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Blind Rehabilitation Service
Visual Impairment Services Outpatient Rehabilitation (VISOR) Program

 

Blind Rehab Service has an outpatient intermediate 9-day rehabilitation program called Visual Impairment Services Outpatient Program (VISOR) located in the Lebanon VA Medical Center in Pennsylvania.  It provides comfortable, safe, overnight accomodations (HOPTEL setting) for beneficiaries who are visually impaired and requiring temporary lodging in order to acess services provided through the program.  The program offers skills training, orientation and mobility, and low vision therapy.  It is staffed with Blind Rehabilitation Specialist (BROS) and Visual Impairment Service Team Coordinators (VIST) which could be either Social Workers or certified low vision therapist.   Veterans must be able to perform activities of daily living independently including the ability to self-medicate in order to access these accommodations. 

Please e-mail Wanda Washington or Mike Williams in  Blind Rehab Service for questions or comments relating to this website.

 

 

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Reviewed/Updated Date: May 4, 2009