Occupational Therapist Chloe Phillips Joins Rehab Team at Brookings Health System
- April 11, 2016
Licensed occupational therapist Chloe Phillips recently joined the rehabilitation team at Brookings Health System.
Phillips has a master’s degree in occupational therapy from Colorado State University and an undergraduate degree in kinesiology, the scientific study of human movement, from Mississippi State University.
Prior to working at Brookings Health System, Phillips served as a research assistant at Colorado State University, studying how yoga improves quality of life for diabetics. Her fieldwork includes a rotation at Children’s Health Center of Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona, treating children with developmental delays, neurological diseases, cardiac diseases, orthopedic conditions and brain injuries.
As an occupational therapist at Brookings Health System, Phillips will assist patients to participate in everyday activities by redeveloping motor skills or by modifying patients’ environments to better support their occupational needs.
Occupational therapy is one of the comprehensive rehabilitative services offered at Brookings Health System. For more information on how you or a loved one may benefit from the services of an occupational therapist, please visit www.brookingshealth.org/OT or call (605) 696-8821.
About Brookings Health System
Brookings Health System, located in Brookings, South Dakota, includes a 49-bed hospital, the 79-bed The Neighborhoods at Brookview nursing home, Brookhaven Estates senior living apartments, Yorkshire Eye Clinic, and medical clinics in Arlington, White and Volga, South Dakota. It is a non-profit, city-owned facility that offers the community a full range of inpatient, outpatient, surgical and extended care services. The emergency room is staffed 24 hours a day and provides around the clock patient needs ranging from minor injuries to life threatening crises. For more information about the services offered at Brookings Health System, please call (605) 696-9000 or visit us on the Web at brookingshealth.org.