Rehabilitation services for people living with physical disabilities.
Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre (SJGRC)
The Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre (formerly the Mona Rehabilitation Centre) was established in October 1954 during the Poliomyelitis (polio) outbreak in Jamaica. The Centre, which was founded by Sir John Golding, a British Orthopaedic Surgeon, along with a small team of dedicated health professionals, served as the only public Centre in Jamaica and the English-speaking Caribbean and catered for the rehabilitation of patients afflicted with polio. The facility was later named in his honour following his death in 1996.
With the eradication of polio the centre also began treating patients with spinal cord injuries due mainly to motor vehicle accidents. Stroke victims and children with congenital limb weakness/deformities are also treated at the centre. Lower limb prostheses are fabricated at the centre and enable amputees to walk again. The goal of rehabilitation is to make the patient as independent as possible within the limits of the disability.
The centre takes a multidisciplinary approach to the rehabilitation and treats patients of all ages. The children at the centre are integrated into schools and do reasonably well. The patients also participate in sports which form part of rehabilitation and the Jamaica Para-Olympic Association which started in 1966. They have won more Olympic medals than their able bodied counterparts.
The Centre caters to the rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injuries due mainly to traumatic or non-traumatic causes. It has a capacity of sixty-eight (68) beds; 28 adult beds and 40 paediatric beds. There is also an outpatient general orthopedic clinic on Tuesdays and an artificial limb clinic on first Fridays.
7 Golding Avenue Kingston 7 Phone: 876-927-2504 or 876-977-1469 Visiting Hours: 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. &
4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Mission
The Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre exists to provide the highest quality rehabilitation health care services to optimize the health, function, and quality of life for persons with altered body functions, regardless of social and financial status, cultural, or religious beliefs.
The health care professionals are committed to working as a team to meet the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being of each individual so that they can realize their optimum potential and re-enter society to live useful, productive, and satisfying lives.
Vision
Our vision is to provide high quality and accessible rehabilitative services in Jamaica and the Caribbean that will enable individuals who were born with or acquire alteration of body functions to receive empowerment, so that they can live useful, satisfying and productive lives.
Services
Patients with congenital illnesses
Spinal cord injury and severe rehabilitation needs
Medical Care for Spinal Cord Injuries
Physiotherapy
Counselling
Psychiatry
Social Work