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The Key to an Effective Physical Therapy Clinic/Rehab Hospital. By: Jenny Morcelo. What a PT stands for. Providing patients with optimal healthcare Guide Patients every step of the way to recovery Helping patients cope with and adjust to new physical impairments .
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The Key to an Effective Physical Therapy Clinic/Rehab Hospital By: Jenny Morcelo
What a PT stands for • Providing patients with optimal healthcare • Guide Patients every step of the way to recovery • Helping patients cope with and adjust to new physical impairments
Ultimate Goal of a PT Clinic &Rehab Hospital • One of our main priorities is to provide SAFE, EFFECTIVE, & FAST care in the best manner possible. • By utilizing the most efficient & reliable software and equipment that promotes just that.
Where do we Start??? NOT Exercise Equipment: • Treadmills • Hand Bikes • Stair Climbers
We need the essential software/equipment to start us off and to keep us going long term.
Appropriate & Most Convenient Treatment Tables Armedica Electric High Low Treatment tables AM-250 with Casters Cost: $1,582.19 each Comes in a Variety of Colors Easy to Obtain on: www.isokineticsinc.com
Purpose: • To serve as a place for seating or laying for patients • Value/Use: • To accommodate patients in accordance to the treatment they are about to receive. • Description: • Strong, Stylish, & affordable • Full-height adjustment and Section mobility so the patient can be placed in the proper position for maximum results with minimum effort • For Patient: Comfort, easy access getting on and off table • Foot switch control • Power assisted option for caster systerm • 400 lb lifting weight capacity • Face/Nose opening
Compared to… • Very Inexpensive BUT • You get what you pay for • No Casters • Looks very Uncomfortable • Not Adjustable • Safety Hazard
Goniometer Baseline HiRes Plastic 360° ISOM (STR)- 6” Cost: $8.62 Easy to Obtain on: www.isokineticsinc.com
Purpose: • To measure the range of motion (in degrees based on angles) of various joints around the body. • Value/Use: • Assist in determining the progress a patient has made in a certain range of motion throughout their care period. • Description: • White Background behind the gradations numbers and text, which assures high contract for accurate readability and resolutions • Scale reads 1° increments • Pros: • Very Inexpensive • Can purchase multiple of them so that all PTs of the clinic could have access to one at all times
Chilling/Heating Units Hot Pack Machine- Model M-4 Heating Unit Cost: $2,057.94 Cold Pac Chilling Unit Model C-5 Cost: $1,946.71 Both Can be easily obtained on: www.isokineticsinc.com
Purpose: • Provide Heat and Cold to medical equipment that requires it. • Use/Value: • Keep Hot packs used for heating therapy hot at all times • Keep cold ice packs at frozen temperature at all times, so that they are ready to use as needed.
Description Heating Unit: • Largest mobile heating unit • Includes and hold 24 standard hot packs • Requires only a 20” x 32” floor space • Durable easy to maintain • Supplied ready for immediate use • Requires no special plumbing • Maximum energy efficiency • Description Chilling Unit: • Large Capacity • Faster Chilling time • No Plumbing/ Just Plug in
Computers Lenovo Thinkpad X220 Tablet Cost: $ 706.06 Can be easily Obtained on: www.Rakuten.com Or www. Levono.com
Purpose: • Equipment meant to facilitates sending/receiving information by accessing the internet, as well as other applications. As well as making it easier for people to carry this information with them anywhere, at any time. • Use/Value: • In a PT office these Computers can facilitate obtaining information for our patients, as well as obtaining information about them rapidly. • Very valuable use for recording/arranging appointment • Recently becoming very much of use for medical records.
Description: • LED convertible tablet and PC • 12.5” 4 GB Ram, 320 GB HDD • Genuine Windows 7 Professional • Considered a business quality Device • Touch Screen, Pen can be used • Easy to obtain Signatures
Electronic Health Records Software MedicsDocAssistant HER Cost: $3,240 per year Can be easily Obtained on: www.adsc.com
Purpose: • Provide healthcare providers with a software in which they can track, store, and share their patient’s medical records • Value/Use: • Having this software would be convenient because a lot of healthcare facilities are switching to HER • Good way to communicate with other Health Practitioners • Keeping track Insurance Payments • A lot more organized
Description: • Flexible User-friendly design • Computer-based provider order Entry • MedicsRx- e-Prescribing • Medics Portal- Connects practice to patient and vice versa • Patients can schedule appointments, questionnaires, and communicate