DeSales is opening a location at 932 Hamilton St. in Allentown. PHOTO/COURTESY DESALES UNIVERSITY –
DeSales University is opening a new location in downtown Allentown.
The Center Valley university is cutting the ribbon on the new space on March 23 at 932 Hamilton St.
is cutting the ribbon on a new location in downtown Allentown.
“This is a mission-forward endeavor for DeSales University,” says Father James Greenfield, president of the school. “DeSales Allentown is about improving access to quality educational services and cutting-edge skills training. This partnership has the power to transform individuals, families, communities, and businesses.”
According to Greenfield the new location will serve as a hub for educational partnerships between DeSales and Allentown residents and business leaders.
Features of the Allentown location include flexible lounge, office, and conference spaces for meetings and classes, events and networking, and presentations and training.
The building is also equipped with modern technology, including Wi-Fi, large visual displays, projection, and multi-function printing and scanning.
“We’re thrilled to welcome DeSales to downtown Allentown,” says Jarrett Laubach, City Center’s director of leasing. “To have one of the region’s best universities come to Allentown will provide convenient access for people pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees, many of whom already live and work in downtown Allentown.”
Batch Microcreamery is opening at the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley. –
A new sweet treat is coming to the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley.
The Center Valley shopping center in Center Valley has announced that Batch Microcreamery, a hand-crafted ice cream store modeled after the specialty environment in the microbrewery industry will be opening a 1,000-square-foot shop in the first quarter of 2023 near Lashes by Gab.
The new ice cream shop will be owned by local entrepreneurs Manny Rodriguez and Rick Pongracz.
“Batch Microcreamery is yet another fabulous addition to our retail lineup, and one we are sure our shoppers will heartily embrace,” said Natalia Stezenko, general manager for The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley. “Since Centennial took over the management and leasing of The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley earlier this year, we have been attracting a number of enticing new tenants, including ELITE Salons & Suites, Squishable, and for the holiday season, a number of local entrepreneurs who are showcasing their wares in our Multi-Vendor Holiday Pop-Up Market. We enthusiastically embrace this kind of growth and change, and we are particularly gratified to welcome the new Batch Microcreamery store to our lineup.”
“Having grown up just 20 minutes away from The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley, we couldn’t be more excited to provide our friends and neighbors in the Center Valley area with our distinctive brand of ice cream and the fun-filled experience they will have in our store,” says Pongracz, co-owner of Batch Microcreamery. “We selected The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley for our newest location because of the center’s upbeat atmosphere and exciting events and activities that include everything from holiday tree lightings to wine and craft beer pop-ups, each engaging the community and complementing the talents and offerings of the very successful retailers and restaurants throughout the center.”
Batch Microcreamery aims to capture the atmosphere of a microbrewery and combine it with the family-friendly atmosphere of an ice cream shop.
The Batch menu is filled with freshly made ice creams in cups or cones as well as a variety of shakes and floats, ice cream sandwiches, and ice cream nachos.
In addition to serving customers directly, Batch Microcreamery also offers wholesale ice cream to restaurants and event venues.
Rendering of the elevator lobby for Shift4’s new headquarters in Center Valley – PHOTO/PROVIDED
Shift4, an integrated payment processing firm in Allentown said it has seen explosive growth as the world of commerce is changing.
And Tuesday, Shift4 landed a contract with The Chickasaw Nation to process payments for dozens of venues, including WinStar World Casino and Resort, the world’s largest casino.
Taylor Lauber –
Taylor Lauber, president and chief strategy officer for Shift4, said the company, which was started in a basement in Far Hills, New Jersey by Jared Issacman, CEO, now employs 2,100 people globally with 600 in Allentown.
The company moved to Allentown because of the talent pool and Lauber said it is preparing to move to Center Valley within the first six months of next year to accommodate its continued growth.
Shift4 provides payment technology called SkyTab for merchants ranging from casinos to table restaurants and hotels to stadiums.
“These venues have lots of places to pay throughout their facilities and we connect them all safely,” Lauber said.
But even more importantly, the company allows the merchants to accept all kinds of digital payments on one platform. Lauber explained that globally, there are a multitude of platforms for electronic payments and Shift4 allows merchants to accept them all easily.
The company has seen a year-over-year 52% growth and 15% employee growth. In fact, it added 400 employees in the third quarter of this year, he said.
Lauber said digital payment has been growing for years but exploded during the pandemic. “We take all the devices and deliver them in one platform. That is our shining star,” he said.
