Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Erie is a 108-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital that offers comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation services designed to return patients to leading active and independent lives.

Our hospital provides a wide range of physical rehabilitation services, a vast network of highly skilled, independent private practice physicians and HealthSouth nurses and therapists, and the most innovative equipment and rehabilitation technology, ensuring that all patients have access to the highest quality care.

In addition to caring for general rehabilitation diagnoses such as orthopedics, cardiac, pulmonary, or general debility post surgery or illness, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Erie  has specialized inpatient programs for stroke, brain injury, neurological diseases such as Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis and Guillian-Barre syndrome, trauma and spinal cord injury. Other services offered include onsite dialysis, wound and ostomy care, tracheotomy and dietitian evaluation and treatment including enteral feeding support. Additional diagnostic testing is accomplished onsite or at adjacent UPMC Hamot Medical Center.

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Erie’s specialized care includes neurorehabilitation treatment programs that are led by our program medical director who is board certified in internal medicine, neurology, EMG, neurorehabilitation, and vascular neurology.  We specialize in advanced stroke, brain injury and neurological rehabilitation, including post-operative deep brain stimulation (DBS) rehabilitation, post-operative intrathecal baclofen (spasticity) rehabilitation and dysphagia rehabilitation program  using VitalStim (electrical stimulation therapy for recovery of swallowing) as well as DPNS (Deep Pharyngeal Neuromuscular Stimulation) therapy.