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THANK YOU BAYTOWN!
"BEST PHYSICAL THERAPY"
BAY AREA REHABILITATION CENTER CAN HELP YOU LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE
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Our Mission
“The Mission of Bay Area Rehabilitation Center is to provide outpatient therapeutic, vocational, social skill training and recreational services for persons with disabilities or injuries and support services for their families."
Bay Area Rehabilitation Center
Update on Aquatics Exercise Program Bay Area Rehabilitation Center has operated an Aquatics Exercise program for many years, with many of you receiving the benefits of warm water exercise. As happened with many other businesses, when the coronavirus hit, that program was closed. Since then we have all learned a lot about how this virus operates, the associated risks, and methods on how we might be able to operate while the virus is still in the community. Our aquatics program, however, is unique in that it operates within an ongoing healthcare facility. In that context, we maintain a fairly rigid set of guidelines for our therapy clients that, for at least the current timeframe, we cannot change, and those guidelines impact how we may, or may not, re-open the exercise program. Combined with that concern is the recent increase in daily infections as well as hospitalizations in this area which has caused additional healthcare limits to be implemented at the County level. Finally, although there are well-documented benefits to a program such as this, the reality is that most, if not all, of our clients who participate in the exercise program tend to fall into those categories that tend to have the highest risk of health impact from the virus. We cannot in good conscience open up this program until we are fully assured that the virus risk to our clients is as minimal as possible, if not eliminated entirely.
Because of these concerns, for the immediate future our Aquatics Exercise program will remain closed. As we begin to see improvements in the overall instances of the virus we will further evaluate this decision. Our goal is that once we can ensure the well-being of those involved in the program, both clients and staff, we will re-open. When we have a reliable date for that to occur we will be in touch with all of you. Mark A Alexander Executive Director |
Hello and welcome to Bay Area Rehabilitation Center. I am the Executive Director and would like to share with you a little information about this organization that I hope will inform and educate you about what we do and who we serve. Within this website you can find more detail about each program I mention.
Bay Area Rehabilitation Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was originally formed in 1948 by a small group of parents with a common interest and concern—the lack of affordable and local care for their children, all of whom had cerebral palsy. Since that early beginning over seventy years ago, we have evolved from the Baytown Spastic Association to the Baytown Society for Crippled Children and then in 1979 we formally became Bay Area Rehabilitation Center (Bay Area). As has our name, Bay Area the organization has also evolved over the years. Starting as just a center to assist with cerebral palsy, we expanded to provide medically based rehabilitation services (physical, occupational and speech) to any child who needed that type of service, regardless of the family’s insurance status or overall ability to pay. In the mid-90’s we further expanded by introducing Adult therapy services using the same guidelines as our pediatric program. Soon after and still within the Adult program, we began to serve some of our local business and industries, through providing physical pre-work screening for select jobs, return to work testing and conditioning for those injured on the job, as well as therapy for those with job related injuries. In 2007, the former Baytown Opportunity Center, an independent and local non-profit agency, was brought into the folds of Bay Area as major program. Within the Opportunity Center Program we assist adults, who typically have mild to severe mental disabilities, learn how to better adapt and live in the world around them. Lastly, in late 2019 we opened our Autism program. An expansion of, and working in conjunction with, our traditional Outpatient Adult and Pediatric programs, the Autism program works with those individuals diagnosed on the autism spectrum. The mission of Bay Area Rehabilitation Center is to provide outpatient therapeutic, vocational, social skill training and recreational services for persons with disabilities or injuries and support services for their families. The Center also seeks to advocate for and work to provide accessible and affordable housing for this population. Within those guidelines, we have a number of licensed physical, occupational and speech therapists as well as trained staff who work together to provide the best services possible to those clients in need. In order to meet the needs of all clients, even those with limited finances, we reinvest operational revenues back into the organization to support our financial aid program. We utilize contributions from the local and surrounding communities and have had the good fortune to receive funding from the United Way of Greater Baytown Area and Chambers County as well as United Way of Greater Houston, all with the objective of ensuring that no person who has a true need for our services will be forced to go without needed services. We provide services in these different areas: Pediatric Outpatient therapy, Adult Outpatient therapy, Autism Services, the Opportunity Center program as well as Aquatic Exercise, which is performed in our 25 meter heated therapy pool. Lastly, but certainly not least, we provide service to children who are newborn and up to age three in our Early Childhood Intervention, ECI, program. In our ECI program we provide services primarily in the home of the child, whereas all other services are provided at our 5313 Decker Dr, Baytown, TX address. Most of you will never have a need to take advantages of what we do, and for that reason you should consider yourself fortunate. For those of you who may have a need, great or small, my hope is you remember Bay Area Rehabilitation Center. For anyone interested, we welcome all visitors Monday thru Friday between 7 am and 6 pm. Thank you for visiting Bay Area Rehabilitation Center and when needed, we hope you let us help you Live Your Best Life! Mark A Alexander Executive Director |
Bay Area Rehabilitation Center Employees Receive Longevity Awards
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CURTIS BARLOW, JR.
25 YEARS Opportunity Center Program Specialist |
MARK ALEXANDER
20 YEARS Executive Director |
JENNY GOULD
20 YEARS Early Childhood Intervention Program (ECI) Dietician |
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KIM FREDERICK-BROWN
10 YEARS Opportunity Center Program Director |
CHASEY REED-BOSTON
10 YEARS Earl Childhood Intervention Program (ECI) Director Director of Compliance and Outreach |
MARIA GARZA
5 YEARS Early Childhood Intervention Program (ECI) Specialist |
BILL JUCH
5 YEARS Outpatient Therapy Program Occupational Therapist |
Support Bay Area Rehabilitation Center
The focus of Bay Area Rehabilitation Center is to assist you to live your best life. Since 1948, the Center has done this by making disabilities become possibilities through our Outpatient Therapy Program which provides occupational, physical, and speech therapy services. The Center provided services exclusively to children with disabilities until 1995 when we began providing these services to adults as well. The quality of our outpatient therapy services have been recognized numerous times as we were named by the readers of The Baytown Sun as the 2016, 2019, and 2020 Reader's Choice Award winner for Best Physical Therapy!
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Outstanding outpatient therapy care is only a part of what we do to improve the lives of those that depend on our services. Other services provides by Bay Area Rehabilitation Center include:
- Aquatics Exercise Program
- Comprehensive Autism Program
- Opportunity Center Program
- Patsy's Destiny Wheelchair Accessible Playground
Your financial support of our programs can assist individuals depending on our programs to live their best life. Click on the underlined links to learn more about each of these programs and how your contributions benefit those who depend on our services. To make a secure contribution via credit card, and to learn other ways you can assist Bay Area Rehabilitation Center, click on our Donate Page link. Your support can assist Bay Area Rehabilitation Center in helping others live their best life!
