Rehab Education Benefits All
Infinity Rehab makes rehab education a priority and supports a wide-variety of venues for our partners, residents and our staff. For instance, we conduct monthly onsite health education seminars for residents of rehab programs that we manage or consult with. We bring quality lifelong learning opportunities to our staff of professionals, as well as the therapy community at large. Additionally, many of our rehab locations serve as student clinical affiliation rehab education sites. Finally, our Infinity Rehab team gets invited to speak at many health education opportunities and fairs on a regional and national basis.
Rehabilitation Education and Training
Our training programs educate the community and about therapeutic and wellness needs; they educate customers on ways to increase census and improve care; and they educate therapists on how to broaden their scope of practice for the betterment of their patients. We also conduct ongoing staff webinars on the latest news, research and regulations in the industry.
Health Education Seminars
We offer monthly health education seminars for residents at partners sites. These are especially valuable for campus settings because of the screening that occurs and referrals received during the health education seminars.
Value-Added Services
We offer partner facilities monthly informative seminars that feature ways to improve operations, reimbursement, and improved efficiencies. A sampling of topics include:
- Restorative training
- Restorative management
- Prospective payment systems
- MDS 3.0
- Functional Independence Measures (FIMS)
- Bariatric programming
- Parkinson's specialization
- 10 Steps to targeted marketing
- When can therapy help
- Contracture management
- Falls prevention training
- Pain management in the elderly
- Dementia management
- Wound care
- Dining independence
Clinical Rehabilitation Education
Annually, Infinity Rehab provides, or sponsors, more than 30 continuing education courses for the professional development and acquired medical skills of therapists. Our recent, February 2011 Symposium attracted more than 400 attendees from around the country. Topics for this event and others include:
- Rehab advances in Parkinson's disease
- Speech and swallowing intervention with the trash and vent dependent patient
- Individualized wheelchair assessments
- Tapping into the potential of the brain post stroke
- Lymphedema treatment considerations
- Allen cognitive levels
- Urinary incontinence in the geriatric population
- Functional balance assessment and treatment considerations
- Pusher syndrome
- Pulmonary considerations with swallowing assessment
- Lower extremity bracing
- Strengthening your therapy without weakening your budget
- The geriatric shoulder
- Wheelchair seating and positioning
- Documentation and functional assessment
- Working with the client with dementia
- Pharmacology for the rehab professional
- Vestibular rehab
- Pain management training
- Dysphagia education
- Augmentative communication
Additionally, Infinity Rehab provides a generous continuing education fund to our staff of professionals and encourages student therapists to apply for our scholarship programs.
