"We don't have VIP here," Gerard Francisco, the rehabilitation center's chief medical officer, said after providing a tour to reporters Thursday.
Giffords (D-Ariz.) will get "a standard room-a hospital bed, a bathroom. It's very Spartan," Francisco said. "We don't plan to treat her any differently than we treat someone with a similar injury. It's business as usual. It's the rehabilitation program that we would provide anyone with this type of impairment."
That program will be the start of a long road back to health for Giffords, who has been at the Tucson University Medical Center since being shot in the face in the Jan. 8 rampage that left six dead and injured 13.
She is scheduled to fly by airplane from Tucson to Houston's William Hobby Airport at about 2:15 p.m. EST, then travel by helicopter to TIRR.
Giffords (D-Ariz.) will get "a standard room-a hospital bed, a bathroom. It's very Spartan," Francisco said. "We don't plan to treat her any differently than we treat someone with a similar injury. It's business as usual. It's the rehabilitation program that we would provide anyone with this type of impairment."
That program will be the start of a long road back to health for Giffords, who has been at the Tucson University Medical Center since being shot in the face in the Jan. 8 rampage that left six dead and injured 13.
She is scheduled to fly by airplane from Tucson to Houston's William Hobby Airport at about 2:15 p.m. EST, then travel by helicopter to TIRR.
