Another One Bites the Dust

Isaac's fourth physical therapist since April (when his original therapist quit) has quit. She lasted all of maybe a month. I am now pulling him from where he is getting therapy and trying to find someplace new to get it from. I am not necessarily upset that everyone keeps quitting, I am mad because the person in charge is TELLING the therapist not to tell parents! She did the same thing when they moved there clinic 15 minutes down the road. Is this not just putting off the inevitable. Obviously, parents are eventually going to have to be told that you will have to drive to a new place for therapy or that your child will not be seeing the same therapist.

Today, I took him in for therapy. The woman in charge of the clinic said hi and asked how I was, and that was it. Then when I went to pick him up his therapist told me what was going on and why she was quitting. The clinic has not had a full time PT in over 5 years, they have all been contract. Someone is not doing their job if there has been an opening that long! So ever since his original therapist left they have changed therapist about every month. The kids are paying too (Isaac is anyway).

According to the reports that the therapist send me annually on his list of goals and the progress he is making in each, Isaac is not improving much in Physical therapy or speech. Overall he is making good progress, but if you look at each individual goal and progress made on those goals it is bad. So we are going to start changing some stuff up to see if we can figure it out. The only common problem with PT and speech is that the staff is not consistent. He has been through many therapist with both. Can they not see how important consistency is with these kids (or any kids!!).

As long as the person in charge does not want parents to know what is going on for fear that she will loose patients (which equals MONEY - which is her obvious concern), then the kids are not going to get the care they need. So she is sinking her own ship (rather fast I might add) while trying not to sink her ship! Hopefully we can find a consistent source of therapy rather quickly!