Commonwealth Health Employees, Professor Present Research Study

12/17/2018

SCRANTON, Pa. (Dec. 17, 2018) – Two Commonwealth Health employees joined with a local university professor to co-author a research study.

Heidi Bockelkamp, PT, DPT, market director of rehabilitation services at Regional Hospital of Scranton and Moses Taylor, along with Dana Maida, PT, DPT, Regional Hospital staff therapist, worked with Barbara Wagner, PT, DPT, MHA, professor emerita University of Scranton, on the study. Dana also is a University of Scranton faculty specialist and assistant director of clinical education.

The abstract of the study, "Determining AM-PAC ‘6-Clicks’ Functional Assessment Cutoff Scores to Predict Discharge Destination in Patients Following Total Joint Replacement," has been accepted for presentation at the American Physical Therapy Association 2019 Combined Sections Meeting in the acute care section to be held Jan. 23-26 in Washington, D.C.

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