The Road To Recovery

Begins With Winter Haven Hospital Rehabilitation Services

Winter Haven Hospital Rehabilitation Services provides therapy for persons with a wide variety of physical impairments.  They typically want to return to what they find meaningful in their lives, whether it is homemaking, golfing, walking, or driving. Each person receives an individualized program, to gain independence and participate as fully as possible in activities of choice.

The Joy-Fuller Rehabilitation Center is an inpatient rehabilitation facility, where people come to receive treatment after illnesses or injuries, and where they work on their physical, cognitive, communicative, and self care problems.  The Joy-Fuller Rehabilitation Center is accredited by CARF, The Rehabilita-tion Accreditation Commission, and is the only inpatient rehabilitation facility in Polk County.

Last year (October 2002-September 2003), The Joy-Fuller Rehabilitation Center treated 367 persons, with conditions such as strokes (153), orthopedic problems (70), brain injuries (39), hip fractures (27), spinal cord Injuries (43), multiple traumas (15), amputations (10), and other neurological conditions (10). Eighty-four percent of the patients were discharged to a home setting. Patients receive three hours of treatment per day, working with therapists on steps to achieve the goals they set for themselves.  Ninety-two percent of the patients rate the quality of care and services they received as either very good or excellent.

Ms. Daisey Ojeda, age 43, participated in the Joy-Fuller Rehabilitation Center in July of 2003, after sustaining a brain injury with broken bones and internal injuries. Ms. Ojeda reflected on her experience, stating, “The Joy-Fuller Rehabilitation Center helped me walk, bathe, dress and go to the bathroom by myself.  The nurses and therapists are great!  Now I can go to work with my friend (Rose) and help paint houses.  Rehabilitation helped me be more independent.  The Joy-Fuller Rehabilitation Center staff kept me going when I thought things were hopeless.  I appreciate everything that they did for me.”

After her car accident, Ms. Jasmyne Grant-Smith, age 19, was admitted to the Joy-Fuller Rehabilitation Center. Ms. Grant-Smith had multiple injuries, including broken bones.  Jasmyne commented, “Rehab helped me learn how to work around my injuries so I can do things on a normal basis.  Without rehab I would not have received the percentage of return that I have.  The Joy-Fuller Rehabilitation Center is amazing! It’s a hospital inside of a hospital.  They understood my individual needs.  They took my age and family into consideration.  I had never been away from my family and they let my Dad stay with me.   They encouraged me and helped me.  I needed them to push me!  The first time I took two or three steps, everyone clapped and yelled,  ‘What a great job!’ Everyone from the Housekeeper, to the Therapist, to the Head Nurse was wonderful!  I’m now back in college full-time.  Rehab helped me so much that my career path changed.  I’m enrolled in the Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant Program and hope to go on and become an Occupational Therapist.”  

The staff of the JFRC is very proud of its services! The Joy-Fuller Rehabilita-tion Center is just one of the many rehabilitation services at Winter Haven Hospital.

Other rehab services provided at Winter Haven Hospital include the following:

Close by, at our Gill Jones Center
(located at 3425 Lake Alfred Road) we offer:

For more information about these services, call (863) 292-4380 or visit our hospital web site at

www.winterhavenhospital.com