Voorhees, NJ, February 21, 2000-Magee Rehabilitation and MossRehab have opened a new outpatient rehabilitation satellite office at Jefferson HealthCARE Voorhees, 443 Laurel Oak Road in Voorhees, NJ (located in the Voorhees Corporate Center). Both organizations are nationally recognized rehabilitation providers and members of the Jefferson Health System. The new site is the first major joint initiative between the two hospitals. Additional sites are in the planning stages.

Serving residents of South Jersey, Magee-MossRehab at Voorhees offers comprehensive medical rehabilitation. Services focus on sports-, work- and accident-related injuries, including hand, wrist, knee and shoulder problems and back pain. Specialty services include treatment for traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and stroke. The practice is staffed by physical and occupational therapists and other rehabilitation specialists. Magee-MossRehab at Voorhees is open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Wednesday and Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

For more information about Magee-MossRehab at Voorhees, call 856-741-7400.

Physicians from across the country ranked both Magee and MossRehab among the nation's best rehabilitation facilities in U.S.News & World Report's annual Best Hospitals issue.

Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, part of the Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of Delaware Valley in affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, is one of the Philadelphia region's original providers of physical and cognitive rehabilitation. The not-for-profit health organization provides lifetime rehabilitation and wellness programs for persons with spinal cord injury, brain injury, orthopedic injury, stroke, amputation, geriatric illnesses and work injury.

Celebrating its centennial year, MossRehab is one of the Philadelphia region's leading providers of medical rehabilitation services, with programs designed for those who have experienced brain injury, stroke, amputation and other physical disabilities. In addition, MossRehab was designated by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research to establish a Model System of Care for traumatic brain injury - the only center of its kind in the region. MossRehab also offers a number of outpatient sites through MossCare Network.

Jefferson Health System (JHS), formed in 1996, now includes Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH), Methodist Hospital Division of TJUH, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Lankenau Hospital and Paoli Memorial Hospital; Bryn Mawr Rehab for physical medicine and rehabilitation; Jefferson HealthCARE Physicians, a primary care network that includes such organizations as Great Valley Health in the Main Line area; JeffCARE, a Physician Hospital Organization; Jefferson Home Care, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Germantown Community Health Services, Willow Terrace (a nursing home), MossRehab, Willowcrest (a center for subacute care), and Belmont Behavioral Health. Einstein also operates a number of outpatient and satellite locations and a primary care network, Einstein Neighborhood Healthcare.

Frankford Hospital includes three community teaching hospitals, the Frankford, Torresdale and Bucks campuses; three additional outpatient sites and Frankford Health Care Network Physician Services. Magee Rehabilitation Hospital completes the group.