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EHI Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs) Have Been Recognized
In The Top 10% of 805 Inpatient Rehabilitations Facilities In The
United States, Cited For Care That Is Effective, Efficient, Timely
and Patient-Centered. click
here to learn more
• Rehabilitation
Hospital of Southern New Mexico (RHSNM) click
here to learn more
• South
Texas Rehabilitation Hospital (STRH) click
here to learn more
• Northern Colorado Rehabilitation Hospital (NCRH) click
here to learn more
• Mountain
Valley Regional Rehabilitation Hospital (MVRRH) click
here to learn more
• Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital
(GRRH) click
here to learn more
• Elkhorn Valley Rehabilitation Hospital (EVRH) click
here to learn more
8.10.10 – Ernest Health Sending Clinical Team to Haiti to Assist with Disaster Relief
Ernest Health
has partnered with Healing Hands for Haiti to send a team of nurses and therapists
to work with earthquake survivors who sustained life changing injuries in January’s
earthquake. Our team of 32 volunteers will provide care and rehabilitation services
including education, use of adaptive equipment, manufacture and use of prosthetic
limbs in order to help individuals achieve and sustain maximum function. Clinicians
will spend two weeks in September working in a variety of patient care settings such
as outpatient therapy clinics, inpatient hospitals, and orphanages for disabled children.
Healing Hands for Haiti supports and encourages the Haitian people in providing quality
physical rehabilitation services for themselves in a spirit of self-determination,
independence and human dignity with a focus on empowering Haitians with disabilities.
For more information on Healing Hands for Haiti, go to www.healinghandsforhaiti.org.
May Is Stroke Awareness Month
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Patrick
McGehee listened intently to an interview on TV about a woman
discussing her recovery from stroke. At the time, he didn’t
know his body would soon be experiencing something so similar. “I
remember sitting there watching her on Oprah and I was amazed
by all that she went through and just a few months later I
had my stroke. I just couldn’t believe it happened to
me.”
The woman featured in that interview was Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor.
A Harvard trained and published neuroanatomist and professor,
Dr. Taylor suffered a brain hemorrhage
in 1996. With her background, she was all too familiar with what was happening
to her at that time. For the next eight years, she worked hard to recover from
the effects of her stroke and went on to author the New York Times bestselling
book – “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal
Journey”, detailing her experience. She was also selected as one of TIME
Magazine’s Most Influential People in the World for 2008 and was a premiere
guest on Oprah’s Soul Series webcast and a special guest on the Oprah
Show in October 2008.
McGehee will
soon meet Dr. Taylor in person where she will be the featured speaker.
Click
here to learn more
04.15.10
- Northern Colorado Rehabilitation
Hospital Educates Community on Their Right to Choose
Northern
Colorado Rehabilitation Hospital (NCRH) has launched a media campaign
to educate the community on their right to choose a rehabilitation
provider. You have a choice to choose NCRH for rehabilitative care
by passionate patient caregivers.
The campaign rolled out in Johnstown, Loveland,
Ft. Collins, Greeley and Longmont with a focus
on public relations and advertising via newspaper,
Internet, TV
and geographically targeted radio. The campaign, which targets patients requiring
specialized rehabilitative care, features the tagline "You Have a Choice.”
As the only freestanding acute rehabilitation hospital serving northern Colorado,
Northern Colorado Rehabilitation Hospital's (NCRH) state-of-the-art facility
specializes in the care of patients with stroke, trauma, spinal cord injury,
head injury and other disabling impairments. For the fourth consecutive year,
Northern Colorado Rehabilitation Hospital has been ranked in the Top 10% of 805
inpatient rehabilitation facilities by the UDSMR. Northern Colorado Rehabilitation
Hospital was cited for care that is effective, efficient, timely and patient-centered.
The campaign will run through June 2010.
Click Here To Listen to NCRH Radio Spot
As Heard on KUAD 99.1 “K99 - Colorado’s Best Country” and KOA-AM,
850 News Radio
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4.1.10 – A
devoted staff of ‘angels’
The Advanced Care Hospital providing quality patient care
By Natisha Hales, The Las Cruces Bulletin
Though
the medical facility is just in its second year of serving
the region, the Advanced Care Hospital of Southern New Mexico
already has hundreds of success stories to share. Serving patients
in the area who suffer from injuries that require long-term,
round-the-clock acute care for an average of 25 days, the medical
facility is quickly gaining a reputation for quality care – and
its patients are providing the testimony to support it.
A rare occasion
He was told that he wouldn’t survive, but
67-year-old Las Crucen Wayne Wagner has lived to tell his
story.
Click here to learn more.
