Lora Baker Email & Phone Number

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Anchorage, Alaska Area

Home health travel contract in Sitka, Alaska for SEARHC

Homer, Alaska

• Provided temporary maternity coverage
• Traveled between six schools located in Homer and remote villages of Vosnesanka and Port Graham
• Provided school based pediatric therapy services for students pre-K through high school
• Interprofessional collaboration with occupational therapy, speech therapy, teachers andclassroom paraprofessionals to develop and modify IEP goals and objectives
• Instructed aquatic therapy weekly for 5 students

United States

• 4/2018-10/2018 Frontier Home Health and Hospice Anchorage, AK
• Provided home based physical therapy services for a variety of orthopedic, neurologic, andgeriatric diagnosis
• Completed OASIS admission, resumption, recertification and discharge documentation.10/2017-4/2018 Kaiser Permanente Fremont, CA
• Evaluated and treated outpatient caseload comprised of 80% neurological diagnosis such asParkinson’s, CVA, TBI, fall prevention, vertigo, 20% orthopedic conditions such as shoulder,low back, knee pain
• Taught monthly “Exercise is Medicine” class for newly diagnosed patients with Parkinson’s
• Co-instructed with occupational therapist a weekly group therapy for patients status post CVA3/2017-9/2017 South Peninsula Hospital Homer, AK

Burbank, CA

• Taught interdisciplinary team (nurses, physical, occupational, speech and respiratory therapists) EPIC systems
• Aided in preparing hospital caregivers in transition from CAMIS to EPIC
• Trained new employees and students in EPIC EMR

Burbank, CA

• Acute Care (orthopedic, oncologic, cardiopulmonary, neuro-telemetry and intensive care units)
• Balance and Vestibular Clinic (outpatient services with Neurocom Balance Master)
• Home Health
• New Employee Orientation - Developed programming for on-boarding new therapy staff
• EPIC Credentialed Trainer - Train and provide ongoing support to interdisciplinary staff
• Community liaison- organized therapist involvement in community stroke and diabetes management fairs, guest speaker at community Mall walkers and hospital Guild groups

Managua, Nicaragua

• Served as primary group translator for Regis students, faculty, Nicaraguan physical therapists, patients and family members
• Worked with adult inpatient population (amputee, stroke and spinal cord injury clinics) as well as inpatient and outpatient pediatric population.
• Developed Spanish language gait analysis form based on Rancho Los Amigos gait analysis form

Tualatin, OR

• Provided in-service training to clinical staff on evidence-based clinical balance outcome measures
• Practiced manual therapy techniques and therapeutic exercise in private outpatient orthopedic setting

Sacramento, California Area

• Offered in-service training to physical therapy staff on pediatric evidence based participation outcome measures
• Provided therapeutic treatment to children in a variety of settings (home-based Early Intervention, school, and clinic that included warm water pool therapy)

Denver, CO

• Presented an in-service to inpatient speech, occupational, and physical therapists on acute care management of patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome and Wernicke’s encephalopathy
• Introduced evidence based balance outcome measures that were adopted by Physical Therapy Department
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team to provide care to inpatients in orthopedic, telemetry, step-down and intensive care units.

Dpt, Physical Therapy

Bs, Athletic Training