Nearly all of our inpatient admissions (patients who will be staying at the hospital for an extended period of time as they undergo rehab) come directly from other hospitals. It’s important you tell your doctors and hospital staff when it's time for you to be discharged for rehab, you want to go to Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital in Schenectady, NY. They will then contact us to make arrangements. When it comes to outpatient services such as physical or occupational therapy, you can contact one of our twelve clinics in the Capital Region directly.

There's a big difference. We're a hospital specifically devoted to physical rehabilitation. We offer what's known as "acute" rehab—which is basically "hospital-level" rehab. That allows us to give patients a lot more hours of rehab during the week to help them recover quicker and return home sooner. Most other places offering inpatient rehab are nursing homes that provide "sub-acute" rehab, meaning fewer hours and less intense rehab. Depending If your insurance company approves your admission to Sunnyview, you should definitely choose Sunnyview.

Absolutely. We're the only hospital of its kind—dedicated solely to physical rehab—in all of upstate New York. In many cases, we represent a patient's best chance of getting back to living the life they previously led. We actually have patients at Sunnyview who also live outside of the Northeast. Over the years, we've rehabilitated patients from nearly every state.

In most cases, yes. Insurance coverage at Sunnyview is similar to coverage at full-service hospitals. Most patients at Sunnyview are covered by an insurance plan. Always check with your insurance company for specific details.  Additional Billing Information.

We have a lot of special, state-of-the-art equipment here at Sunnyview, and our donations help us buy a lot of that equipment; everything from special wheelchairs to devices patients wear to help them walk. We also use donations to fund special programs and services, and for our James A. Eddy Memorial Foundation Research Institute, which does cutting-edge research in the field of rehabilitation medicine. Donate through the Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation.

We recognize how important it is for patients and loved ones to see each other and we believe family support is vital to a patient's recovery. However, at times we have to revert to a visitation policy that is more restrictive than we like due to ongoing COVID-19 concerns. Generally speaking, we are more restrictive when transmission rates in the community are trending higher. Here's our current visitation policy.