Care status is from CARF's public provider directory. SCI Model System designation is from the federally funded SCI Model Systems program. The 100-point score is calculated by SCI.help; the full methodology and the underlying dataset are public.

A quality score is a starting point, not a recommendation. CMS measures cover all rehabilitation patients, not spinal cord injury specifically, and no public dataset captures how good a program is at SCI in particular. Use this to build a shortlist, then call and ask the questions above.