This pictures is from the March Mountain District Meeting in Abingdon. In photo left to right is Kim Slemp, PT; Lisa Mauch, PT, DPT; Barrett Blevins, PT, DPT.
Delegate David Nutter Leads Discussion on Physical Therapy Program at RUposted: Jun-02-2010
You can read the entire article concerning health care reform and physical therapy with Delegate David Nutter (R-7th) during his recent visit to Radford University!
Thank you UVA-Healthsouth and Rockingham Memorial!
Introductions
Thank you Shenandoah University for providing BRD access/use of WebEx for a year.
Approval of minutes: March 25, 2010: Centra Memorial Hospital, Farmville and Warren Memorial Hospital Rehab Services, Front Royal
Treasurer’s Report: We currently have $2,583.69.
Committee reports: Thank you again to of you who have taken a position. Please consider asking a friend to help out or to fill a vacant committee chair. Any updates?
Continuing Ed – Eric Magrum
Membership – Ed Schrank
PTA SIG – Sarah Schmidt
Conf. Comm.–Ashley Kane
Ways/Means Comm.- open
Nominating – Colleen Whiteford
Legis. Chair – Gayle Garnett
Payer Relations – Colleen Whiteford
Peds SIG – Edie Buchan
PTA SIG – Sarah Schmidt
Research – Andrea Fergus
Student Relations – Doug Rohr
Technology – Dave Brewster
Public Relations – open
Ethics – Doug Rohr
PT-PAC - open
Every district must have a nominating chairperson, however out of the 6 districts, only 3 currently have them. June 1st is the deadline to nominate persons for VPTA positions. VPTA has gone to electronic voting. If you are interested in any of the nominees for any office please let Colleen or Dave or Julia Rice know via email or phone.
Old Business:
Please see prior agendas and minutes
New/ Ongoing Business:
Continuing Education: Eric Magrum
§ Examination and Selected Interventions: Shoulder - July 10-11, 2010. Speaker: George J. Davies, PT, DPT, MED, SCS, ATC, LAT, CSCS
PT-PAC chair is still needed at the District level to work with the State chair, please email Diana Venskus - Diana.venskus@marymount.edu
§ If you have something that you’d like posted, please send it to Dave
VPTA even year elections
§ Vice-president
§ Treasurer
§ Delegate
§ Delegate-elect
§ Representative to the physical therapist assistant caucus
Beb Cash award
§ To recognize physical therapists who have made an outstanding contribution to clinical practice. Any member may nominate another for consideration of this award.
§ To recognize physical therapists who have made an outstanding contribution to clinical practice. Any member may nominate another for consideration of this award.
§ Nominations must be submitted to the Nominating Committee Chair 2 (two) months prior to the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference. This is end of August 2010.
§ The recipient will receive an engraved plaque and a $250 cash award, which will be presented at the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
Emerging leader award
§ To identify and honor one physical therapist or physical therapist assistant as an “emerging leader”, who has demonstrated exceptional service to the chapter at state or district levels early in his or her career.
§ The nominee must: 1. Be an active member of the VPTA for at least 3 years and no more than10 from formal graduation.
2. The nominee must have current or prior service in committees or appointed or elected positions at the district or state level.
§ Nominations must be submitted to the Nominating Committee Chair 2 (two) months prior to the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
§ The recipient will receive an engraved plaque, which will be presented at the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
Scott Sullivan award
§ To recognize those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in their service to the VPTA.
§ The nominee must:1. Be an active member of the VPTA and a district counterpart; 2. Have held elected office, committee chair, or workgroup chair at the State level for a minimum of two years; 3. Been active in either state committees/offices for a minimum of four years; and 4. Not be a member of the Nominating Committee.
