Call for grant applications
Deadline for submission: Sept. 30, 2025, 5 p.m. EST
Encompass Health Corporation is pleased to announce our 2025 call for grant applications. This year, we are offering research funding grant(s) totaling up to $60,000 aimed at the investigation of the impact or effectiveness of rehabilitation services in the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) post-acute care setting, knowledge translation or implementation science.
Objectives and expected outcomes
The overall objective of this grant is to support research efforts that investigate the impact and/or effectiveness of rehabilitation services on neurological impairments within the inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF). This grant award may also support studies that investigate implementation science or knowledge translation that studies implementing evidence into practice. Through this grant award Encompass Health is promoting efforts to expand the available research by exploring the impact and assisting in filling the gap of available research for rehabilitation services in IRFs.
Priority topics & identified gaps that may qualify for funding
This list of potential topics offers interested applicant’s studies that may be considered the highest priority for the grant funding award:
- Impact and/or effectiveness of therapies on neurological impairments
- Efficacy of physical, occupational, speech therapy or nursing assessments or interventions
- Impact of modes or intensity of therapies on patient outcomes and experience
- Impact of therapy or nursing assessments or interventions on outcomes or experience
- Prevention or control of rehabilitation-related conditions
- Patient and caregiver education programming impact or outcomes
- Performance improvement that impacts outcome data
- Case studies or case series studies that reflect the impact to patient outcomes
- Implementation science and knowledge translation research aimed at the study of rehabilitation methods to implement research findings for neurological impairments
Selection process
The applications submitted will be evaluated based on:
- Scientific merit and experience of principal investigator(s)
- Relevance to the grant program objectives
- Expected outcomes and study feasibility
The final selection of the project for funding will be conducted by the Encompass Health Grant Selection Committee and Corporate Clinical Research Committee. Final selection will be complete within 30 days of the final submission deadline or Sept. 30, 2025.
Eligibility criteria
Upon verification of eligibility by Encompass Health, applications will be reviewed and evaluated by the Encompass Health Grant Selection Committee using establish scoring criteria and rubric.
- Grant application and supporting documentation must be submitted by Sept. 30, 2025.
- They must be emailed by Sept. 30, 2025, at 5 p.m. EST to TherapyGrants@encompasshealth.com
- Research proposed must be conducted in the United States or Puerto Rico
- Principal investigators must be based in the United States or Puerto Rico
- A well-defined research protocol is required
- IRB approval is required through entities as defined by the research protocol
- Human subject policies and informed consents obtained from patients must be developed in accordance with CITI requirements
- Encompass Health will not consider organizations that discriminate by race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation or national origin.
- Research is expected to be completed in no more than 12 months after awarding the grant.
Grant application documents