The company grew through strategic mergers and acquisitions to allow it to use the multiple payment platforms around the world. Lauber said they have made 21 such acquisitions in the last five years.
“We power $.25 trillion through the platform and $250 billion worth of commerce flows through us each year,” Lauber said.
“We are rarely a recognizable brand by design because we want our customers’ brands to shine,” he said. “We work behind the scenes.”
Shift4 works with about 40% of hotels, 30% of table restaurants and all UPS stores. “When we began to diversify into stadiums and casinos, we saw real growth,” he said.
In fact, in early 2020, the company worked with zero stadiums and this year, it is in more than 120.
The large venues work with hybrid technology, he explained. “If you visit a theme park and want to pay in a modern way, we do that.”
From ordering tickets to buying food at concession stands, or even from a seat, Shift4 handles the payments. It is also set up to process payments for online merchandise and online gaming, Lauber said. All on one platform.
“It used to be the Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express way of payment,” he said. “Now, there are all types of payment methods, like PayPal in the U.S. Other countries have their own forms of payment and that can be daunting for a company to manage.”
Lauber said the bigger the merchant, the bigger the problems they face when processing payments. “We like complex because we make it simple.”
St. Luke’s University Health Network has implemented the first One-Stop Clinic in the United States, serving as a national model for how to help accelerate breast cancer care through a multi-modality approach.
SLUHN said it is in partnership with PINC AI Applied Sciences and GE Healthcare for the One-Stop Clinic.
Dr. Karl Yaeger
The model, which originated at the Gustave Roussy Cancer Center in France, has been shown to improve clinical workflow and speed up breast cancer diagnosis and treatment planning.
“We’ve seen this model surpass expectations in France and Colombia, and with the support of PINC AI Applied Sciences, we’re proud to be working with St. Luke’s to bring these same benefits to women in the United States to help redefine the patient experience through a personalized approach to breast care from screening and diagnosis to treatment planning,” said Celeste Slade, clinical leader of Breast Imaging for GE Healthcare.
Misty Anderson, Principal Improvement Science, PINC AI Applied Sciences, said that St. Luke’s was chosen for the partnership because “they had a strong commitment to education, an existing regional breast center infrastructure, better-than-average results, reduced wait times and strong clinical and operational support.”
The St. Luke’s Regional Breast Center, Center Valley, employs a staff of 20 breast imaging professionals who serve the entire region. To date, more than 300 patients have benefited from this rapid diagnostic approach that lessens the average waiting time for a diagnosis from a national average of 26 days to just three to seven days, SLUHN said.
Dr. Karl Yaeger, radiologist and section chief of Women’s Imaging at SLUHN, said the partnership with PINC AI Applied Sciences and GE Healthcare represents “a paradigm shift in the way we deliver breast care” in the area.
“We already had most of the infrastructure in place, with world-class facilities, cutting-edge technology and medical professionals,” he said. “It was more a matter of changing operations to facilitate this new approach. It’s very exciting to be able to offer this as it carries several benefits for the patients.”
St. Luke’s Network Director of Women’s Imaging Michele Brands said, “Our number one guiding light for this program is to reduce the time patients wait for results and to reduce their anxiety around the entire process.”
With this model, Brands said, a woman presenting with concerning breast symptoms will be “scaffolded with care. She meets with her breast nurse navigator, and we conduct all imaging and biopsy right onsite.”
St. Luke’s is also the first in the region to be able to provide contrast-enhanced mammography, an imaging technique that uses iodinated intravenous (IV) contrast in combination with a digital mammogram.
Yaeger said the dye acts to make any cancer growth stand out against background tissue. “It’s highly accurate, and it helps us to see very early on in the diagnostic process whether or not a patient has cancer, or if further testing is needed,” he said.
The process to launch a pilot program in the United States began with conversations between GE Healthcare, PINC AI Applied Sciences and St. Luke’s in 2019 and debuted in 2021, Brands said.
“Their model has been implemented in other countries, but we have a different standard of care here. We participated on an advisory board and discussed if this was even possible in the U.S.,” she said. “Then COVID-19 hit. It took us about 18 months of planning to get this off the ground since the pandemic created backlogs in healthcare beyond anything we had seen before.”
Olympus Innovation Ventures, Center Valley-based Olympus’ venture capital fund, made its first investment in a Carlsbad, California company Wednesday.
Olympus said it invested in the Series A financing of Virgo Surgical Video Solutions for AI research.