§ Nominations must be submitted to the Nominating Committee Chair 2 (two) months prior to the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
§ The recipient will receive an engraved plaque and commemorative bottle of wine, both of which will be presented at the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
7.Information for membership:
oElection of delegates
oCommittee structure this has been discussed before at previous BRD meeting
oAnnual meeting
§ Friday, October 15
§ Employing an Evidence-Based Approach to the Treatment of Patients Following Total Knee Arthroplasty; From the Hospital to Home; Kevin E. Brueilly, PT, PhD, Morey Kolber, PT, PhD, OCS, Cert MDT, CSCS
§ Treating the Knee: An Evidence-Based Approach; Chad Taylor, DPT, SCS, ATC, CSCS
§ Activity-Based Therapies in Pediatric Settings; Karen Good, PT, OCS
§ Student Conclave
§ Saturday/Sunday, October 16/17
§ Evidence based practice in Outpatient Orthopedics: Preparing for Direct Access; James Beazell, PT, DPT, ATC
§ Outpatient CPT/ICD-9 Coding, Billing, and Documentation for Rehabilitation Reimbursement; Rick Gawenda, PT
§ Impact of Vision on Function; Phebe Burgess, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, Dannette Fortney, OTR/L
oVPTA logo see minutes of previous meetings.
oElectronic voting: beginning this year, the VPTA will be using electronic voting for elections for our officers and delegates! More to come on this.
Dates to know:
Next meeting: September 16 (Thursday) - Augusta Medical Center, Fishersville
Co-Host: Shenandoah Memorial Hospital, Woodstock
9.Otheritems?
Discussion of upcoming House of Delegates meeting in June
Adjourn business meeting
Next Meeting: September 16
***Please bring a canned good/non-perishable food
item to be given to an area relief organization***
First, we are thrilled about the new VPTA committee restructuring! Welcome Michele Wiley to the Membership Committee and we’re thankful for Maria Kuran for stepping up and helping the Nominating Committee. Additionally, thanks to all of the Northern District members who attended and participated in the Retreat at Virginia Crossing in April.
We had a terrific meeting on March 16, 2010 hosted generously by Northern Virginia Community College Medical Campus in Springfield, VA. Dr. Derek Ochiai, Associate Master Instructor of Hip Arthroscopy spoke on the Treatment of the Hip’s Acetabular Labrum. The 40 people in attendance including PT/PTA students, clinicians, faculty members, and students to be gave the meeting great reviews. Our next meeting is May 5, 2010 at Marymount University (MU). There will be poster presentations in the hall by MU students prior to the meeting. As a teaser, one of our speakers is Rebecca Schumer, SPT speaking on Lisfranc Injury. She presented at CSM this year. We will also be talking about many other interesting topics such as this year’s RCs. We look forward to seeing you there!
Northern Virginians attended LegislativeDay in full force bringing students, PTAs, and PTs to storm Richmond. We gave special thanks to Sydney Sawyer and ALL 13 of the NVCC students including but not limited to Eddy, Henna, Ryan, Rocio, Sheena, Yvonne, Simone, Wilma, Deirdre, Anne, Marina, Paris, and Angela who attended. In total, Northern Virginia had over 20 PTs, PTAs, and students in attendance. You were truly an integral part of getting Term Protection through the legislature.
We are getting excited about 2010's VPTA Annual Conference October 15-17 in HERNDON, VA. We’ve been planning and spreading the good news about the conference and the 18-hole golf tournament on October 14 at Pleasant Valley Golf Course touting a 4 man captain's choice with shotgun. Please contact Secili DeStefano if you are interested in attending or volunteering.
Hip hip hurray to Sydney Sawyer and Diana Venskus who lead a Northern District collection for suppliesforHaiti. MU PT students collected used/new orthopedic supplies to send to Haiti for support relief efforts. Hanger prosthetics shipped materials (http://www.hanger.com/Pages/HaitiRelief.aspx;).
Northern District also began a process of Strategic Planning that should be completed by our summermeeting on July 11, 2010 including plans for the next 1-5 years. So far we examined the survey that VPTA did including 350 members/respondents, applied it to Northern, presented it to the members in attendance at the meeting, received membership feedback, and are in process of implementing member ideas for how to proceed in the coming years.
