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Meet our team at Granite Creek in beautiful Prescott, AZ!  Prescott is nestled in the Northern Arizona foothills and offers a huge array of outdoor recreation opportunities along with the charm of a historic mid-sized town with reasonable cost of living and average temperatures at least 20 degrees cooler than Phoenix!  The therapy team at Granite Creek takes full advantage of their surroundings – they hike together, kayak together, play pickleball together and enjoy happy hour together at outstanding restaurants like El Gato and Farm Provisions.  Larissa Osio, our amazing rehab director at Granite Creek describes her team as one with longevity that supports  each other like family.  She is looking forward to continuing the growth of their outpatient and inpatient services to have an even greater impact on the community.  Granite Creek partners with the hospital in Prescott to accept patients who are difficult to place in other facilities – and our clinicians love seeing them progress to the point where they can return to their home or assisted living after years in long term care.  Larissa supports the local community through teaching weekly exercise class at one of the local Independent Living Facilities to teach seniors how to use the equipment in their gym.  This team also embraces new grad therapists.  Larissa pairs a new grad therapist with an experienced therapist on her team and makes sure she has a weekly check in to ensure that the new grad is getting the support they need to be successful and progress in their therapy career.  She also provides leadership training opportunity to her team and currently has one of her therapists in our DORITO (Director of Rehab in Training Opportunity) program so they will be ready to step into the next leadership role that comes available. 

Intrigued? Granite Creek is currently offering amazing career opportunities for an Occupational Therapist Assistant, Speech Therapist, and a Physical Therapist. Find out more about these amazing opportunities and browse our complete list of therapy job opportunities.

Mike Cons has been the DOR at Lake Pleasant Post-Acute Care  for the past two and half years and was an Occupational Therapist at the facility prior to that.  He was motivated to move into the leadership role by his colleague’s dedication and drive to provide the best patient care and by their willingness to go to any lengths to help their patients achieve their goals. 

Lake Pleasant offers skilled therapy, long term care therapy and outpatient therapy.  The are currently in communication with several local ILF/ALF’s to offer mobile outpatient services.  The interdisciplinary team at Lake Pleasant is special.  Each person on that team brings a wealth of knowledge and experience and their ability to collaborate and problem solve to provide the best patient experience is second to none.  The therapy team at Lake Pleasant not only works well together – they regularly get together outside of work to celebrate work accomplishments as well as personal and family milestones.   

Lake Pleasant is also a training ground for future therapy leaders in our organization.  Mike has has several therapists go through our DORITO program and one has recently been promoted to DOR in another facility. One of Mike’s most meaningful patient experiences recently involved a long term care resident. The team as a whole is very proud of their long term care programming and how much it has helped the Lake Pleasant residents.  Mikes says that because of his talented and dedicated team, many of the long term care residents have rehabilitated to the point where they no longer need to be in a SNF and have returned to the community.  He recently had a military veteran transfer to Lake Pleasant from another facility.  He had been in a long term care setting for three years and voiced his desire to live on his own.  Our therapy team worked tirelessly with this resident and after about six months, he was able to discharge to an assisted living facility and has been successful in his new, more independent setting.   

Lake Pleasant is located in Northwest Peoria, AZ and is surrounded by new, charming master planned communities with tree lined parks, walking trails and Lake Pleasant Regional Park which offers boating, fishing and hiking in the beautiful Sonoran Desert.  If this sounds appealing, we currently have openings for a full time Physical Therapist and full time Occupational Therapy Assistant on our team!

Intrigued? Lake Pleasant is currently offering amazing career opportunities for an Occupational Therapist Assistant and a Physical Therapist. Find out more about these amazing opportunities and browse our complete list of therapy job opportunities.

Meet Melissa Ricciardelli, our amazing new rehab director at Coronado Healthcare in Phoenix, AZ.  She has been part of the Ensign family for four years and was recently promoted into this leadership role.  Melissa’s passion is truly improving the quality of life for every patient she comes in contact with.  Her goal for Coronado is to have multiple LTC programs where each patient is engaged in meaningful activities every day and as independently as possible.  She loves teaching, developing and empowering the leaders on her team – Melissa has a passion for empowering the members of her therapy team to be extraordinary therapists and leaders by guiding and teaching them..  The most meaningful exchange Melissa has had with a patient in the last six months was simply chatting with a patient and his family about how much progress he had made – and having him show her what he could now do.  Melissa was gratified not only by his physical improvement but by how much his mental health had come from being very sad and depressed to on this day, having a huge smile on his face because he felt like he could do everything he needed to do on his own.  When she is not building something great at Coronado, you can find Melissa spending time with her husband and kids, camping and hanging out with friends. 

Intrigued? Coronado Healthcare is currently offering amazing career opportunities for an Occupational Therapist Assistant, an Occupational Therapist, and a Physical Therapist Assistant. Find out more about these amazing opportunities and browse our complete list of therapy job opportunities.

What if….you could work in a therapy environment free from corporate red tape with colleagues you respect and trust?  What if…your employer believed in developing its own leaders and helping their clinicians continue to learn and grow in their careers?  What if…you could do all of this in a beautiful natural setting where you were surrounded by a myriad of outdoor recreation options like mountain biking, hiking, snow sports, and world class white water rafting?  If this sounds too good to be true, it’s not!  Discovery Rehabilitation & Living in beautiful Salmon, Idaho offers all of these things along with an affordable cost of living.  On top of that, they are offering a $10,000.00 signing bonus  to therapists who are drawn to the road less traveled.  Salmon is located in the mountains of central Idaho and though small, the community offers fine dining, art galleries and events, as well as easy access to the largest protected wilderness area in the continental United States. 

Intrigued? We are currently offering amazing career opportunities for a physical therapist and occupational therapist at Discovery. Find out more about these amazing opportunities and browse our complete list of therapy job opportunities.