Wellspan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital

Inpatient rehabilitation facility · York, PA · Non-profit

High SCI volume✓ CARF Spinal Cord
80of 100
SCI.help rehab quality score, ranked #17 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.
  • 87 SCI patients/yr
  • High SCI volume
  • CMS certified 04/26/2012
  • CCN 39T327

Wellspan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital is an inpatient rehabilitation facility in York, Pennsylvania. It reports treating about 87 spinal cord injury patients a year, and scores 80 out of 100 on the SCI.help rehab quality score, ranking #17 of the 1104 US inpatient rehabilitation facilities CMS publishes enough data to rate. It holds CARF Spinal Cord System of Care accreditation.

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Volume matters more than almost anything else in SCI rehab. Compare this facility against the rest of Pennsylvania, 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 discharge58 / 10030% of the overall score
Outcomes after discharge78 / 10035% of the overall score
Safety and infection control53 / 10035% of the overall score
Process measures43 / 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 composite63.4 / 10075% of the blend
SCI patient volume, as a national percentile89 / 10025% of the blend
Blended70 / 100
CARF Spinal Cord accreditation bonus+10flat
Overall80 / 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
70.2%61.87%62
top 38% nationally
Discharge self-care score
Function at discharge
57.69%60%47
bottom 47% nationally
Discharge mobility score
Function at discharge
67.58%56.51%63
top 37% nationally
Successful return to home/community (risk-standardized)
Outcomes after discharge · Better than the National Rate
74.39%67.56%94
top 6% nationally
Preventable readmission, 30 days after discharge (risk-std)
Outcomes after discharge · No Different than the National Rate
8.88%9.16%65
top 35% nationally
Preventable readmission during the stay (risk-std)
Outcomes after discharge · No Different than the National Rate
4.59%4.69%56
top 44% nationally
New or worsened pressure ulcers (risk-adjusted)
Safety and infection control
0.08%0.64%83
top 17% nationally
Catheter-associated UTI (standardized infection ratio)
Safety and infection control · No Different than the National Benchmark
2.39ratio0.8ratio12
bottom 12% nationally
C. difficile infection (standardized infection ratio)
Safety and infection control · Better than the National Benchmark
0.27ratio0.17ratio42
bottom 42% nationally
Falls with major injury
Safety and infection control
0%0%72
top 28% nationally
Staff flu vaccination
Other
92.14%81.03%78
top 22% nationally
Medications reviewed with follow-up
Other
98.96%99.44%36
bottom 36% nationally
Med list given to patient/caregiver
Other
97.62%100%22
bottom 22% nationally
Med list given to next care setting
Other
99.48%99.77%40
bottom 40% 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 conditions287
Stroke229
Hip or knee replacement, amputation or other bone or joint condition209
Hip or femur fracture174
Nervous system disorder (excluding stroke)75
Spinal cord disease or condition (non-traumatic)68
Brain injury (traumatic)59
Brain disease or condition (non-traumatic)56
Spinal cord injury (traumatic)19

Contact and details

Address55 Monument Rd, York, PA, 17403
Phone(717) 812-6100
CMS provider nameWELLSPAN SURGERY AND REHABILITATION HOSPITAL
CMS Certification Number39T327
OwnershipNon-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 Pennsylvania

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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.