Community Services

ABI Rehabilitation provides an extensive range of specialist brain injury assessment and rehabilitation treatment services for clients living in the community.

All of these services operate under contract with ACC. ACC case managers have access to the details of the contracts held by ABI Rehabilitation New Zealand.

We see clients in their home, work place, school or other community settings as appropriate. We are also able to provide services in a clinic based setting.

Quality and efficiency are the key drivers in community services. Therefore ABI Rehabilitation guarantees responsiveness, reporting quality and timeliness. These are not only vital for the case manager, so they can ensure good decisions are made about the clients rehabilitation plan, but also to reduce delays for the client and promote return-to-work where possible.

The interdisciplinary team consists of experienced clinicians including medical specialists, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, speech language therapists and rehabilitation nurses. Our specialty area is traumatic brain injury rehabilitation however we do offer rehabilitation services to other clients with injury and disability.

Services we provide include “Training for Independence” programmes, vocational assessments and rehabilitation programmes, psychological services, concussion services, neuropsychological assessments and specialist assessments. We pride ourselves on being able to provide quality, timely, coordinated, goal focused, and tailor made rehabilitation services to our clients.

Over the next year, we will be paying significant and increasing attention to integrating an improved vocational rehabilitation and participation focus into all our rehabilitation programmes as well as developing our capacity and skill in these important areas.

Māori represent over a quarter of our client group. We are passionate about meeting the quality expectations of Māori whānau and this service will develop in the next twelve months with greater leadership from within and support from other Māori health providers.