What is Hemlock Health and Wellness
Hemlock Health and Wellness focuses on helping people optimize their function and safety through evidence-based, holistic and client-centered approaches rooted in the profession of occupational therapy. This female-owned small business works with individuals and organizations to optimize health, wellness, safety, independence and function across the lifespan and within a variety of settings.
The Leader of Hemlock
Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Alicea-Torres has been an OT for 20 years, and created Hemlock Health and Wellness to be able to reach individuals and organizations that require an innovative approach to optimizing their health, well-being and functional capacity. With her wide range of clinical experience including but not limited to working with people of varying ages, abilities, cultures, chronic and acute medical conditions and social determinants of health, a natural next step in her career is to offer her services to as many people as she can reach! Whether it be someone wanting to set themselves up to age-in-place, an organization looking to optimize the wellbeing of their clients or employees, or someone with a new, or chronic medical condition wanting to be able to do something they never dreamed of, Beth can guide you to set and reach your goals!
Services Offered
- Aging-in-place consultation
- Home safety assessment
- Home/environmental modifications
- CarFit assessment
- Functional mobility training (sitting / standing / walking)
- Self-care training
- Adaptive equipment/assistive technology
- Strengthening and conditioning
- Balance training
- Combined Decongestive Therapy/Manual Lymphatic Drainage
- Compression garment consultation
- Kinesiotaping
- Scar mobilization/reduction
- Wound care consultation and treatment
- Travel training
- Caregiver/family education and training
- End of life/palliative care consultation and treatment
- End of life planning
- Holistic approaches to pain management
- Positioning
- Executive functioning/mental health and wellness
OT Consultation
Starts with a complimentary screen to determine if the identified need(s) can be appropriately met. A needs assessment will be completed with identification of an implementation plan and objectives. OT consultation is a professional, clinical, evidence-based client focused opinion on how to address needs. Clients can be individuals, communities, groups, organizations, institutions, governments, entities, organizations etc. OT consultation may shift to the need for OT evaluation and intervention.
OT Plan of Care Process
Includes an occupational therapy evaluation based on case complexity which is inclusive of objective data, assessment, clinical analysis and the development of client-centered goals, intervention plans and a frequency and duration of intervention.
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