Thanks Northern PTs, PTAs, and students for supporting community activities and walks such as the Arthritis Walks in Loudoun County May 16, 2010 and a memorial walk for a Northern VPTA therapist on April 18, 2010. For more information visit http://www.potomacriverrunning.com/http://www.active.com/running/burke-va/rockstar-run-8k-and-1-mile-fun-runwalk-2010 and
Driving through the Mountain District one can’t help but notice the beauty of Spring. Early flowers like daffodils & tulips, flowering trees such as pears and red buds bless us with new colors and hope of things to come.
So it is with our Mountain District Membership as we look to the new committee restructuring of VPTA. Allow me to “Plant some seeds” for you to volunteer. There are several new job openings with small to medium time commitments that have a great IMPACT on how our district grows. Some jobs are brief monthly commitments & others are once yearly events (as follows):
District PT Month Task Force: Assist the District Chair and Director to Coordinate and plan a district & state-wide “Anything that Moves Your Forwards” event October 23rd.
District Legislative Liaisons (Open position for more than one person): Ever hear about health-care reform or Term Protection and have contacted your representative to express an opinion? Do you know any of our State Legislators? Upcoming elections are a great time to contact your legislators and we need more volunteers in this area.
District Continuing Education Chair: Great opportunity to get involved as our current Chair Kim Slemp, PT will mentor you into this position. Help plan with state wide contacts and organize CE events for our district. Upcoming event planed for November “CI Credentialing Course”.
Host a District Meeting: Our 2011 Calendar is starting to fill up. Contact District Chair Wil Kolb, PT, CWS at wkolb12@gmail.com if you would like to sponsor a event.
Reminder also that Mountain District Chair and Treasure positions are up for election this year. Both are two year terms.
Additional meeting plans for 2010 include: May 18th joint Mountain-Valley District meeting at Radford University Featuring Delegate Dave Nutter. September Mountain District meeting at Wytheville Community College being broadcast on the web to three other satellite campus locations. November 2nd meeting will be hosted by Function Better Therapy and Chuck Williams, PT.
Special thanks to Barret Blevins, PT, DPT for hosting our last district meeting at Johnson Memorial Outpatient. A top Quality presentation on Shoulder Surgery and Rehabilitation with open discussion was provided by Orthopedist Dr. Daniel Miliam. (see photo) Additional thanks to Julia Jackson King, Debbie Clark and Greg Cornforth for participation in VPTA annual retreat at Richmond April 16th to 18th. (See picture) See you soon at a Mountain District Event – Time to go water some seeds…..Please enter news article...
From L to R: Greg Cornforth, PT, SCS, CSCS; Debbie Clark, PT, DPT; Julia Jackson King, PT; Wil Kolb, PT, CWS.
VPTA Central District members present poster at 2010 Combined Sections Meetingposted: May-03-2010
Melissa Banta, PT, DPT, Anne Chan, PT, DPT, NCS, Amber Devers, PT, DPT, and Matt Wilks, PT, MSPT were chosen to display their poster presentation titled “Implementation and Compliance with Use of Standardized Outcome Measures in an Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility” at the APTA Combined Sections Meeting in February in San Diego, CA. All four therapists work at Sheltering Arms Physical Rehabilitation Centers and created a program utilizing physical therapy clinical outcome measures other than the FIM. Occupational therapists and speech therapists also participate in tracking outcome measures at both locations of Sheltering Arms Hospital . The research was based on an article published in Physical Therapy by Jette, et al. (2009) which found that therapists in an inpatient rehabilitation facility were less likely than therapists in outpatient or home health settings to use clinical outcome measures.
Tracking these outcome measures required a cultural change for the therapists in this setting. The outcomes tracking program was created to ready the organization for performance initiatives as well to create more clinical research opportunities. Therapists also felt that use of these measures helped improve patients’ understanding of their goals and plan of care. At the end of the study period, almost all PT’s and PTA’s were able to collect at least one outcome measure on each patient, but continued to have less compliance collecting follow-up outcome measures on all patients. Therapists from various settings visiting the poster at CSM either echoed the results presented in the poster or felt motivated to conduct a similar program.
