Our Expertise is Rehab
It’s time for a new approach to hospital rehab.
Hospital Rehab Services
Functional Pathways is celebrating 30 years of success providing physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy across the continuum of care, including inpatient rehab facilities, acute inpatient and outpatient sites, skilled nursing facilities, assisted and independent living facilities, and continuing care retirement communities.
Get ready for a new way forward with hospital rehab.

We’ve been providing quality rehab services for nearly three decades. Our service offerings in the hospital rehab space allow us to cover the entire healthcare continuum of care.
Our Hospital Rehab Services Model
For our acute care partners, we realize one size doesn’t fit all, so Functional Pathways offers a phased and scalable approach to help hospitals achieve their rehab goals. Our two partnership options include management services only or management services plus contract therapy across three sites of care: the inpatient rehab facility, acute inpatient therapy, and acute outpatient therapy. Our staffing and pricing model is based upon the model and sites you select.
The Functional Pathways Advantage
Over the last three decades, we’ve intentionally focused on rehab therapy only, enabling us to become one of the nation’s leading experts in the field. The expertise we bring to you includes:
- Clinical pathways to ensure strong clinical outcomes
- Recruiting expertise ensuring a stable team and therapy leader
- Identification of coding and reimbursement opportunities
- Admissions coordination oversight and market outreach
- Adherence to all compliance and regulatory requirements
- A pay-per-unit model that enhances therapy efficiency
- Denials and appeals support
- Transition planning to ensure smooth transitions across the patient care continuum
97 %
client retention rate
Improved Operational
Efficiencies & Savings
Optimized Patient Outcomes and Satisfaction
Enhanced Revenue and Growth Opportunities
Benefits to your facility
Our model is already demonstrating the ability for hospitals like yours to:
- Partner with a therapy and rehab expert without giving up ownership
- Maximize clinical outcomes
- Optimize therapy efficiency
- Grow your inpatient rehab facility/unit and outpatient market share and volume
- Enhance physician and provider satisfaction through adherence to therapy plans
- Enhance patient access, outcomes, and experience
- Reduce operating expenses through operational and organizational efficiencies
- Elevate your reputation in your region

Return on Investment Opportunity
As a hospital executive, we understand you have many competing priorities, and often rehab therapy isn’t one of them. However, success rehab therapy program can have a significant impact on your operational costs and opportunities for market share growth. Following is one example of the financial impact for a rural hospital in Texas with a 90-bed inpatient rehab facility that turned to Functional Pathways for management and contract therapy for their IRF, acute inpatient rehab, and acute outpatient rehab:
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Capture 1% market share from competing market IRFs (Medicare Part A only)
$875,000
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Incremental net revenue from increase in outpatient referrals
$61,000
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Net revenue increase of 2% CMI & MSPB on CMS IRF admissions
$47,000
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10% increase in therapy productivity
$220,000
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Total Potential Net Revenue Growth
$1.2M