Written By: Dave Lishinsky, PT
VP of Clinical Compliance


Student Clinical Affiliations
We want to take a few minutes to share AdvantageCare Rehabilitation’s philosophy and thoughts on Clinical Education of therapy students.  

As a company, we have student affiliation agreements with many colleges and universities across the state.  We feel that this benefits, in many ways, our residents/patients, our customer SNFs, our therapists, the communities in which we live and work, the colleges/universities, and of course the students themselves.  As professionals, this allows us to “give back” or pay it forward.  We also feel that this supports our clinical philosophy:


“Clinical Drives the Operations.”

As a company, we cannot (and do not want to) mandate that our therapists participate in student education as Clinical Instructors.  We do strongly encourage our therapists to embrace the opportunity to serve as Clinical Instructors and fully realize the value in working with students. We take pride in empowering future professionals. As a company, we dedicate ourselves to furthering the education of others and assisting with the professional development of our therapists.

Pictured: Summer interns with our therapy team at Susque-View Home Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Stay tuned for a future post from one of our therapy students about the transition from classroom to clinic!


About AdvantageCare Rehabilitation, LLC
AdvantageCare Rehabilitation, LLC offers a unique approach to post-acute patient care, through our patient centered transitional care model. Advantage follows the patient from one healthcare setting to the next, starting at the hospital, to skilled nursing care, ultimately to the residence the patient calls home. Allowing for grater attention to beneficiary episodes of care, understanding patterns in service across post-acute settings, all while reducing the overall cost of care per episode while demonstrating high patient outcomes.
AdvantageCare Rehab was incorporated in 2003 and specializes in the delivery of advanced and proven geriatric rehabilitation services. Advantage provides daily physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech pathology services to patients in over 2600 nursing home and long-term care beds across the state of Pennsylvania. Advantage Home Health Services provides therapy and nursing services to patients that have left these facilities to continue their recovery at home.  Together, these companies provide a consistent approach to patient care, referred to as the “Advantage Continuum of Care”, which enables Advantage facility therapists to consult with Advantage in-home health professionals to ensure a smooth transition for patients, easing their anxiety and delivering improved outcomes.  AdvantageCare Consulting provides strategic management consulting for long-term care facilities, helping them to adopt measures that improve patient outcomes and the facility’s financial performance.
The Advantage Group, Pennsylvania owned and operated, maintains the highest levels of integrity in order to deliver services that improve the lives and skills of our patients. Together the companies employ nearly 650 employees.

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