Ranken Jordan Pediatric Specialty Hospital

Ranken Jordan Pediatric Specialty Hospital (more commonly known as Ranken Jordan) is a private, not-for-profit, specialty pediatric rehabilitation hospital located in Maryland Heights, Missouri.

Ranken Jordan provides interdisciplinary, specialized care, rehabilitation, and treatment to children 2-weeks to 18 years of age with complex medical needs. Ranken Jordan provides care for all children regardless of their ability to pay. Ranken Jordan is equipped with nursing care, respite care, and education facilitation services; Physical, Occupational, Speech, Respiratory, and Recreation therapies. Outpatient therapy evaluations and treatment services. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary child development programming and Social Services.

The facility treats children with injuries and illnesses including, but not limited to:
 * Brain injuries
 * Burns
 * Complications from prematurity
 * Complications from obesity
 * Neuromuscular diseases
 * Orthopedic injuries
 * Ventilator dependency
 * Paralysis

The facility includes 34 inpatient pediatric beds; therapy gym and aqua therapy pool; developmental testing and child-centered activity areas; computer center; art therapy room; music and movement room; life skills kitchen; and a fully accessible playground both indoor and outdoor. From the children referred to Ranken Jordan about ninety percent of patients come from families with incomes below federal poverty levels. Children are admitted by referrals from other pediatric healthcare facilities and from children's hospitals.

Mission
Ranken Jordan is a specialty pediatric hospital providing a continuum of care for medically complicated children and their families.

Inpatient
Ranken Jordan provides 24-hour nursing care and medical supervision for children who are discharged from full-service tertiary care hospitals and are too ill to return home. They provide care for technologically-dependent children and patients with high rehabilitative care needs.

Outpatient
This program provides physical, occupational, and speech therapy through an interdisciplinary approach for children who no longer require 24-hour care, yet still need individualized rehabilitation. In 2004, 1,926 quarter-hour sessions of outpatient rehab were provided.

Day Treatment
The Day Treatment Program provides intensive therapy services, developmental intervention and caregiver education in an interdisciplinary model to meet the rehabilitative needs of children with medical and physical challenges. The goal is to increase independent function and to assist children in reaching their maximum potential and to transition back into their community.

HOPE
The HOPE program is Healing Opportunities through Plan and Education. Children with complex physical and medical problems usually have much less peer contact than other children their ages. This program emphasizes group activities and interaction to strengthen the child's physical, cognitive, social, and emotional skills. Therapists structure peer group activities to promote self-reliance, social interaction and to employ new skills in play and daily routines.

Art Therapy
The Kodner Gallery Art Therapy Program is comprised of many important elements for a medically challenged child's development: muscular (physical) coordination, sensory stimulation, educational appreciation of art and emerging self-esteem expression. The therapy includes working with nationally-known artists.

Pulmonary
Pulmonary Care Services are for children who require specialized pulmonary technology and care.

Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Focus on cognitive, motor skills, communication, and academic achievement smoothing the child's re-entry into home, school, and community.

History
Ranken Jordan began as a small facility in St. Louis, Missouri on April 9, 1941 through the philanthropy of founder, Mary Ranken Jordan. It was a small place, yet state-of-the-art facility, located in the country. Children came to convalesce from polio, osteomyelitis and bone tuberculosis. Located west of Lindbergh Boulevard, it had no air conditioning, yet many summer nights the children would spend the night sleeping on porch roofs, built especially for that purpose. As the children's bodies healed, they went on their way and others arrived to fill the beds. Mary Ranken Jordan visited regularly to have tea and talk with the children, which she knew all by name. The total expenses for the first year of Ranken Jordan were just over $15,100. Sixty-five years later the average cost to run Ranken for a single day is $8,200. Mary Ranken Jordan passed away in 1962 and left a sizable endowment to maintain her dream.

Administrative Leadership

 * Laureen K. Tanner, RN, MSN - President and Chief Executive Officer
 * Jean Bardwell             - Chief Financial Officer
 * Brett Moorehouse          - Vice President of Strategic Direction & Therapy Services
 * Nick Holekamp, MD         - Chief Medical Officer