How to manage therapy during an active COVID outbreak, along with answers to the common question, “If we don’t feel comfortable with ‘business as usual’ nor do we want to completely shut down, how do we manage to treat our residents and keep them safe?“

You have known hundreds of patients just like Glenda Jimmo. Elderly, diabetic, multiple comorbidities. But this Vermont senior and mother of four will be forever known in history as the one who fought against the federal government, at the age of 76, and won. Ms. Jimmo was the lead plaintiff in a 2011 class-action lawsuit seeking to broaden Medicare’s criteria for covering physical therapy and other care delivered by skilled professionals. In this article, learn why patients do not always have to show progress in order to qualify for skilled therapy, even though many of us in the rehab world had it ingrained in our brains that patients need to demonstrate progress in order to qualify for Medicare coverage.

Whether your patient is actually in isolation, or just confined to their room during the COVID-19 pandemic or any cold/flu epidemic, therapists are often limited to treating patients bedside in their room. Learn more about the two best tools you have and how to use them to creatively engage and treat isolated patients.