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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s Henry B. Betts, MD, LIFE Center provides various services to help anyone seeking personalized support including patients, families, visitors and professionals. Explore our offerings below.
Online Resource Assistance
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Anyone seeking information on living with a condition affecting ability may make a LIFE Center Resource Request. You will be put in touch with one of our knowledgeable staff, including nurses, rehabilitation professionals and medical librarians, who will curate information and personally respond to your request.
In addition to its circulating library of books and digital materials, the LIFE Center also has access to a myriad of medical databases to help research requests. The LIFE Center's resource assistance is available to anyone. You need not be a Shirley Ryan AbilityLab patient to make a request.
Andrew Wahl, MSLS, is the LIFE Center Medical Librarian and is available for assisting SRALab staff with literature search requests, article/document retrieval, and for providing 1:1 training for both internal and external database sources.
Please feel free to connect with Drew via email awahl@sralab.org
In-person Patient and Family Education
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Educators provide families and patients receiving care at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab with personalized, in-person learning opportunities and support. Patients and families speak with educators one-on-one preparing patients for successful discharge and community reintegration.
Seeking personalized support or resources? Make a LIFE Center Resource Request.
Peer Mentor Program
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Former patients, families and caregivers representing many medical conditions form a team of mentors who share their lived experiences to support current patients, families and caregivers. We currently have over 35 peers in the program and are actively adding more. If you’re interested in connecting with or becoming a peer mentor, visit our Peer Mentor Program page.
