Cheryl Kauffman, PT, BCPA

If they have all those constraints, I would tell them that for safety reasons, I’ll be bringing another person with me. Hopefully that’s an option for you. If you need to pay that person, let the client know that the expense will be invoiced to them.

Seems like a good idea. I’ll be interested to hear what others think. The only thing I’ll say is that my clients’ needs really fluctuate, so sometimes I feel overwhelmed and sometimes I’ve got almost nothing to do. I typically have 10-12 clients.

Mine is an addendum to the contract with the Guarantor signs. All else is the same, as AnnMarie mentioned above. No disclosure w/o client permission of course. Let everyone know all that in the discovery phase.

Kathy, I just reread your original post. This person is essentially quadriplegic? Acute rehab should have had a strong focus on wheelchair prescription and patient/family education for how to care for him at home. Did that happen? Is his support system strong enough to care for him at home? Did he also suffer a brain injury? That can really…[Read more]

Hi Kathy,

I used to work in acute rehab. When I was in that field, 7.5 weeks would have been a pretty typical LOS. From what I hear now, stays are much, much shorter so I’m pleased your client got that much time. Did he plateau in his progress? Generally admission to acute rehab requires that the patient has a solid plan for discharge HOME (not…[Read more]

I have my E+O insur through Hiscox.
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Hi Katy, what area are you in?

I’m very interested to learn from others who have encountered this. I have some clients who might be headed in this direction.

I thought of a few more tasks:
8. Refund money as needed.
9. File taxes.
10. Cancel insurance.
11. Put an auto respond on the email account.
12. Change outgoing voice mail message

Bonnie, I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. That sounds like such a difficult situation for everyone involved.

Here’s what I’ve got so far, with specific pointers in the document I’ll leave with my important papers.

1. Notify clients.
2. Notify local advocates.
3. Notify subcontractors.
4. Notify the directories.
5. Edit/delete website as…[Read more]

Rebecca, I looked it up yesterday. $1068 for the first year for one user. A little less after that because there’s a $200 start fee. That’s assuming that what I found was current.

Not really. He has VA and Medicare and is struggling to navigate them and get things covered. I believe that Nicole Broadhurst has reached out to him.

PT here. It’s also vitally important that therapists write very customized goals. Sure, we like to write simple goals about decreasing assistance required and increased activity tolerance (can walk 300′ now vs 50′ when they arrived), but there are so many other goals as well:
–can the person learn to direct their care?
–family training
–safe…[Read more]

I’ve been looking at portable locking file boxes but so many of the reviews say the locks are worthless, so I was hoping someone might have a rec.

Yesterday I received an email that included a course eval, but I don’t know that that’s going to lead to CEs.