The Olympus corporate venture capital fund makes investments in emerging digital, device, and diagnostic companies in minimally invasive detection and treatment of disease in gastroenterology, urology, respiratory care and other clinical areas.
“The pace of innovation in endoscopy is accelerating rapidly, with companies like Virgo contributing to advancements in artificial intelligence and machine learning that are designed to assist physicians in delivering optimal patient care,” said Townsend Goddard, senior vice president, global head, business development of Olympus. “As a global leader in medical technology, Olympus is focused on startups, like Virgo, with innovative technologies to improve clinical outcomes, reduce healthcare costs and enhance the quality of life for patients.”
Gastroenterologists use the Virgo platform powered by AI, in part to record endoscopic procedures without interrupting clinical workflows. Virgo also leverages endoscopy video data and AI to identify patient candidates for inflammatory bowel disease clinical trials.
“Virgo is excited to have the support of Olympus, whose expertise in endoscopy makes this investment a natural fit,” said Matt Schwartz, Virgo co-founder, and CEO.
He said the company will use the investment to develop automation and AI tools to help improve patient outcomes and clinical workflows for endoscopy.
“Olympus, aiming to be a partner of choice for innovators, will continue to help its portfolio companies succeed,” said Nacho Abia, COO of Olympus. “We will do this by contributing clinical and technical expertise, along with insights on strategies for launching and scaling innovative solutions in the global market.”
From left, Mark Simmons, Air Products; Stacy Halliday, Air Products; Alexis Fernandez, Air Products; Laurie Hackett, Air Products; Michael Spigel, Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network; Cindy Buchman, Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network; and Marilyn Long, Air Products – PHOTO/PROVIDED –
Air Products Foundation gave $250,000 to the Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network “Hope Starts Here” capital campaign to support its planned Outdoor Therapy Garden.
The pledge helps Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network’s efforts to build a 76-bed, state-of-the-art rehabilitation hospital on 45 acres of land across from The Promenade Shops of Saucon Valley, near Route 309 and Interstate 78 in Center Valley.
With the final steel beam of the under-construction hospital in the background, Air Products Foundation representatives presented Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network leaders with a ceremonial check in South Allentown Friday.
“Air Products is honored to join with others in support of Good Shepherd,” said Laurie Hackett, Air Products community relations director. “We celebrate the work that they do and this unique outdoor space will add much to the rehabilitation journey for so many.”
The new rehabilitation hospital, scheduled to open in June 2023, aims to revolutionize treatment and recovery options for people with stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury and other serious illnesses or injuries.
“We’re excited for the hospital opening in 2023 because only a handful of freestanding rehabilitation hospitals are built each year in the country — and one is coming right here to the Lehigh Valley,” said Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network President & CEO Michael Spigel. “It’s a transformational event for Good Shepherd, the region and for those who seek out advanced rehabilitation services. We’re so fortunate for community partners, such as the Air Products Foundation, to support Good Shepherd’s mission and what promises to be a destination for recovery.”
The new rehabilitation hospital will feature the Outdoor Therapy Gardens, which will offer physical, spiritual and social ways for patients to undergo therapy and participate in activities while staying at the rehabilitation hospital — gardening, trails, outdoor green space and more.
As part of their overall “Hope Starts Here” contribution, the Air Products Foundation will support the creation of the Activities Lawn portion of the Outdoor Therapy Gardens. The Therapy & Activities Garden space is designed specifically to allow patients to return to the activities they love, including golfing and gardening, as part of their recovery.
Good Sheperd supporters attended a beam signing ceremony for the network’s new rehabilitation hospital in Center Valley. PHOTO/SUBMITTED –
Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network put Sharpie to steel on Wednesday afternoon, signing the final steel beam that will “top off” Good Shepherd’s under-construction rehabilitation hospital.
At 23 feet long, it is the final beam to be added to the rehabilitation hospital, which is slated to open in Center Valley in June 2023.
As part of the beam-signing festivities, which were held at the Hyland Center for Health & Technology on Good Shepherd’s South Allentown campus, Good Shepherd Chaplain Kelly Brooks blessed the beam.
In addition to employees, members of Good Shepherd’s Hope Starts Here capital campaign committee, board of trustees, elected officials, community partners and others also participated in the signing.
“I want to thank each and every associate who is here today, as well as our colleagues working at sites throughout the Network,” Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network President & CEO Michael Spigel said. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my time here, it’s that Good Shepherd has a very large, very passionate base of supporters, who will do everything in their power to ensure Good Shepherd is here to serve the community for another 100-plus years. We cannot do what we do without all of you.”