3.18.10
GRRH celebrates Brain Injury Month
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Brain Injury Support Group |
Greenwood
Regional Rehabilitation Hospital hosted a dinner for the
Brain Injury Support Group on March 18, 2010. This is a newly
formed support group which meets the third Thursday of each
month. The Brain Matters group is designed for individuals
who have sustained a brain injury. The brain injury individuals
and their families are encouraged to attend the meetings
for discussion, encouragement, support, information and friendship.
Pertinent information and topics are presented at these meetings. Tina Paysinger,
DPT, Director of Therapy Operations at Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital
is scheduled to speak at Brain Matters regarding the use of Bioness, and Neuro
IFRAH techniques for improving the functional status after injury. The public
is invited to attend.
The next meeting is scheduled for April 15, 2010 at 6 p.m. The Brain Injury
Support Group meets at the Burton Center located at 2605 Hwy 72/221E, Greenwood,
South Carolina. For more information, please contact Kristy Lawson at 942-7124,
or email klawson@burtoncenter.org.
3.1.10
Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation
Hospital Trained Neuro IFRAH Therapists
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Laurie
Pettit and Scott Gams with a GRRH patient
using Neuro IFRAH to initiate first time movement
in a hemiplegic arm |
Greg
Farmer, OTR, MS, and Laurie Pettit, PT, both employees of
Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital (GRRH), recently
received their certification in the Neuro IFRAH approach
for the handling of adults with hemiplegic from a stroke
or brain injury. The Neuro IFRAH approach is a philosophy
of handling patients to facilitate normal movement in the
patient’s affected limbs and send feedback to their
central nervous system on how to restore that movement in
functional activities. Excess tone is inhibited and proper
muscle alignment and handling allows for the normal movement
to begin.
This approach integrates bodies of knowledge from all therapy disciplines,
treats all systems of the person, and incorporates the variables of the patient’s
past, their roles, their environment, and their current abilities. GRRH fully
expects the Neuro IFRAH approach to be a valuable asset because of the benefits
it brings to the neuro population.
For more information, please call (864) 330-1800, or visit our hospital at
1530 Parkway, Greenwood, South Carolina.
2.20.10
- Mountain
Valley Teams Up with Salvation
Army!
Jen
Roel, Chief Executive Officer
In
February, MVRRH teamed up
with the Salvation Army to
raise money for the Haitian
Earthquake Relief effort.
I am pleased to announce
that staff and visitors have
donated a total of $1,050.68
with the hospital matching
the money with a check to
the Salvation Army in the
amount of $1,100.00. Major
Kyle Trimmer stopped by the
hospital and requested a
photo of MVRRH staff which
will be placed in an upcoming
issue of The Salvation Army’s
newsletter with a brief article
about our employees and MVRRH’s
generosity. Thank you!
2.20.10
- MVRRH
- Prescott Valley Teen On
the Mend After Miracle Recovery
by
Doug Cook, The Daily Courier
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Physical
Therapist Patty Akovenko
works with David Miller
on his coordination
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Pathologist Annette Guidry works with
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In
the seconds before everything faded to black, David Miller knew
he was on a collision course. And although he avoided it, it's
what happened next that forever changed this once reserved Prescott
Valley teen's life.
About a month ago, on the way back from a movie the night of January 15 in PV,
he was driving east through Dewey-Humboldt on Highway 69 toward Mayer with his
girlfriend and a male acquaintance when he swerved to avoid hitting a dining
room chair standing mysteriously in the fast lane.
Click
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learn
more.
2.05.10
"Race for the Children" 5k
Race Scheduled for March
Stacie
Smith, Coordinator for the Guardian ad Litem program of Greenwood
and Abbeville counties, announced that its
foundation, A Voice for the Children Foundation, will sponsor
an inaugural 5 Kilometer “Race for the Children” on
Saturday, March 6 at the Greenwood YMCA, 1760 Calhoun Road.
The race, to benefit children in foster care in the two counties,
begins at 8:00 A. M., and is sponsored by the Greenwood Regional
Rehabilitation Hospital. Smith credits Richenda Brown with
the
idea for organizing the race.
"Richenda has taken a great deal of interest in our program since learning
about foster care kids. She understands that, in order for these children to
have a more normal life, funding provided by the state must be supplemented,” said
Smith.
The Greenwood Rehab Hospital gave a donation of $1,000 and is the primary sponsor
for the event. They have a forty six bed acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital.
GRRH provides the recovery of individuals who have functional deficits resulting
from injury or illness, as well as those with chronic or complex medical conditions.
"We like to give back to the community,” said Sharon Martin, Director
of Marketing and Business Development for the Greenwood Rehab Hospital. “We
have employees that are part of seven different counties so we like to participate
in community events.”
The race features events for entrants 14 and under, all the way to 70 and over.
Each category includes runners in five-year age spans. Awards will be given to
the overall top male and female runners, as well as the top male and top female
runner in each age group. The course is an asphalt road, mostly flat. The regular
entry fee of $20 includes a t-shirt for each runner. A late registration fee
of $25 will be collected after February 28; t-shirts are not guaranteed for late
registrations.
