Many of you know her, many more of you should: This is Tracey Cannon, and she is this month’s Spotlight On Excellence physical therapist.
Tracey has worked for Baker Rehab Group for nearly ten years, honing her skills as the consummate geriatric physical therapist.
Tracey’s primary clinical focus is on treating patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, balance problems, and deconditioning due to hospitalization or illness.
Tracey has been an invaluable part of the Baker Rehab team, overseeing physical therapy assistants and general operations of five assisted living facilities in Frederick and Washington counties. She has been an instrumental leader in staff training and implementation of the BalanceWorks program.
BalanceWorks is a unique fall prevention program offered by BRG that utilizes a variety of standardized tests to assess balance and fall risk in the geriatric population. Based on patient findings, individualized treatment plans and outcome measures are presented both at the initial evaluation and at the completion of the treatment program to demonstrate the response to the skilled interventions provided to the patient. Tracey’s dedication to the program and excellent leadership skills were an integral part of BRG’s first continuing education class provided to our therapists, as Tracey sought and received approval for continuation education credit for all physical therapists in attendance. She expertly delivered nine contact hours of instruction for assessing and treating balance dysfunction.
Because of Tracey’s obvious commitment to excellence, and because of her contagiously positive attitude, Tracey was BRG’s 2011 Sunshine Award recipient. She also managed to find the time- between juggling her fulltime job, two kids, and a sweet husband- to travel to South America on a medical mission trip for a week this fall. We all admire her generosity with her time and talents.
Baker Rehab Group is so proud to have Tracey as part of our leadership team. In her own words, “What I like best about my job is that I get to help people at a point in their lives when it appears on the surface that nothing more can be done. I get to be creative and find ways to improve their situation for added safety and quality of life.”
Well said, Tracey. And thanks again for all you do!
If you’d like more information about our BalanceWorks Program, please send us an email to info@bakerrehabgroup.com.