Help rebuild lives.
Join QLI in providing life-changing rehabilitation and care for individuals with brain and spinal cord injuries.
Tragedy Can Strike Anyone
Everything can change in an instant. Brain and spinal cord injuries interrupt lives and defer dreams. Team QLI is here to pick up the pieces and help injured individuals and their families get back on a meaningful path in life.
How You Can Help
It’s as simple as this: Your support allows us to give our clients and their families the best possible odds by offering state-of-the-art technology and complex, individualized programming. Together, we are not just helping clients and families recover. We are helping rediscover passions and re-establish identities.
Unrivaled
Unrivaled rehabilitation expertise.
Relentless
Relentlessly inspired team.
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Our Stories
The people we serve are just like you – employees, parents, students. A lightning bolt, a mosquito bite, a car accident, or a fall. Within seconds and without warning they were forced to begin fighting to rebuild the life they once lived. Take a moment to read their stories and see how your support can make an impact.
Clay Patterson | A Renewed Voice
November 10, 2025
Sending a text. Most of us do it several times a day. Double-checking a meeting time, making sure the groceries got picked up. Passing along a funny meme. It’s lost […]
Kylee Mueller | Never a Plateau
October 17, 2025
It’s July 2024. The balloons and streamers are getting cleared, and Kylee Mueller is headed back home, at long last, to Wayne, Nebraska. The goodbyes and well-wishes are the perfect […]
Bandna Bhatti | Rally
September 25, 2025
The day is hot, almost unbearable, yet the exercises continue. Twenty-two-year-old Bandna Bhatti positions the sports wheelchair to accommodate the rallies headed her way. Some are close-ups, while others are […]
Jason Jensen | Skating Forward
September 17, 2025
They try to capture some action shots. QLI client Jason Jensen positions his ice skates just so, hoping that the ice will align on the edge of the skates, passing […]
Nash Mahupete and QLI’s Culture of Growth
September 5, 2025
Leaders aren’t born—they’re made. Spend a day with Nash Mahupete and you’ll quickly see what leadership in action looks like. From meetings to late-night shifts, quality time spent with residential […]
Dylan Wescott | Growing the Competition
August 26, 2025
The trophy can go to anyone. Every other Sunday, QLI clients gather for the chance to claim it. For some, it’s their first attempt at playing the sport. The exact […]
Alicia Townsend | The Confident Voice
July 10, 2025
The cloudy atmosphere above the crowd gathered in front of QLI’s Colladay Center does little to dampen the attitude and anticipation. All around stand clients and team members, decked out […]
Ashley LaCourse | Nonstop Milestones
June 5, 2025
Jon LaCourse remembers the call. In the middle of a week in late August 2024. He was away from their home in Fargo, North Dakota, on a business trip in […]
Rico Martinez | Being Somebody
June 4, 2025
He’s got a story to tell, and he knows it. For Christian “Rico” Martinez, the future is now as clear as it ever has been—he will use his story to […]
Andrea Fossum | A Place to Thrive
May 15, 2025
It is April 2025. The iPad unlocks. With a darting hand, Andrea Fossum pulls up Facebook, and a few more taps get her to her friend Jennifer Cady’s page. She […]
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