Marianjoy

Our fellowship-trained spinal cord injury medicine physicians specialize in caring for people with spina bifida. Our goal is to help you live as independently and comfortably as possible.

Through personalized care, we work with you to:
• Improve your strength, function and mobility
• Manage neurogenic bladder and bowel
• Lessen pain and discomfort
• Manage and improve spasticity

Learn more at nm.org/SpinaBifidaCare

Aphasia affects language, not intelligence.

Someone with aphasia knows what they want to say but has difficulty finding the words to say it. Aphasia is a condition that affects a person’s ability to communicate. It can also impact a person’s ability to understand language, read and/or write.

The Northwestern Medicine Aphasia Center at Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital offers group and individual services to people living with aphasia. The Aphasia Center connects people with aphasia living in the community with one another for support and ongoing communication practice.

To learn more, visit nm.org/AphasiaRehab or call 630.909.8562.

Your recovery deserves a team of experts.

Marianjoy’s stroke rehabilitation program is led by physicians specializing in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Here, you’ll be supported by a dedicated team that includes nurses, therapists, psychologists, dietitians, pharmacists and chaplains.

Learn how we can help: nm.org/StrokeRecovery

Rehabilitation focuses on helping people perform repeated motions and everyday activities. Taken together, this helps people gain independence and strength.

As a leading rehabilitation facility, we’ve got a lot of tools to support patients as they work on movement skills. This device is one of them. It helps patients safely practice walking, balance, standing up and stairs, all while supported in a secure harness.

Speech therapy is about so much more than just words.

While speech-language pathologists help people improve communication, they also support essential skills like eating and swallowing, understanding and expressing thoughts, paying attention and problem-solving.

As we celebrate Better Speech and Hearing Month, we want to extend a heartfelt thank-you to our incredible speech therapists. Your dedication to improving quality of life — for patients of all ages, from children to older adults — is truly inspiring.

Thank you for all that you do!

A heartfelt thank you to our incredible Team NM volunteers!

This past weekend at the GoBabyGo event at Marianjoy, your kindness and dedication helped create unforgettable moments for 21 children with disabilities. Thanks to you, each ride on toy car was carefully customized with switches, large buttons and other accessibility features.

Seeing the smiles on those little faces as the kids experienced the joy of independently driving and playing — many for the first time on toys like these — was truly inspiring.

We’re proud to support events like this, and we’re even prouder of the volunteers who help make them possible.

Volunteers are essential to Marianjoy.

Many have a personal connection to the hospital, while others simply want to share their skills and make a difference. For each and every volunteer, we’re deeply grateful for their commitment to our mission of putting patients first.

This article highlights two special long-time Marianjoy volunteers.

Want to get involved? Get the details at nm.org/volunteer.

Longtime volunteers make a difference for Marianjoy patients, staff - Chronicle Media Elsie Dieden went to Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton in 2000 to help one of her special needs students acclimate to his volunteer work – and she never left. “I got hooked,” Dieden said of helping at the rehabilitation center. The former special education teacher in Community Unit ...