Located in Center Valley across from The Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley, the four-story, 76-private-room rehabilitation hospital will focus on providing highly specialized, complex care and serve as the anchor of an all-encompassing destination campus.
Good Shepherd’s new hospital will provide advanced inpatient rehabilitation services to people seeking care for stroke, spinal cord injury, brain injury and other complex conditions.
ALDI’s Center Valley distribution center undergoing expansion PHOTO/PROVIDED –
ALDI’s Center Valley distribution center is undergoing renovations and expansion to serve more than 150 stores.
The 60,000-square-foot dry warehouse expansion will bring the total square footage to 575,000-square-feet, according to A M King, which is managing the project.
In the Northeast, where land is scarce, the focus is on renovating and expanding existing facilities. In 2006, A M King completed a 127,000-squre-foot expansion for ALDI at the 400,000-square-foot Center Valley facility.
The distribution center, located in Upper Saucon Township, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, servicing stores in Philadelphia, Northeastern and Lehigh Valley and Southeastern Pennsylvania.
“ALDI and A M King have a long and successful relationship,” said A M King Business Unit Leader Carl Morse. “Our familiarity with their facilities and strength in successfully delivering innovative cold storage and food distribution projects makes us the perfect partner for this extensive renovation and expansion in Center Valley.”
The current project includes new dry warehouse space for staging and storing nonperishable product; new coolers inside the existing warehouse; six new cooler dock positions; upfit of the existing main office and large conference room; renovations to the dry and perishable breakrooms/locker rooms, with new mezzanines added above both; demolition of an existing freezer wall to streamline operations and air movement; additional battery charging areas and associated ventilation systems; and conversion of a third-party space to a warehouse collaboration room.
Exterior and sitework will include re-roofing of the existing nonperishable roof area to arrange for solar panel installation; expansion of employee parking lot; addition of an employee entry drive to separate truck and car traffic; and expansion of a truck entry drive.
St. Luke’s Hospital-Bethlehem, site of pediatric intensive care unit. PHOTO/PROVIDED
St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) has joined the Children’s Hospital Association (CHA).
SLUHN will collaborate through the association to advance innovation in the quality, cost and delivery of care – better serving all children, the network said in a press release.
Membership in CHA represents St. Luke’s commitment to improving the health of children and improving the quality, safety and cost of pediatric health care.
“Participation in the Children’s Hospital Association offers us access to a network of institutions and people who understand the unique health care needs of children and how to best address them,” said Dr. Jennifer Janco, chair of Pediatrics at St. Luke’s University Health Network.
In 2020, St. Luke’s opened an eight-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), providing advanced care to critically ill children close to home, she said.
St. Luke’s continues to expand pediatric specialty services and will be opening the first and only free-standing pediatric specialty center in Center Valley later this year.
The specialties to be housed at the center include nephrology, gastroenterology, cardiology, pulmonology, developmental, neurology, endocrinology, child and adolescent behavioral health,physical therapy and occupational therapy, pediatric primary care, and pediatric nutrition.
In addition, St. Luke’s pediatric inpatient unit is being renovated and relocated adjacent to the PICU at St. Luke’s University Hospital – Bethlehem. St. Luke’s has made a significant capital investment in new infrastructure over the past few years to support the network’s ongoing pediatric growth, the network said.
“We welcome St. Luke’s to our national community,” said Mark Wietecha, Children’s Hospital Association president and CEO. “Our ability to transform children’s health for the better takes all of us working together and learning from each other for greater impact.”
The final steel beam was put in place on the new Lehigh Valley Center for Healthcare Education today live on Facebook.
The new center, 3900 Sierra Circle, Center Valley, expected to open in early 2023, will be the home of LVHN’s Department of Education, combining three departments into one in the new 70,000-square-foot facility with dedicated space for education, administration and support services.
“As we celebrate this milestone, I’d like to express my sincere gratitude to many who have contributed to the success of this construction,” said Dr. Michael A. Rossi, executive vice president and chief clinical officer. “Thank you to our colleagues for their dedication to our education mission and commitment to improve patient care.”
Rossi also thanked BDA Architects, Boyle Construction and Peron Development for their work on the project as well as LVHN’s Board of Trustees and the network’s partners in Upper Saucon Township for their support in investing in the education of LVHN’s caregivers.
