Sophia Revalidatie provides intensive rehabilitation programmes and expertise to enable adults and children to return to maximum independence following illness or injury.
For many people rehabilitation may (temporarily) have to be part of their daily routine. That is why Sophia Revalidatie believes that this kind of care should be available close at hand. You can find our rehabilitation centres in The Hague, Delft and Gouda. The Sophia Foundation supports rehabilitation in schools for disabled children in The Hague and Delft as well.
In all our rehabilitation centres outpatient care is available. In The Hague we provide inpatient care for 82 persons.
For all our treatments referral from a GP or specialist consultant is necessary. A medical report or a letter of referral is required. Only after examination by the rehabilitation specialist consultant admission or treatment can be started. The rehabilitation consultant and the patient set individual goals for treatment.
A treatment team may, depending on the patient’s needs and goals, include one or more of the following professionals next to the rehabilitation consultant:
Dietician
Music therapist
Occupational therapist
Pedagogue
Physiotherapist
Recreational therapist
Rehabilitation nurse
Rehabilitation psychologist
Remedial teacher
Sexologist
Social worker
Speech and language therapist
Sports therapist
All Sophia Centres closely cooperate with special schools for disabled children. When a child visits school elsewhere the treatment team acts in close contact with the teacher concerned.
Queen Sophia, wife of King William III, died in 1877. She was known to have taken a personal interest in the poor and sick. In 1880 a home for destitute children was established in Scheveningen, dedicated to her memory and called The Sophia Foundation. It changed its location many times and eventually housed adults as well as children. The Foundation was often better known by the name of its actual location. The best known of all undoubtedly was the so-called “Zeehospitium” (Sea Hospice) at Kijkduin. By that time people disabled by injuries, vascular and congenital disorders had succeeded the destitute children of the past.
The polio epidemic of the ‘fifties’ did much to speed up the opening of a Rehabilitation Centre in Delft. In 1957 The Foundation “Rehabilitation Centre Delft and Surrounding Area” was established and a start was made to treat physically disabled children.
Then again, different groups of patients succeeded each other and a special school for physical disabled children was added. In 1969 the Rehabilitation Centre was housed in a new building, which made it possible to also accept disabled adults for outpatient treatment.
In de mid eighties the two foundations of Kijkduin and Delft issued a Declaration of Intent in which agreements of future collaboration were stated.
In 1991 the Sophia Foundation and the Foundation “Rehabilitation Centre Delft and Surrounding Area” merged to constitute a renovated “Sophia Revalidatie”.
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