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I hope everyone who loves running will turn out, take part, and have fun, knowing
they are helping needy children, too,” Brown smiled. “Everyone
is welcome---walkers, as well as runners--and we’ll all lace up and
go, rain or shine!”
Runners may register by going online at www.active.com/running/greenwood-sc/race-for-the-children-2010and
completing registration electronically or printout the registration form from
the www.childvoice.weebly.com,
complete it, and send it with check made out to A Voice for the Children 5K.
Mail it to Richenda Brown at P. O. Box 1454, Greenwood, SC 29648.
01.29.2010
Laredo Donates Money to Haiti
By: Francisco Diaz, Laredo Sun
A little more than three thousand dollars were donated by local organizations
yesterday for earthquake victims in Haiti.
"We are very pleased with the response from the community in providing assistance
to thousands of people who require our assistance in Haiti, we invite people
to continue helping", Mayor Raul Salinas said.
Yesterday, the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Laredo Specialty Hospital,
American Red Cross and the Salvation Army gave a donation of 3 thousand 350 dollars.
"This will directly help the victims of this tragedy, and hopefully they
will receive more support from laredoanses", the mayor mentioned. People
who wish to contribute voluntarily to this worthy cause can go to any branch
of the International Bank of Commerce for their contributions.
The account number for any further donations is 211-696-781 and donations are
tax deductible. The money raised in various activities such as the concert by
the Laredo Philharmonic Orchestra was released to the American Red Cross, the
Doctors Without Borders and Habitat for Humanity organization.
1.22.2010
A
Good Year for Health Care in Southern New Mexico
Area medical facilities focus on high-quality care
By
Natisha Hales, Las Cruces Bulletin, 2010 Legislative Guide
It has been an interesting year for almost every industry throughout the United
States, especially health care. Controversy has swirled around health care reform
and the recession, leaving much uncertainty in the field.
But one thing’s for sure in the Mesilla Valley – Las Cruces remains
the health care hub for southern New Mexico, and each of its facilities have
maintained quality care for Las Cruces and its surrounding areas. This year,
despite budgetary shortfalls and new regulations, some medical centers have been
able to expand to meet their goals of quality patient care. Click
here to read full article.
12.04.09
The South Carolina Committee
for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Select Greenwood
Regional Rehabilitation Hospital to receive the “Above
and Beyond Award”
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Pictured
left to right: Mr. John Green Chair,
SC ESGR Committee, Laura Granger, James Rebholz,
National Chairman, ESGR. |
Staff
Sergeant Mathew C. Scruggs, a registered nurse at Greenwood
Regional Rehabilitation Hospital (GRRH), nominated GRRH. Sergeant
Scruggs is currently on active duty and stationed in Iraq.
This award recognizes those employers at the state and local
level who have gone above and beyond the legal requirements
for granting leave and providing support for military duty
by their Guard and Reserve employees. The award is given to
only a select few out of thousands of employers throughout
the state and is presented annually by the South Carolina Committee
for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR).
Laura Granger, Director of Human Resources at Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation
Hospital, attended the 2010 Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve annual
awards banquet on Friday, December 4th, in Myrtle Beach to accept the award
on behalf of Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital. This annual event
recognized fifteen employers.
11.26.09 - For
her, this Thanksgiving is special: Constance Parrish
has recaptured her life following Lewiston motorcycle
wreck that put her into a coma
Brad W. Gary, The Lewiston Morning Tribune, Idaho
On
this Thanksgiving morning, Constance (Coni) Parrish is grateful
to the rescuers. Critically
injured in a motorcycle accident 15 months ago, Parrish spent seven
weeks in a coma before beginning a road to recovery that will continue
through this holiday season.
"I want to thank everybody; I'm so thankful for my life," said Parrish,
who joyously credits physical therapy for helping her walk again.
Parrish, 38, suffered a head injury and broke her jaw in 13 places Aug. 7, 2008,
after the front tire of the motorcycle she was riding struck the back tire of
another on Lewiston's 11th Avenue.
Nobody could tell how she would recover during the ensuing weeks at St. Joseph
Regional Medical Center, her husband Kelly Parrish said. She couldn't walk when
she awoke, and still doesn't remember much about the accident. She does remember
months of being envious of the nurses and doctors walking by her room at St.
Luke's Rehabilitation Institute in Spokane.
Click here to learn more.
11.19.09 - Durable Medical Equipment: Getting the Right Device
Finding the right mobility device requires thinking carefully,
using experts, and, sometimes, taking political action.
by Amy Meisner-Threet, MSW
Elizabeth Bullard, OTR, has worked with hundreds of patients,
including many who have lost mobility due to multiple
sclerosis (MS) She has seen many patients injured unnecessarily. “Mobility
loss is a major and significant treatment challenge for thousands
of people of people living with MS,” states Bullard
an occupation therapist (OT) and Director of Case Management
Northern
Colorado Rehabilitation Hospital in Johnstown, Colorado.
