The Wesley Community Unveils in-house Nursing Home and Sub-Acute Rehab Therapy Team

The Wesley Community, a 37-acre senior living campus with more than 700 residents in Saratoga Springs, is enhancing the rehabilitation and therapy services offered at the Wesley Health Care Center as part of its ongoing commitment to deliver the highest quality of care to senior residents. 

The new in-house Nursing Home and Sub-Acute Rehabilitation Therapy Team, assembled and led by Linnea Heffner, includes more than 30 highly skilled therapists in various disciplines who are fully integrated into the Wesley Community working alongside nursing and medical staff. They specialize in physical, occupational, and speech therapy. 

“By bringing therapy services directly under our roof – rather than partnering with an outside provider – we can offer greater consistency, coordination and continuity of care,” said Wesley Health Care Center Administrator Marc Walker. “Wesley is focused on providing personalized and responsive rehab therapies to our seniors. As we implement these enhancements, we are confident relationships between residents and caregivers will grow stronger.”

The new in-house therapy team, now available six days a week, is additionally skilled at providing education and training on fall risks and gait and mobility for residents of Embury Apartments and Woodlawn Commons and provides evaluations in preparation for their return home. 

The physical therapy specialties offered by Wesley include orthopedics, sports medicine, back injuries, and neurological rehabilitation. Occupational therapy services include repetitive motion injuries, arthritic disorders, hand therapy, and custom splint fabrication. Speech services include language, articulation disorders, language disorders, and stuttering.

“I am so happy to join and lead the in-house rehab team here at The Wesley Community,” said Wesley’s Director of Inhouse Rehabilitation Linnea Heffner. “Each member of the team is deeply committed to the progress and well-being of the Wesley residents we serve, which I strongly believe will contribute to the healing process.”

Heffner earned a degree in Occupational Therapy from Maria College and has held a leadership role in that discipline for a decade.