09/18/2025
Happy National Rehabilitation Awareness Week to our amazing community of therapists!.
This week, we celebrate your dedication, expertise, and compassion in transforming the lives of patients every day.
As you continue to restore strength and rebuild lives, we want to especially recognize the essential role telehealth has played in expanding access to care. The pandemic demonstrated its effectiveness, and now it's up to us to advocate for its continued use.
Why advocate for continued telehealth in our industry?
Accessibility: Telehealth reaches patients quicker when necessary, ensuring they receive timely interventions
Improved Care: It offers prompt care that can lead to better patient adherence and outcomes.
Satisfaction: Our patients, customers and the families they serve appreciate getting the rehab process started when we must do a virtual evaluation.
Your voice is powerful. This week, we encourage you to celebrate your field and take a moment to contact your representatives to support permanent telehealth policies. By doing so, you'll help secure this vital option for patients everywhere.
Copy and paste this link easily use your voice!
https://www.votervoice.net/AOTA/Campaigns/129203/Respond
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A MEMBER OF AOTA TO USE THIS LINK!
Thank you for all you do, you are sincerely appreciated!
The use of telehealth to deliver a wide range of services, including occupational therapy, has expanded significantly since 2020, when Congress enacted temporary waivers allowing more types of practitioners, including occupational therapists and...