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Gaylord Specialty Healthcare is a nonprofit rehabilitation system in Wallingford, Connecticut, offering inpatient and outpatient care for patients recovering from complex medical conditions. Services include physical, occupational, and speech therapy, along with neurological, orthopedic, spinal cord injury, stroke, brain injury, pulmonary, and specialty rehabilitation programs.

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50 Gaylord Farm Road
Wallingford, CT 06492

Main Phone: (203) 284-2800
Inpatient Admissions: (203) 284-2810
Outpatient Appointments: (203) 284-2888
Physician Services: (203) 284-2845

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Inpatient
Rehabilitation Services

Brain Injury, Stroke & Young Stroke
Traurig House (Residential Brain Injury)
Spinal Cord Injury & Multitrauma
Medical, Cardiac & Wound
Pulmonary, Vent Programs & Oxygen Management
Injured Worker Program

Outpatient
Care

Orthopedic Physical Therapy
Sports Therapy
Interventional Pain Center
Physician Services
Neurological Outpatient Therapy (PT, OT, Speech)
Neuropsychology
Psychiatry & Behavioral Health
Concussion Care
Physician Services
Radiology & Imaging
Work Conditioning
SCI Day Treatment Program
Wheelchair Clinic

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Cheshire Physical Therapy
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Guilford Speech Therapy
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