Welcome to National Rehabilitation Awareness Week. Thank you for all you do to make MRC Mississippi's Rehab & Research Hospital! Your dedication and compassion for serving our patients sets us apart. Enjoy all the things we have planned for this week. Here is a quick look at the schedule.
Click on the heading above and follow the links to our video schedule.
Congratulations to Kayla Embry, a therapist on our SCI/Ortho unit. She is the winner of our app download giveaway!
The online application for the new Nurse Retention Loan Repayment program opens Friday, August 4, 2023. Early career nurses may apply online at www.msfinancialaid.org/NULR/.
Patients and health care advocates unite to meet unique challenges of minorities with multiple sclerosis
Methodist Rehabilitation Center recently welcomed Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith to the hospital. She had substantive discussions with our management and board on the challenges facing delivering quality rehabilitation healthcare in Mississippi. Pictured with the senator are (L to R) David McMillin, Methodist Rehab CEO, Matt Holleman, Methodist Rehab board member, and Mike Sturdivant, Methodist Rehab board treasurer.
Terry hunter adjusts to prosthetic leg after foot is crushed in tree stand fall
Benton farmer overcomes brain bleed with help from Methodist Rehab’s Quest program
Amy DeGrado’s Benton farm is home to piglets, dogs, cats, goats, cows, ducks, bees, chickens and rabbits. It’s her happy place, and she enjoys the work it takes to tend to her animals.
“That’s my me time,” DeGrado said.
In January, a milking mishap interrupted her peaceful farm work. DeGrado bent to check a cow’s udder, which accidentally spooked her. A kick to DeGrado’s head caused a massive hemorrhage in her brain.
Therapy helps Brandon man reduce fall risks related to movement disorder
As the executive director for International Outreach Ministries, Michael McCarty of Brandon helps support 101 missionaries in 22 countries around the world.
The job comes with plenty of travel, and McCarty has to routinely fly across continents.
But navigating a room full of people made him nervous.
“I had balance issues which made me prone to fall (or think I was falling) easily,” he said. A tumble after waking up disoriented and wobbly one night even left him with a dislocated rotator cuff in his left shoulder.