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University of Michigan Health

Academic medical center · SCI Model System · Ann Arbor, MI

⭐ SCI Model SystemSCI specialty hospital

University of Michigan Health is a federally designated SCI Model System in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and one of the specialty rehabilitation hospitals that CMS does not assign a quality score. A research-intensive academic Model System; a smaller dedicated SCI inpatient footprint than the two specialty hospitals, but a recognized center of excellence.

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Why there is no 0-100 score here. The SCI.help rehab score is built from CMS Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility quality data. Program-exempt specialty hospitals like this one are not in that dataset, so scoring them against it would be inventing a number. They are included because leaving the country's best-known SCI hospitals out of a rehab finder would be worse. Compare scored facilities on the Michigan state page.

What this hospital is

  • Federally designated SCI Model System (Michigan Spinal Cord Injury System), funded by NIDILRR
  • Acute inpatient rehabilitation unit with 40 private beds
  • CARF-accredited; multidisciplinary SCI rehabilitation inside a major academic medical center
  • Active SCI research program and a physician SCI fellowship

Three questions to ask

  • "How many spinal cord injury patients are on the unit right now?"
  • "Will my insurance cover an out-of-state admission here, and who negotiates that?" Specialty hospitals take patients from all over the country, and the answer is usually yes but needs work. See navigating health insurance.
  • "Will I leave with the right wheelchair ordered?"

The full list is in choosing an SCI rehab facility.

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Compiled from public sources including the hospital's own published figures and the SCI Model Systems program. SCI.help has no affiliation with this hospital and receives nothing for listing it.