Fredrick Truitt

• Responsible for maintaining scheduling that coincides with patient and interdisciplinary medical professionals, maintaining professional licenses to practice, liability insurance requirements for self-employment, an in-depth knowledge of insurance, multiple documentation systems, and on-call availability were the primary roles.
• Customize evaluations and develop appropriate treatment plans and achieve optimal level of recovery.
• Educated rehabilitation staffing on innovative methods to improve patient caseload as well as generate revenue.
• Acquired modality training to improve care quality as well as provided supervised guidance for other disciplines.
• Identify and create documentation queries to physicians, residents, and mid-level interdisciplinary staff.
• Performed evaluations and assessments to recommend best treatment for individual patients.
• Meticulously reviewed records and referrals to determine and implement best treatment methods.

• Identified and maximized sales opportunities, and increased customer retention rates
• Identified appropriate clients for necessary and appropriate skilled services.
• Improved health outcomes.
• Settled any customer disputes in a professional and pleasant manner
• Provided conflict resolutions strategies for clients, therapist, and staff members.
• Managed time sensitive and confidential information.
• Customized individual treatment plans based on medical history/recommendations.

• Demonstrates an understanding of complications, co-morbidities, severity of illness, risk of mortality, case mix, secondary diagnosis, and impact of procedures; and communicate knowledge to physicians, residents, mid-levels, nurses and other health team members.

• Performed duties in accordance with applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment.

• Inputting confidential client information using software and electronic medical recording to accurately provide documentation to an interdisciplinary medical team for effective communication and increase recovery potential.
• Assess appropriate adaptive equipment necessities, provide education on utilization with the skills to return demonstration of effectiveness and the degree of safety with durable medical equipment
• Assess environmental safety barriers to reduce the risks of injuries.
• Communicates with physicians’ face to face or virtually to clarify information, obtain needed documentation and educate for appropriate illness and risk of mortality.
• Assess environmental safety barriers to reduce the risks of injuries.
• Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
• Coordinated interventions with multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Determined best treatment plans to meet objectives for school, work and home life.

• Managing sensitive and classified documentation.
• Assisted patients with activities of daily living (ADL) and functional mobility to increase comfort and quality of life.
• Evaluating, screening, and developing individualized treatment plans
• Responsible for communicating weekly with multiple medical and non medical professionals.
• Consistently meet productivity standards.
• Created orthotics/splints, provided upper extremities and cervical positioning medical equipment.
• Facilitated home exercise programs, simulated home safety evaluations to promote independence and safety return to prior living environment.
• Provided direct occupational therapy services in clinical inpatient and outpatient settings.

• Update daily billing and coding.
• Assess patient appropriateness with evidence based practices for skilled interventions employment hiring.
• Assess patient appropriateness with evidence based practices for skilled interventions.
• Create patient specific treatment plans.
• Provide training and material assistance to ensure safe and healthy work practices.
• Monitors compliance with OSHA standards
• Designed therapy programs for post-surgical patients and documented progress along the way.
• Recommended, modified, and administered evidence-based practices for short-term and long-term goals.
• Recommended, modified, and administered evidence based practices.
• Settled any customer disputes in a professional and pleasant manner.
• Performed duties in accordance with applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment.

• Update daily billing and coding
• Conveyed updates for CMS, patient care coordination, scheduled client visits, and new employment hiring
• Assess patient appropriateness with evidence based practices for skilled interventions
• Create patient specific treatment plans
• Provide training and material assistance to ensure safe and healthy work practices
• Monitors compliance with OSHA standards.

• Evaluate patients with complex neurological, surgical, trauma/orthopedic, medical and cardiopulmonary diagnoses in an A1 acute care trauma facility.
• Managed and treat patient in the Burn Center for patients ranging from infants to adults.
• Scheduled patient caseload to improve frequency and ability to participate in skilled interventions.
• Increase revenue and productivity standards by greater than 80%.
• Provided patient, family, and caregiver training to assist with range-of-motion exercises, safe transfers and mobility, and strategies to improve skin integrity.
• Created customized splinting and skin barriers for contractures and burns for inpatient and outpatient clients.
• Fabricated or provided assistive devices and protective orthoses.
• Assist patients in organizing their daily activities to maximize performance, including self-care, home management, leisure, and community and social participation.
• Teach stress management, pain reductions, breathing techniques and coping skills.
• Address the needs of clients in behavioral or mental health units who also have physical impairments.
• Develop protocols for and facilitate therapy groups to address goal setting, community re-entry strategies, sleep hygiene, self care skills, body image issues, and basic to advanced.
• ADLs/IADLs such as money and medication management.
• Conducted physical, academic, vocational, mental and other types of evaluations to identify clients' needs and devise rehabilitation plans.

• Examine and evaluate patients, developing effective treatment plans appropriate for patient condition.
• Measure patient progress, provided standardized testing, implement evidence based practices, and modify treatment plans and educated the patient to produce optimal outcomes.
• Demonstrate continuous knowledge of hospital based rehabilitation services, participate in facility in-services and educational forums to improve reimbursement, revenue, outcomes, and reduce medical errors.
• Performed duties in accordance with applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines to promote safe working environment.

• Performed respected duties outlined within the scope of practice and evidence based practices
• Implemented weekly meetings, quarterly meetings, and family or caregiving conferences
• Adapted to multiple settings including: SNF, Long Term Acute
• Care (LTAC), Acute Care, Outpatient, Home Health, and Burn Clinic
• Affiliations include: BridgePoint Medical Facility, Thomas Circle
• Skilled Nursing Facility, Hadley (Washington, DC); Brinton Woods Nursing Facilities in DuPont Circle Southeast Campus (Washington, DC); Friend's House Assistive and Independent Living Facility, Washington, DC); Deanwood Nursing Facility, Washington, DC); and Professional Home Healthcare Resources (Bowie, Maryland).