In our final episode of season 4, we look ahead to 2025 and beyond, with AMRPA’s policy team. Our guests are Kate Beller, President of Government Relations and Policy, Troy Hillman, Director of Quality and Health Policy, and Joe Nahra, Director of Government Relations and Regulatory Policy. Read more about AMRPA's Policy Priorities on our website. This episode is hosted by Patricia Sullivan, AMRPA Director of Content & Marketing.

Meet AMRPA's first Chief Clinical Officer, Dr Karl Sandin. In this episode, Dr. Sandin talks about the how’s and why’s of this new role. Our other guest is AMRPA President Kate Beller. Hosted by Patricia Sullivan, AMRPA director of communications. Email Dr. Sandin at [email protected]. https://amrpa.org/podcast/

Each October, the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) celebrates National Physical Therapy Month. In this episode, AMRPA Board Chair Chris Lee talks his career, which started in physical therapy, the importance of physical therapy in inpatient medical rehab, and how his training in PT impacts his work both as the vice president and chief operating officer of Madonna Hospitals and with AMRPA. We also talk with Derek Stepp, Senior Director in the APTA’s certification department about the value of physical therapy specializations and certifications.  

You can learn more about APTA’s Certifications at https://specialization.apta.org/  

Learn more about inpatient medical rehab at www.amrpa.org.  

National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, Sept. 16-22, 2024, is an initiative started by the National Rehabilitation Awareness Foundation and held during the third full week in September of every year. In this episode, we talk about what it is, why AMRPA is involved, and how you can participate as well. Our guest is Adam Robertson, senior marketing manager for AMRPA. Hosted by Patricia Sullivan, Director of Communications for AMRPA.  

You can learn more about NRAW and download the toolkit at https://amrpa.org/Advocacy-News/National-Rehabilitation-Awareness-Week.  

Our fourth season kicks off with a discussion and update on the Review Choice Demonstration or RCD as it expands into Pennsylvania in June. Our guests are Dr. Alberto Esquenazi, Chief Medical Officer at MossRehab in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, and a member of the AMRPA Board of Directors; Andrew Baird, Senior Vice President of Public Policy, Legislation, and Regulations at Encompass Health and co-chair of AMRPA’s RCD Workgroup; and Joe Nahra, AMRPA Director of Government Relations and Regulatory Policy.  This episode is hosted Kate Beller, AMRPA President of Government Relations. 

Recorded at the 2023 AMRPA Fall Conference and Expo, we present a panel discussion looking ahead ‎at the future of inpatient medical rehabilitation featuring Kate Beller, JD, EVP for Policy Development and Government Relations, AMRPA; Anthony Cuzzola, Vice President, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute; Troy Hillman, Director of Quality and Health Policy, AMRPA; and Joe Nahra, Director of Government Relations and Regulatory Policy, AMRPA. 

Meet Wayne Moorehead, the Patient Perspective Speaker at the 2023 AMRPA Fall Educational Conference and Expo. Wayne is joined by two members of his care team at TIRR Memorial Hermann, Kristin Reeves, PT, MS, Physical Therapist, and Vinay Vanodia, MD, Director, Limb Loss program, Amputee Rehabilitation and Prosthetics and Orthotics, TIRR Memorial Hermann Hospital.

Meaningful Data in Medical Rehabilitation: The Value of eRehabData for AMRPA’s Advocacy Efforts is a panel discussion featuring Sam Fleming, from Fleming AOD, Chris Lee, from Madonna Rehab Hospitals, Joyal Pavey from Mary Free Bed Advisory Group, Shaun McNelis from Select Medical, and AMRPA’s Kate Beller and Troy Hillman. Recorded at the AMRPA Fall Educational Conference & Expo. 

In this episode we're talking about the AMRPA Medical Rehabilitation Managment Certification -- or MRMC. We talk with two of the team that created and manages the program, and two people who earned their MRMC in 2021, Scott Littig, MBA, MRMC, MA, CCC/SLP, and Renee Lomax, MSN-Admin, BSN, RN, CRN-C10, MRMC. And certificants  Misty A. Brady, PT, DPT, MRMC, and Belinda Lemcool, MSN, RN, CRRN, MRMC. Learn more about earning your MRMC at www.amrpa.org/certification. Hosted by Patricia Sullivan, AMRPA Director of Communications. 

CMS’ Review Choice Demonstration will begin impacting inpatient medical rehab hospitals and units in Alabama summer 2023. We discuss possible implications for patients, including possible access to care issues. This episode is intended to be educational as we approach the start of the program. Additional information was released while we were recording. And we'll address that, and other updates, in future episodes as the RCD moves forward.  

Our guests are Anthony Cuzzola, chair of the AMRPA Board, and Joe Nahra, AMRPA’s Director of Government Relations and Regulatory Policy.  Hosts: Dr. Robert Krug, past chair of the AMRPA Board of Directors, and Kate Beller, Executive Vice President for Policy Development and Government Relations.