EMMC events to mark Rehabilitation Week

More than 100 people were admitted to the Grant 5 Rehabilitation Center at Eastern Maine Medical Center and 1,000 were treated as outpatients in 1989, according to figures released by EMMC.

Grant 5 Rehabilitation Center will hold a series of events celebrating National Rehabilitation Week, which runs from Sunday, Sept. 16, through Saturday, Sept. 22.

On Monday, the public will be invited to attend the “Heads Up” kickoff in EMMC’s Mason Auditorium. Heads Up is a prevention program designed to help young people think before acting. It includes discussion by a team of nurses and physical and occupational therapists about the physiology of the head and spine and what happens after an injury.

On the Friday before the celebration, the staff will hold a pizza party, and Dr. Philip L. Mossman will speak on psychological and social aspects of illness.

The center serves not only those who are chemically dependent but those needing physical rehabilitation, one center official said.

The center is involved in physical, occupational, speech, audiology, orthotics and prosthetics therapies, employee health, pain management and rehabilitation medicine.