Bamberg County Hospital...‘Still making a difference’
Joyce M. Searson, Publisher
For most of us, the
thought of having surgery
and the word rehabilitation
never crosses our
minds…but that definitely
was not the case for senior
football player, Zephania
Grimes with a knee injury,
and avid golfer, Rad Free
with a shoulder injury.
These two Bamberg
natives found out how
important the part of
rehabilitation after surgery
is. Both Free and Grimes
said they were very
fortunate because they were
able to get the therapy
treatment that was needed
right here in Bamberg at
their local hospital.
In 2010, Physical
Therapist, Allison Carr,
treated Grimes in Bamberg
Rehab with a knee injury
after he was referred by the
Moore Orthopedics Clinic
in Columbia.
Grimes trained hard in
physical therapy with
dynamic knee stability
exercises including agility
training, plyometrics, yoga
and core training and then
went back to finish his
senior year. He just recently
signed with Illinois
University for a scholarship
to play football in the fall.
“After I started rehab in
Bamberg, I started seeing a
big difference. Mrs. Carr
worked me harder than
Coach Crosby,” said
Grimes.
Rad Free had extensive
rotator cup surgery in June
2010, so extensive that he
could not go to rehab for
seven weeks. He was in
rehab for thirteen weeks.
“They were great in
Bamberg. I requested
Bamberg instead of
Orangeburg, because it was
convenient and I felt like
Bamberg Rehab could do
just as well,” said Free.
He said between the
surgery and rehab, he has
already exceeded
everyone’s expectation. “I
am already back to playing
golf.”
In order to cut costs,
Bamberg County Hospital
partners/contracts with Low
Country Health Care
Network (501©(3) not for
profit), a rural health
network, to provide
Physical and Occupational
Therapy services to
outpatients, hospital
inpatients and swing bed
patients.
Low Country Health
Care Network has been
working with healthcare
providers in Allendale,
Bamberg, Barnwell and
Hampton counties since
1998. Bamberg Rehab
Clinic accepts referrals from
all providers in and around
the community including
Columbia, Aiken,
Orangeburg and Charleston.
Patients do not have to drive
the distance to receive the
quality, service-friendly
rehab services which are
already provided by local
therapists living in the
Bamberg area.
Bamberg native
Elizabeth Weaver,
Occupational Therapist and
Clinical Manager at
Bamberg Rehab for ten
years; Allison and Michael
Carr, Physical Therapists,
have relocated to Bamberg
from Charleston and Julie
Silver, COTA from St.
George, all provide the local
care needed at the center.
Cliff Bauer, interim
administrator at the
Bamberg Hospital, “these
are great examples and great
stories about how the local
hospital can make a
difference in the
community.”
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