Dena Stephenson Shares a Rehab Department's Transition to Telepractice

Dena Stephenson is a physical therapist and Director of Therapy Services at Ogden Regional Medical Center in Ogden, Utah.  She has been a physical therapist for 19 years and has worked in acute care hospitals, charter schools, outpatient clinics, home health and skilled nursing facilities.  Dena loves treating patients and focuses all her management responsibilities on improving patient care by supporting the therapists on her team.  She recently oversaw the use of on-site teletherapy to preserve personal protective equipment and provide valuable speech therapy services to patients with Covid-19 and dysphagia.  Dena only treats a few patients a week in her director role but she loves to help family and friends improve their movement patterns and decrease pain, by teaching them integrative movement techniques in-person and often through teletherapy.