A 2008 Harris Interactive survey of more than 1,000 MS
patients found that 37% were embarrassed to use a mobility
device,
36% said they didn’t use mobility devices as often
as they should. The findings were troubling in light
of the numbers
of people with MS who experience mobility problems: 64%
of respondents
reported that they had lost their balance, 54% that they
had trouble walking, 35% that they were unable to walk,
13% stating
that they only walked about twice a week.
Safety Checklist
To address these problems, Bullard has developed a safety guide
checklist for people to use before working with their specialists
to choose a suitable mobility devices:
Click
here to read full article.
11.06.09
Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation
Hospital’s Donation Ensures No Child Will Be Empty-Handed
This Holiday Season
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season of joy, warmth, sparkling lights, laughter and family
is upon us. This year, with an increase in economic depression,
there are many families who would not be celebrating without
the help from others. At Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation
Hospital, we recognize and respond to the community needs.
Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital is one of fourteen
hospitals owned by Ernest Health. Ernest Health has a charitable
intent to support the Salvation Army in the markets where
it has an operational presence. The Company is named in honor
of Major Ernest Robert Toplis, who spent his lifetime helping
those in need as an officer in the Salvation Army.
On November 6, 2009, Major Dieter Zimmerer accepted a donation of $2,130 from
Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital and Ernest Health. Major Zimmerer
estimated the Salvation Army will be providing clothing and toys for fifteen
hundred children in our area. He stated the need will be approximately five
thousand items.Some of the angels on the Angel Trees do not get chosen and
the funds donated will help supplement gifts so no child will have to be empty
handed. Major Zimmerer stressed thatSalvation Army needs the support of the
community, and together we can provide a good
Christmas for the children of our community. Click
here to learn more.
10.29.09
Patient Utilizes Bioness® Therapy
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At
86 years old, Mrs. Edith Baldridge had been living alone
and was independent. On October 5 she suffered a stroke that
affected her right upper and lower extremities. Upon arrival
at Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital four days later,
Mrs. Baldridge required two people to lift and transfer her
from her bed to a chair. She could not close her hand or
grasp an object. She was unable to ambulate.
Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital, known for its state-of-the-art
facility, utilized the advanced Bioness® NESS H200 and NESS L300 devices
to provide functional and therapeutic benefits to aid in Mrs. Baldridge’s
therapy. Click
here to learn more.
10.23.09
Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation
Hospital (GRRH) celebrated National Rehabilitation Week, September
21 through September 25.
The week is designed to promote the value of rehabilitation;
to highlight the capabilities of people with disabilities;
to salute the professionals who provide
service to people with disabilities; and to show the nation’s commitment
to fulfill the unmet needs of people with disabilities.
Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital is the only in-patient rehabilitation
hospital in the Lakelands region, which offers rehabilitation services for
patients who suffered functional deficits as the result of injury or illness. “Since
our opening in October 2007, we have helped countless patients regain independence
and a renewed sense of self-sufficiency,” said Tim Kagle, Chief Executive
Officer. Click
here to learn more.
10.23.09
Halo Patient Continues Independence
One Year Later
 
Ms. Burnett, a 68 year old widowed female who lives alone, was diagnosed with
a C-2 fracture in August 2008 as a result of an auto accident. Ms. Burnett had
a halo, weighing approximately 25 pounds, which caused balance issues as well
as anxiety.
When admitted to Greenwood Regional Rehabilitation Hospital (GRRH), she was dependent
and needed assistance for eating, transfers and walking. Additionally, she required
maximal assistance for dressing. In the acute hospital, both friends and case
management thought a nursing home setting would be the most appropriate, but
she chose GRRH and was prepared to work hard at her goal to return home. Click
here to learn more.
10.6.09
- Teen, family fight mysterious
illness with humor
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Jessie
Jerke, 19, left, of La Salle works to pick up a playing
card with her physical therapist, Katie Castleberry,
on Thursday afternoon at Northern Colorado Rehabilitation
Hospital in Loveland. Jerke suffers from an undiagnosed
illness that affects her speech and motor skills and
is making her eyes cross. The therapy is to help keep
her muscles active.
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"My
mind is pretty sharp but this body is on loan."
That's the kind of thoughtful statement you would expect from Jessie Jerke,
before her ability to express it was robbed from her by an unknown thief.
Because of that illness, unless you spent an hour or two with Jessie, 19, you
might not see that girl. Her parents, Bill and Jeannie, still see her, and
her friends still see her, and her boyfriend, Matt Kniss, a senior at University
High, sees her, which is why he stays by her side when many others may have
already left.
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