Picture left to right: Matt Wilks, Melissa Banta, Amber Devers
STUDENTS ATTENDING ANNUAL VPTA RETREAT REPORT:posted: Apr-28-2010
Top 10 Things We Learned at VPTA Retreat
1.How much manpower it takes to make this association work
2.How important the organization of the VPTA is at the National APTA level
3.About hot topics in VPTA legislation
4.How to beat Dr. E at HORSE in basketball
5.How approachable experienced VPTA Members can be
6.Where our membership dues actually go
7.About the close connections between PT’s and PTA’s
8.How to get involved with committees and what they do
9.That flip cup is a great way to bond with VTPA members
10. That I have a voice in the VPTA
PTs IN MOTION AT RETREAT- Yes, that is our own Dr. Jack Echternach playing basketball at night with Tom Toothaker, one of the attending students. (See item 4 above to find out who won at this HORSE competition.)
PT AND PTA STUDENTS ATTEND VPTA ANNUAL RETREATposted: Apr-28-2010
Front Left to Right: Maricel Navarro, Chanel Grant, Kerry O’Keefe, Yenwen Kuo, Emily Siazon, Jennifer Feild, Lauren EverettsBack Left to Right: Rhonda Grant, Gabrielle Robertson, Tyfanny Tribble, Rebecca Brown, Justin Dimmit, Jordan Chang, Sarah Martin, Tom Toothaker
VPTA Blue Ridge District Agenda March 25, 2010posted: Mar-25-2010
VPTA Blue Ridge District
Agenda March 25, 2010
Host: Centra Southside Community Hospital, Farmville
Co-Host: Warren Memorial Hospital Rehab, Front Royal
6:30 pm Socializing and gathering, 7 – 8:00 pm Business meeting,
8-9:00 pm Presenter: Rob Maloney: Anodyne therapy
Welcome andSign-in
Thank you Shenandoah University, Centra Southside, and Warren Memorial!
Introductions
Approval of minutes: January 20, 2010: Shenandoah University, Winchester
Treasurer’s Report: We currently have $2,583.69
Committee reports: Thank you again to of you who have taken a position. Please consider asking a friend to help out or to fill a vacant committee chair. Any updates?
Continuing Ed – Eric Magrum
Membership – Ed Schrank
PTA SIG – Sarah Schmidt
Conf. Comm.–Ashley Kane
Ways/Means Comm.- open
Nominating – Colleen Whiteford
Legis. Chair – Gayle Garnett
Payer Relations – Colleen Whiteford
Peds SIG – Edie Buchan
PTA SIG – Sarah Schmidt
Research – Andrea Fergus
Student Relations – Doug Rohr
Technology – Dave Brewster
Public Relations – open
Ethics – open
PT-PAC - open
Old Business:
Please see prior agendas and minutes
New/ Ongoing Business:
Election for Blue Ridge district director position
§ Nominee : Megan Bureau
Continuing Education:
§ Eric Magrum
§ Evidence Based Principles of Musculoskeletal Imaging - April 24-25, 2010.Speaker: Gail D Deyle, PT, DPT, MPT, OCS, FAAOMPT
§ Examination and Selected Interventions: Shoulder - July 10-11, 2010. Speaker: George J. Davies, PT, DPT, MED, SCS, ATC, LAT, CSCS
§ If you have a course please let Sharon Justice know so that she can distribute the information to everyone. sharonj@bcchospital.org
PT-PAC chair is still needed at the District level to work with the State chair, please email Diana Venskus - Diana.venskus@marymount.edu
Member Acknowledgement Program (MAP): Has anyone done something worth recognizing?
§ If you have something that you’d like posted, please send it to Dave
VPTA even year elections
§ Vice-president
§ Treasurer
§ Delegate
§ Delegate-elect
§ Representative to the physical therapist assistant caucus
Beb Cash award
§ To recognize physical therapists who have made an outstanding contribution to clinical practice. Any member may nominate another for consideration of this award.
