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Shannon Gray

Thank you for considering the GrayBrier for your inpatient therapy needs. Let me assure you our therapy department consistently strives to meet and surpass all of your expectations for patient rehabilitation and recovery. It is our desire to maximize the quality of life for our short-term and long-term residents by maximizing outcomes and functional capabilities. Every resident who can benefit from appropriate therapy will be given our attention and the opportunity to maximize functional potentials. GrayBrier inpatient therapy professionals take a holistic approach to all patient needs. We specialize in tailoring treatments to a wide variety of diagnosis and individuals. We look forward to offering the support and care needed to provide optimal independence to all your clientele. 

                                           

Upon admission to the GrayBrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, our team of professionals will assess each resident’s needs, and develop an appropriate plan of care to ensure that each resident functions at the highest possible level.  To assist with patients’ needs and physician orders the GrayBrier provides three types of therapy.

 

Physical Therapy

Our physical therapy professionals assist residents with:

 

· Mobility:  Increasing the ability to ambulate and/or use wheelchair propulsion; improving skills to enable residents to achieve maximum independence.

· Balance:  Improving resident’s balance to enhance safety of transfers and/or ambulation activities.

· Positioning:  Assessing lower extremity needs for orthotic devices to prevent contractures or improve mobility; wheelchair positioning for restraint reduction.

· Lower Extremity Function:  Improving resident’s range of motion, increasing strength through progressive resistance exercises or muscle re-education.  

 

Occupational Therapy

Our occupational therapy professionals assist residents with:

 

· Activities of Daily Living:  Increasing residents’ independence in self-feeding, dressing, bathing, and hygiene by learning new or compensatory techniques with or without adaptive equipment.  

· Functional Transfers:  Improving transfer skills from wheelchair, walker, or cane level to toilet, bed, tub, and shower.

· Upper Extremity Function:  Improving resident’s active range of motion, dexterity and coordination; muscle re-education for partial paralysis.

 

Speech Pathology

Our speech language pathology professionals assist residents with:

 

· Speech/Voice:  Improving residents’ slurred speech, hoarseness and nasality.

· Language:  Improving residents’ abilities to understand others and express themselves verbally, in writing, and gesturing.

· Hearing:  Improving residents’ abilities to adapt to a hearing loss and better understand others.

· Cognitive Linguistics:  Improving cognitive skills to reduce confusion and disorientation; improving impaired problem solving and reasoning skills.

· Swallowing:  Improving residents’ abilities to swallow and minimize choking; assist with poor tongue and lip movement and refusal to eat.

Katie Irene Pruitt, MPT, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2003 with a BS in Exercise and Sports Science with a concentration in Sports Medicine and received a Masters' Degree of Physical Therapy in 2005 from the Winston-Salem University. Her clinical expertise involves geriatric and adult population with neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary and musculoskeletal disorders with 6 years experience in a skilled nursing setting. She is married with a 2 year old son and a Boston Terrier. Working as a physical therapist is very rewarding and she states that "she loves to see the progressions, enabling and rehabilitation of her patients.”

Monique Nicholson is our Therapy Program Manager. She is a 2005 graduate of North Carolina A & T University with a BA in Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology. She received her Masters of Science Degree from Buffalo State College. She has been with the GrayBrier team since February 2009. Monique enjoys working with and developing relationships with all the residents and watching their progress. Monique lives in Greensboro with her husband and dog. If you have any questions about your loved ones progress, please don't hesitate to contact a member of our rehab team.

Paul Effinger  graduated  from Cabbarus College of Health Science with a degree in Occupational Therapy in the fall of 2009. He has been with the GrayBrier since October 2009. His favorite part of the job is building and keeping relationships with the residents he treats each day.

Mark Hardin is a 2008 graduate of the Guilford County Technical College Physical Therapist Assistant Program. He has been with the GrayBrier since February 2009. He enjoys helping patients improve their  health while maximizing  their day to day functions. He is most proud of the team approach at the GrayBrier of putting patient wellness first and foremost.

Hannah Smith is a Physical Therapy Assistant. She graduated in 2009 from Guilford Technical Community College. She has been with us at the GrayBrier since January 2010. She loves helping residents achieve goals that never thought they could. Per Hannah, "I see our residents as part of my life, not my job."

Monty Shields, PTA joined the GrayBrier in May 2011. He has been working primarily in geriatric rehab since graduating from Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte in 1994. He has continuing education credentials in neurodevelopmental training, geriatric strength training and vestibular hypofunction. 

Anderson Seraphin is our Occupational Therapist. He graduated in 2003 from SUNY @ Stony Brook in Long Island, NY. Anderson has been a part of the rehab team since October 2010. His goal is to provide the best quality care for each resident by striving to be the best at what he does everyday.

Corrine Mfune is a 2001 graduate from the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College in Ashland Wisconsin's Occupational Therapy Assistant Program. Prior to joining the GrayBrier Rehab Team she spent the past 10 years working with Special Needs children. Corrine says she is very impressed with the support she receives from the whole team and the focus that they put on providing the best possible care to the residents. She adds that "we are all very blessed to be working with this population and gaining knowledge from them as well as hearing their wonderful stories".