Physical Therapist Assitant
St. Margaret Mercy Health, Community Healthcare System
May 2000 - Jun 2003 (3 years 2 months)
• I worked at Community Healthcare Systems (which is a 3-facility system) on their Acute Rehab units. My job is to work with the physical, occupational, and speech therapy teams in treating patients according to the treatment plan set up by the evaluating therapist. Patients are seen twice a day for 45-minute sessions and sometimes includes co-treatment with the other two disciplines. Treatment included (but was not limited to): gait, transfer, and functional mobility training, balance training, neuro re-education, strengthening and stretching exercises, community re-education program, family training, home evaluations and pulsed lavage wound care. I participated in daily patient report sessions with many different physicians at all 3 faci