In recognition of April as Occupational Therapy Month, Catawba Valley Medical
Center (CVMC) occupational therapy professionals are offering education
sessions on the methods they use to help ill or injured patients regain
skill and flexibility to return to everyday activities. Joining CVMC’s
staff members at the sessions will be occupational therapy students from
Lenoir-Rhyne University.
The public is invited to attend any of the sessions scheduled in April
at CVMC’s Health First Center in Valley Hills Mall. Session dates
are Tuesdays, April 13 and April 20 and Thursdays, April 15 and April
22 from 1 to 5 p.m., and Saturday, April 17 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
“Occupational Therapists can help reduce their patient’s physical
limitations by improving muscle strength, desensitizing painful areas
and enhancing behavioral and cognitive skills,” said Ava Jarrett,
CVMC administrator of rehabilitation services. “Through occupational
therapy, patients improve self-care abilities and acquire skills to regain
or maintain maximum function and ability to return to the activities of
daily living.”
CVMC’s occupational therapy services include day-to-day skills enhancement,
visual perception, stroke recovery, cognitive retraining and patient and
family education. To learn more about CVMC’s Occupational Therapy
services, contact Ms. Jarrett at 828/326-2137.
Catawba Valley Medical Center is a not-for-profit, public healthcare system
in Hickory, providing and promoting the physical, mental, emotional and
spiritual well-being of the public in addition to serving as a center
for health education, wellness services, preventative medicine and acute
care. CVMC, three times recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing
Center as a Magnet facility, was recently named as a “Distinguished
Hospital for An Outstanding InPatient Experience” by J.D. Power
and Associates as well as a Hospital of Choice by the American Alliance
of Healthcare Providers.