Resource Directory for FL

Brain Injury Florida (BIF) is Florida’s only statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to individuals who have survived an acquired brain injury, their families, and caregivers. Founded in 2022, BIF’s mission is “to improve the quality of life for residents of the state of Florida who have sustained an acquired brain injury (from either traumatic or non-traumatic causes) by promoting effective awareness, education, outreach, treatment, prevention, advocacy, and support.” BIF is the statewide affiliate of the Brain Injury Association of America.

Pinecrest Rehabilitation and Outpatient Hospital at Delray Medical Center offers both inpatient and outpatient care, with an inpatient program dedicated to brain injury. The facility is an acute rehabilitation unit within Delray Medical Center that specializes in in-treatment for adult patients who have temporary or permanent disability as a result of an injury, disease, stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, orthopedic injury or surgery. The center focuses on treating patients who hope to make a complete return to their homes and communities.

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Treasure Coast (formerly HealthSouth Treasure Coast Rehabilitation Hospital) is a 90-bed acute medical rehabilitation hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services for patients from Sebastian southward to Jupiter. HealthSouth Treasure Coast Rehabilitation Hospital provides the medical, nursing, therapy and ancillary services required to comply with local, state and federal regulations.

Jackson Rehabilitation Hospital founded its TBI program in 1984. Throughout the rehabilitation program, patients with TBI focus on achieving independent mobility and self-care activities. The program addresses problems with speech, reading comprehension and other language disorders. For some patients, group therapy may be used to overcome cognitive deficits and develop compensatory strategies. Jackson's TBI rehabilitation program assists with the patient's community re-entry process by creating situations for patients to practice new skills in real-life (supervised) environments.

Mothers For TBI Hope, formerly Mothers Against Brain Injury, is a 501c3 Florida charitable organization founded and run by a mother of a son with TBI. Their mission is to provide a compendium of personal comfort items, non-clinical written information about brain injury & acute hospitalization, helpful resources, useful tools and most importantly HOPE to the family members of any person newly admitted to a trauma center with a severe TBI through their Totes of Comfort & Hope Program.

Our supported living home in Brandon is nestled in a quiet residential neighborhood outside of Tampa. This location offers a therapeutically modified living environment that ensures safety to our participants and community inclusion.

NeuroRestorative Florida has several CARF-accredited providers throughout Florida.  There are several locations in Sarasota including four single-family settings all located within the same idyllic neighborhood close to the bay and the heart of southwest Florida.Together this cluster of community-based homes provides a similar range of programs and services as well as a shared swimming pool and other outdoor features. Services include: Supported Living, Transitional Living, and Respite.

Orlando Health Rehabilitation Institute is home to the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Center (BIRC), which has specialized in brain injury treatment for more than 27 years. BIRC provides both inpatient and outpatient care. Specifically, the outpatient program specializes in treating adolescents and adults with traumatic brain injury, brain tumors, strokes, Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis and other brain and neurological diseases. BIRC works with physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists and neuropsychologists to create treatment plans.

*Opening Spring 2019*