Shands HealthCare provides HealthCasts covering a wide variety of general health issues. Shands HealthCare is a private, not-for-profit healthcare system affiliated with the University of Florida and its Health Science Center campuses in Gainesville and Jacksonville. It includes eight Shands hospitals, two home-health agencies and more than 80 affiliated UF outpatient practices located throughout North Central and Northeast Florida. Our 13,000 employees, 3,500 volunteers and 1,500 UF and community physicians contribute to our excellent reputation and share a common vision, “The Science of Hope.”

Putting Recovery within Reach - Shands Rehab Hospital (November 20, 2008)

What happens when a patient leaves the hospital after a traumatic spinal cord or brain injury or debilitating disease? Typically, the patient goes through a rehabilitation program to try to restore body functions that may have been lost.