Colquitt Regional Volunteers donate Rifton Activity Chair to Vereen Center
Published 9:01 pm Tuesday, May 28, 2019
- Pictured from left to right are volunteers Nancy Horne, Betty Shiflett, Vera Clark, Vereen Center therapist Laura Durrence, CCC-SLP, Dorothy Blount, Ophelia Allen, and Genelle O’Neal. Vereen Center patient Lily Dickerson is seated in the new Rifton Activity Chair, a chair that greatly benefits patients and therapists during therapy sessions, which was donated by the Colquitt Regional Volunteer Auxiliary.
MOULTRIE, Ga. – The Colquitt Regional Volunteers not only give of their time on a daily basis, but they are extremely charitable through their financial contributions as well. The Volunteers recently donated a $3,500 Rifton Hi-Lo activity chair to Vereen Rehabilitation Center.
While the Rifton chair aids in a wide variety of needs in speech therapy, active learning and sensory processing challenges, the chair is particularly useful in treating therapy patients with feeding and/or swallowing difficulties.
“Having the Rifton chair at the Vereen Center has already been very beneficial for us and our patients,” said Renee Crosby, M.Ed., CCC-SLP, Director of Speech Pathology. “The Vereen team is so grateful to the Volunteers for their generosity in fulfilling this need.”
The Rifton chair is a great addition to the Vereen Center due to its numerous benefits. Among those are the chair’s ability to incline, provide stabilization at the feet, hips, chest and head areas, and the tilt-in-space function that allows treatment sessions to run more smoothly.
“Colquitt Regional continues to stay at the forefront of the healthcare industry by incorporating innovative technology and equipment like the Rifton Hi-Lo chair,” said Colquitt Regional President and CEO Jim Matney. “Our success wouldn’t be possible without the dedication and generosity of our Volunteers.”
If a patient has the goal of reducing tongue protrusion when eating and drinking, the chair will tilt back slightly and let gravity assist. The risk of aspiration is also reduced. Once the chair provides stabilization for the patient, they are free to focus on the targeted area for the session.
This chair is one of many donations from the Colquitt Regional Volunteers in the past year, including a $3,500 mock crash cart, a $2,500 contribution to Meals on Wheels, and a $5,000 donation to the Chaplain’s Fund, among others.
“We are fortunate to have such a dedicated and benevolent Volunteer group,” said Hospital Authority Chairman Maureen A. Yearta, Ed.D. “Through these donations, the Volunteers are ensuring that Colquitt Regional has the resources needed to continue providing exceptional healthcare to the community and surrounding counties.”
