Tag: physical therapists
APTA motion aims to change prescription process
May 24, 2013Elizabeth Deprey
SALT LAKE CITY - Would having a physical therapist (PT) prescribe HME speed up a patient's discharge from the hospital? Lori Pearlmutter thinks so.“We make the decision on what the patient needs and then we have to wait for the physician—maybe a hospitalist whose shift has ended or a doctor who gets called into surgery,” said Pearlmutter, director of therapy and cardiac rehab at Flagstaff Medical Center in Flagstaff, Ariz.That wait time can keep patients in the hospital for...
