Rehabilitation Services
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Contact: Joan Pinney, Director of Rehabilitation Services
Phone: 860-823-6317
Email: jpinney@wwbh.org
Location: 111 Salem Turnpike (Backus Outpatient Care Center), Norwich, CT
Mission Statement
The Department of Rehabilitation Services at The William W. Backus Hospital is a dedicated, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of healthcare professionals consisting of Physical, Occupational, Speech therapists and Physiatry who provide customized, coordinated holistic care to patients, their families, and the community to maximize their functional independence and enhance their quality of life. All patients and staff are treated with dignity, respect and kindness. The Department is committed to staff, community and patient education and to sharing our specialized knowledge and skills with patients, families and the medical community.
About our Department
Rehab services is comprised of three therapies - physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech/language pathology; consultation with a psysiatrist (doctor of physical medicine) is also available. The goal of all services is to improve function. Therapies are provided to outpatients and inpatients on referral by their physicians. The primary focus of Backus outpatient therapies is the care of people with complex physical and cognitive disabilities which require multiple therapies. Therapists provide outpatient specialties in would care, lymphedema, hands/arms dysfunction, voice/swallowing dysfunction, pediatric speech, cognitive retraining, prosthetic training, and balance/vestibular disorders.