For Immediate Release
Contact: Derek Berry
Media Relations Manager
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Washington, DC – March 29, 2010 – National Rehabilitation Hospital will host a benefit Pro-Am Golf Tournament on Tuesday, June, 8 to assist in providing funding for hospital-related programs that help those with disabilities such as brain injuries, stroke, and spinal cord injuries.
The tournament will be held at The Members Club at Four Streams (19501 Darnestown Rd., Beallsville, Maryland) with registration beginning at 10 a.m.
Attendees will also have the chance to brush up on their golf skills before the tournament starts and partake in a barbecue style lunch on the patio. Winners of the tournament will be given prizes at the awards ceremony following cocktails and a seated dinner.
For more information, call 202.877.1776.
National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) is a private, not-for-profit facility located in Northwest Washington, D.C. NRH’s services are designed specifically for the rehabilitation of individuals with disabling injuries and illnesses such as stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury and disease, arthritis, amputations, post-polio syndrome, chronic pain, back and neck pain, occupational injuries, cancer and cardiac disease that require medical rehabilitation, and other neurological and orthopedic conditions. NRH admits approximately 2,200 inpatients annually, has appeared on the “Best Hospitals” list in U.S. News & World Report for 15 consecutive years and is currently ranked among the top hospitals in medical rehabilitation in America. NRH has the only CARF accredited specialty program for both Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke in the region. In addition, NRH’s Spinal Cord Injury Program has been designated one of only 14 Model SCI Systems of care in the country by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), a part of the Department of Education. NRH is a proud member of MedStar Health.