Founded by clinicians and researchers who've spent their careers on the other side of recovery: in hospital rooms, ICUs, rehab clinics, and the homes where recovery gaps show up.
Patients survived the hardest part, left weaker, went home without a plan. We built FunctionalHealth to fill that gap.
years at the bedside
clinical faculty
Evidence-based recovery programs, nutrition guidance, and functional rehabilitation resources built by physicians who saw firsthand what patients needed after leaving the hospital.
Our physicians and clinical scientists across ICU, PM&R, and nutrition, in their own words.
MD, MPH, MBA · Medical Director of Critical Care Services and Professor of Medicine
University of California, Irvine
Recovery doesn't end when a patient leaves the ICU. The most important window for rebuilding muscle, restoring energy, and getting back to independence happens after discharge. We built FunctionalHealth to fill a gap medicine has ignored.View profile
MD · Chairman, Pulmonary Medicine, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center; Co-Director ICU, Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center.
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center; Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center
A patient can leave the hospital with the pneumonia treated and still be too weak to climb their own stairs. The weeks right after discharge are when we either help them rebuild that strength or watch it slip away. That work belongs in every recovery plan, not just for the few who reach a rehab program.View profile
MD · NeuroIntensivist. Chair, Department of Medicine
Long Beach Medical Center
Most patients underestimate how long recovery takes. The weakness, the brain fog, the exhaustion lasts far longer than anyone expects. Recovery isn't just leaving the hospital. It demands the same focus we give to the sickest patients in the ICU, continued long after discharge.View profile
DO · Board-certified physiatrist. Medical Director, MemorialCare Rehabilitation Institute
MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center
In rehab we measure a person's independence the day they arrive and the day they leave. What happens between those two dates shapes the rest of their life. Giving patients a clear, doable way to keep that progress going once they are home is some of the most valuable work in medicine.View profile
DO · PM&R Chief Resident
UC Irvine School of Medicine
The patients I care for most are older adults rebuilding after a stroke, a fall, or a major surgery. Their bodies need more support to recover, not less. Closing the gap between what the research shows and what actually reaches them at home is exactly the work I want to do.View profile
PharmD, FCSHP · Assistant Dean for Experiential Education and Associate Professor
Western University of Health Sciences, College of Pharmacy
Most people come home from the hospital with a bag of new medicines and no clear way to keep them straight. By the next visit, half of what they were told is already gone. One simple, up-to-date medication list, brought to every appointment, prevents more problems than most people realize. That is recovery work too.View profile
BS · Co-Founder & CEO of FunctionalHealth. Medical Student
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The future of medicine isn't only treating illness; it's helping the patient get back to themselves.View profile
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