2013 Award Winners 

Margie Godfrey has been awarded RMI’s 2013 Manager of the Year. A long standing RMI employee, Margie started as a staff therapist with the company and was quickly promoted to a management position in the Greenfield Assisted Living communities.  Margie is not only an outstanding Department Head of three facilities in the Shenandoah Valley, she is also a dynamic clinician and patient advocate.  Margie consistently meets and exceeds her budgeted financial expectations in each building.  She manages staff and PRN across three facilities with very little oversight.  Margie also has built an excellent relationship with her employees, most who have also been with the company 5+ years. She fosters an environment of teamwork and patient centered treatment and makes therapy fun with her teams and patients.  They provide monthly health talks, in-services and other opportunities to the residents and staff.  She recently completed an in-service to the community about the benefits of ACP for residents.  She also regularly provides staff education on body mechanics and transfer training.  For her residents, Margie integrates activities to provide fun events for the residents month after month and always has activities that are creative treatment approaches including writing Christmas cards with residents, helping to organize a T-Ball baseball game between two of the communities, and always promotes PT, OT month as well as nursing celebrations through creative activities.  She is very in-tune with the customer service relationship and the Greenfield management appreciates her consistency through the years.  She cares deeply about her residents, her team and the success of RMI in the facilities.  Margie has a passion for OT and the patients she treats and an extreme dedication to the success of RMI.  Congratulations to Margie Godfrey! RMI’s 2013 Manager of the Year!!

Jersey Roy Reyes has been awarded RMI’s 2013 New Graduate of the Years! Jersey is a true RMI asset earning universal praise from the administrator, the staff and almost every resident in at the Gardens. Jersey provides excellent care and he goes the ‘extra step’ to make sure his residents embrace the “whatever it takes” attitude. In addition to always showing his customers, patients and family members respect and dignity, Jersey’s extra effort and dedication as a new graduate towards his work that makes him an integral part of RMI’s success at the Gardens. Jersey has developed an incredible rapport with the facility administrator and residents where many of them see him as an extension of their family, knowing that he has their best interest in mind. Jersey is the "Rescue man"; when we have residents who cancel or are not motivated for therapy, he steps in and, before the resident knows what has happened, they have agreed to participate in some fun exercises with smiles on their face. Jersey has a very positive, passionate, and energetic attitude that is so contagious you cannot help but smile. Jersey sets a good example for everyone to continue to improve skills and to put others’ needs above our own.

Kristy Perkins has been awarded RMI’s 2013 Clinician of the Year! Kristy is a COTA/L therapist at Bedford County Nursing Home. She has been with RMI for over 8 years and initially started with RMI as a PRN therapist before joining the team in 2011 as a part time COTA.  Kristy has been vital in establishing a wheelchair program at her facility. She provides extensive training to staff and residents on proper wheelchair positioning to decrease skin breakdown and increase patient mobility. She has been able to work directly with getting tilt in space wheelchairs, as well as power assist wheels for wheelchairs.  Kristy is working towards becoming ATP (Assistive Technology Professional) Certified in order to further her knowledge and skills to assist patients with technology and devices to increase levels of independence.