§ To recognize physical therapists who have made an outstanding contribution to clinical practice. Any member may nominate another for consideration of this award.
§ Nominations must be submitted to the Nominating Committee Chair 2 (two) months prior to the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
§ The recipient will receive an engraved plaque and a $250 cash award, which will be presented at the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
Emerging leader award
§ To identify and honor one physical therapist or physical therapist assistant as an “emerging leader”, who has demonstrated exceptional service to the chapter at state or district levels early in his or her career.
§ The nominee must: 1. Be an active member of the VPTA for at least 3 years and no more than10 from formal graduation.
2. The nominee must have current or prior service in committees or appointed or elected positions at the district or state level.
§ Nominations must be submitted to the Nominating Committee Chair 2 (two) months prior to the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
§ The recipient will receive an engraved plaque, which will be presented at the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
Scott Sullivan award
§ To recognize those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in their service to the VPTA.
§ The nominee must:1. Be an active member of the VPTA and a district counterpart; 2. Have held elected office, committee chair, or workgroup chair at the State level for a minimum of two years; 3. Been active in either state committees/offices for a minimum of four years; and 4. Not be a member of the Nominating Committee.
§ Nominations must be submitted to the Nominating Committee Chair 2 (two) months prior to the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
§ The recipient will receive an engraved plaque and commemorative bottle of wine, both of which will be presented at the VPTA Annual Chapter Conference.
7.Information for membership:
oOverview of January BOD meeting
oStudent conclave
oElection of delegates
oCommittee structure
oAnnual meeting
§ Friday, October 15
§ Employing an Evidence-Based Approach to the Treatment of Patients Following Total Knee Arthroplasty; From the Hospital to Home; Kevin E. Brueilly, PT, PhD, Morey Kolber, PT, PhD, OCS, Cert MDT, CSCS
§ Treating the Knee: An Evidence-Based Approach; Chad Taylor, DPT, SCS, ATC, CSCS
§ Activity-Based Therapies in Pediatric Settings; Karen Good, PT, OCS
§ Saturday/Sunday, October 16/17
§ Evidence based practice in Outpatient Orthopedics: Preparing for Direct Access; James Beazell, PT, DPT, ATC
§ Outpatient CPT/ICD-9 Coding, Billing, and Documentation for Rehabilitation Reimbursement; Rick Gawenda, PT
§ Impact of Vision on Function; Phebe Burgess, MS, OTR/L, SCLV, Dannette Fortney, OTR/L
oVPTA logo
oElectronic voting
Dates to know:
April 16-18: Annual Retreat - Richmond, Virginia Crossroads
April 24-25: Evidence Based Principles of Musculoskeletal Imaging
April 30: second annual Virginia Insurance Forum, Richmond
May 18: next BRD meeting UVA-Healthsouth, Charlottesville and Rockingham
Memorial Hospital, Harrisonburg
Otheritems?
Adjourn business meeting
Next Meeting: May 18
***Please bring a canned good/non-perishable food
item to be given to an area relief organization***
PHYSICAL THERAPY and PHYSIOTHERAPY are now protected terms!!! posted: Mar-15-2010
Governor McDonnell signed our Term Protection legislation into law!
Effective July 1 2010 only institutions/companies that have PT/PTA’s performing Physical Therapy or Physiotherapy may advertise it.
This means that if the health services are provided by a non PT/PTA, those services can not be advertised as Physical Therapy or Physiotherapy. This is a huge step forward for the profession as we now not only have title protection, but also term protection!
The board in conjunction with the legislative committee will be developing appropriate actions for potential violations.
Please note that the law goes into effect July 1, 2010 and does not apply to any advertising done retroactively from Dec 31,2009 or before.
A huge thank you to the 450+ members of the Term Protection coalition and everyone that gave input, contacted your legislator, and assisted with this momentous project. This could not have been accomplished with out your help.
