The Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital Scholarship

Criteria: ($5,000 award— up to 3 awarded annually) The Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital Scholarships are available to seniors in good academic standing in the Department of Nursing. Scholarship recipients must sign a letter of agreement that they are willing to work one year at Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital following graduation. Preference will be given to applicants entering their senior year, those who intend or have completed a preceptorship at Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital, or are current or former employees of Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital. Application should be accompanied by a brief typed essay indicating the student’s interest in rehabilitation nursing.

Since its establishment in 1987 as the first physical rehabilitation hospital in central Massachusetts, Fairlawn has enjoyed a reputation as the area’s premier provider of physical rehabilitation services. As a “neighbor” of Worcester State University on May Street, Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital offers convenient accessibility and a challenging and interesting experience for graduating nurses.

Because rehabilitation is Fairlawn’s sole focus, nurses dedicate all their skills and knowledge to a single goal — improving each patient’s functional abilities through intensive, individualized therapeutic services. Helping patients to attain that goal is enhanced by Fairlawn’s longstanding partnerships with all of central Massachusetts’ major healthcare facilities. Through these partnerships, Fairlawn has an extensive staff of onsite physicians with unmatched expertise in their medical specialties.

Fairlawn itself is a partnership of two outstanding healthcare organizations — UMass Memorial Health Care, the area’s predominant teaching hospital, and HEALTHSOUTH Corporation, the nation’s largest provider of physical rehabilitation services. Through this unique collaboration, their patients and their families receive the expert rehabilitative care they need to resume productive, fulfilling lives.