Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney
The Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney opened in 1906. Since that time it has expanded to a major rehabilitation facility and also provides for long-term supported accommodation for 105 people in Weemala, and administers the community integration programme.
The services provided include a specialised Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit (opened July 1992), an Adult Rehabilitation Unit (specialising in clients of working age), an Aged Rehabilitation Care Unit (Dixson Unit) and a Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Unit. An Occupational Rehabilitation Unit is also located on site.
The Centre is the major clinical base for the Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and a specialist in rehabilitation medicine is associated with each clinical unit. The Centre offers post-graduate training in the speciality of rehabilitation medicine and under-graduate training for medical students and for students from the Faculty of Health Sciences (University of Sydney).
The establishment of the Centre for Developmental Disability Studies (with a five-year grant of over $2 million from the MAA) marked a new era for the Royal Rehabilitation Centre. Professor Trevor Parmenter leads an outstanding team.