Encompass Health Corporation is pleased to announce our 2025 call for grant applications. This year, we are offering research funding grant(s) totaling up to $60,000 aimed at the investigation of the impact or effectiveness of rehabilitation services in the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) post-acute care setting, knowledge translation or implementation science.
Objectives and expected outcomes
The overall objective of this grant is to support research efforts that investigate the impact and/or effectiveness of rehabilitation services on neurological impairments within the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF). This grant award may also support studies that investigate implementation science or knowledge translation that studies implementing evidence into practice. Through this grant award Encompass Health is promoting efforts to expand the available research by exploring the impact and assisting in filling the gap of available research for rehabilitation services in IRFs.
Priority topics & identified gaps that may qualify for funding
This list of potential topics offers interested applicant’s studies that may be considered the highest priority for the grant funding award:
Impact and/or effectiveness of therapies on neurological impairments
Efficacy of physical, occupational, speech therapy or nursing assessments or interventions
Impact of modes or intensity of therapies on patient outcomes and experience
Impact of therapy or nursing assessments or interventions on outcomes or experience
Prevention or control of rehabilitation-related conditions
Patient and caregiver education programming impact or outcomes
Performance improvement that impacts outcome data
Case studies or case series studies that reflect the impact to patient outcomes
Implementation science and knowledge translation research aimed at the study of rehabilitation methods to implement research findings for neurological impairments