University Rehabilitation Institute, Republic of Slovenia (URI)
The University Rehabiltiation Institute Republic of Slovenia (URI) is the main national health institution offering comprehensive rehabilitation services to persons with disabilities of motor functions and work abilities. The Institute carries out rehabilitation programs and cares for the balanced development of all health and other professional branches related to the issue of rehabilitation at the national level.
From the perspective of organization, the activities of the Institute for Rehabilitation, Republic of Slovenia, can be grouped as follows: Rehabiltiation – Healthcare; Research; Education.
Healthcare activities at the University Rehabilitation Institute Republic of Slovenia are organized within the following rehabilitation programs and services: Clinical hospital for prosthetics and orthotics; Outpatient rehabilitation services; rehabilitation engineering; Pharmacy.
The healthcare activities are aimed at providing inpatient and outpatient care for the patients of the URI . Modern patient care at the Institute tends towards outpatient diagnostics. Its therapeutic services strive towards shorter hospitalization or towards outpatient treatment.
Vocation Rehabilitation Centre (VRC)
VRC was within URI established in 1984. RVC represents the central institution in Slovenia in the field of vocational and employment rehabilitation of adult persons with disabilities, with the aim of developing skills and abilities so persons with disabilitites could find or keep a job.
The main RVC’s task is: provide expert support and help through vocational rehabilitation to achieve or obtain economic and social independence for disabled persons who have had prolonged sick leave and are assumed to be no longer able to perform their duties, and for persons with irreversible consequences of health problems and injuries.
VRC’s main activities are: Professional and vocational rehabilitation, continuous improvement of the services, Research, Education, Implementing national and international projects.
VRC is divided into two units: VRC Ljubljana and VRC Maribor. VRC Maribor is divided into two units: Maribor and Murska Sobota.
All units are providing services for people with mental and other health problems, unit Ljubljana is also specialized for providing services for blind and partially sighted target group. Unit in Maribor is providing social inclusion program for disabled people.
Univerzitetni rehabilitacijski inštitut Republike Slovenije Soča (URI Soča) je osrednji nacionalni zdravstveni Zavod, ki izvaja celovite storitve rehabilitacije invalidov na področju motoričnih funkcij in delovnih zmožnosti. URI Soča izvaja rehabilitacijske programe in skrbi za uravnotežen razvoj vseh zdravstvenih in drugih strokovnih vej, povezanih s problematiko rehabilitacije na nacionalni ravni.
Z vidika organizacije se dejavnosti delijo na: Rehabilitacija-zdravstvene dejavnosti, raziskave, izobraževanja, administracijo.
URI Soča je osrednji nacionalni zdravstveni Zavod, odgovoren za opravljanje najzahtevnejših nalog na področju celostne rehabilitacije.
Na URI Soča se izvaja celovita rehabilitacija bolnikov z okvarami osrednjega in perifernega živčevja, z gibanjem povezanih telesnih zgradb in funkcij ter bolnikov s kronično nerakovo bolečino. Pri tem je potrebno upoštevati vidike medicinske rehabilitacije, delovnih zmožnosti in zagotovitev ustreznih pripomočkov, kar omogoča čim večjo samostojnost in zaposlitev.
Inštitut izvaja tudi naloge terciarnega nivoja na področju izobraževanja, raziskovanja, oblikovanja doktrine in uvajanja novih spoznanj na področju fizikalne in rehabilitacijske medicine, ki jih posreduje študentom, strokovnjakom in javnosti.
Center za poklicno rehabilitacijo je bil v okviru URI Soča ustanovljen leta 1984. Predstavlja osrednjo ustanovo v Sloveniji na področju poklicne oz. zaposlitvene rehabilitacije odraslih, s ciljem, da bi le-ti razvili sposobnosti in zmožnosti do te mere, da bi lahko našli zaposlitev, jo ohranili in v njej napredovali. Od leta 2006 izvaja Center za poklicno rehabilitacijo skladno s pooblastilom Ministrstva za delo, družino, socialno zadeve in enake možnosti tudi storitve zaposlitvene rehabilitaicje.
Center za poklicno rehabilitacijo v okviru URI Soča od svoje ustanovitve uresničuje naslednje cilje: rehabilitantom, ki so dalj čas v bolniškem staležu in se zanje predvideva, da ne bodo mogli več opravljati svojega dela, ter osebam s trajnimi posledicami zdravstvenih težav in poškodb nudi strokovno podporo in pomoč, da si skozi delo in zaposlitev zagotavljajo ekonomsko in socialno neodvisnost.
Glavne dejavnosti Centra za poklicno reahbilitacijo, kot so se oblikovale od njegove ustanovitve so: obravnava rehabilitandov, razvojno raziskovalno delo, publicistična dejavnost, pedagoško delo, izvajanje nacionalnih in mednarodnih projektov.
Dejavnost Centra za poklicno rehabilitacijo se izvajajo v dveh službah: v službi Ljubljana in službi Maribor, ki vključuje enoto Maribor in enoto Murska Sobota. V enoti Maribor se izvaja tudi program socialne vključenosti.