Life-care planning

Comprehensive Life Care Planning Services focus on individuals who have sustained a personal or catastrophic injury, have a congenital disease or acquired illness, or suffered a traumatic event that altered his or her life leaving them with a disabling condition. New Mercy's Rehabilitation Counselors can assist clients and families in need of planning how to live with these ongoing life changes. The Rehabilitation Counselor's expertise involves projecting the individual's needs over their Life Expectancy. Life Care Planning is beneficial in the following cases:

• Spinal Cord injuries
• Paraplegia
• Quadriplegia
• Brain Damaged Babies
• Cerebral Palsy
• Severe Brain Injuries
• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
• Back or Neck Injury with Chronic Pain Syndrome
• Amputations
• Severe Loss of Hearing
• Psychiatric or Psychological Trauma
• AIDS
• Blindness
• Severe Burns