“Peron Development is excited to work with Lehigh Valley Health Network on the development and construction of the Department of Education building,” said Rob de Beer, director of development, Peron Development. “Featuring best-in-class design elements and construction materials, this will be a sophisticated building at a prominent location and a true showpiece in Upper Saucon Township.”
Rossi said the health network expects to complete construction in late 2022, and to open the building in early 2023. Education remains in the forefront at LVHN, one of Pennsylvania’s largest teaching hospitals, and this project further enhances a strong legacy of molding future generations of health care professionals, he said.
During the virtual ceremony today, Rossi said education is the key to:
Attracting providers that are on the cutting edge of medical advancements
Providing high-quality care and safe patient experiences
Growing LVHN’s medical education programs to attract the best and brightest candidates
Facilitating clinical experiences for students in health professions in the region, and
Onboarding and retaining clinical staff through continued opportunities for professional development
“We want to maintain LVHN’s national certification as a Great Place to Work for all colleagues and doing so involves making sure they have the tools they need to succeed,” Rossi said.
Dr. Robert Barraco, chief academic officer, said in addition to providing education like professional development and onboarding, undergraduate and graduate medical education, health care simulation and electronic medical record training, the Department of Education is also home to the Joseph F. McCloskey School of Nursing at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Schuylkill.
Barraco said LVHN’s Department of Education supports 1,200 medical, nursing and other students, and 340 residents and fellows. The department has provided 190,000 instructional hours of professional development and distributed over one million health sheets and 250,000 patient education resources.
“This new facility will add to or significantly improve many areas of the existing facilities LVHN uses for colleague and student education,” Barraco said.
Features include:
A new state-of-the-art simulation center
A full-size training operating room
All rooms will have plug-and-play capability for learners and ability to broadcast to other sites.
Increased classroom size and flexibility
A reception area, a dedicated food services area, a dining and event area, a 150-person auditorium and large computer labs and storage areas
Chris Cocozza, chair of the division of business; Scott Fainor; Cathy Fainor and Father James Greenfield, president of DeSales University. PHOTO/SUBMITTED –
DeSales University in Center Valley has honored alumnus Scott Fainor with the dedication of the new Fainor Center for Financial Services.
Formerly known as the Talen Energy Trading Room, the newly renamed Fainor Center is located on the second floor of the Gambet Center for Business and Health Care.
It is a specialized business classroom that has the look and feel of a trading floor, with a digital ticker tape, flat screen monitors, and computers with specialized financial software.
Fainor is a 1994 graduate of DeSales University’s adult evening program and a former member of the university’s board of trustees.
“DeSales was the place for me to be,” Fainor said during the ceremony. “There’s no place I’m more proud to have attended.”
He is currently chairman of Fainor Holdings LLC. He was formerly president and CEO of National Penn Bank.
Outdoor therapy gardens will aid patients in navigating their community/PHOTO PROVIDED –
Building on a history of embracing technology, Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network’s new hospital in Center Valley is being designed as a cutting-edge facility.
Although the hospital won’t be ready to open until late in the first quarter of 2023, plans are underway to bring the newest technology to Lehigh Valley.
Michael Spigel, Good Shepherd president and CEO, said the hospital has a long history of being early users of the newest technology. “When we began the designs, we wanted to expand on our history and willingness to use new technology,” he said.
Through the design process the hospital brought frontline workers to the table, Spigel said. Those workers helped develop the operation by giving input based on personal experience working with patients at the current hospital in South Allentown.
“We went about this in a uniquely different way,” he said. “We wanted to make sure the spaces were friendly to workers and to patients and their families.
Good Shepherd specializes in complex and catastrophic injuries and illnesses such as strokes, spinal cord and brain injuries, multiple traumas, amputation and nerve degeneration.
The team identified three trends in technology that will be included in the Experience Center, a 2,000-square-foot space inside the 123,000-square-foot, four-story facility: 3D printing, a training center and artificial intelligence.
A 3D printing program, developed in conjunction with Moravian University in Bethlehem, will have CAD (computer-assisted design) engineers working with clinicians to create personalized devices for patients. The printers will be used to make custom-made devices that aid patients, such as braces and splints and smart devices that could help patients pick up forks or glasses, even open doors, Spigel said.
“The therapist will design a device then work with an engineer who will do the final drawings and program the software. An hour to a few hours later, the device will be complete, and the therapist can fit it to the patient.
“The best part is, if it doesn’t work, a new, modified device can be made to replace it,” he said.
Prosthetic devices and adaptations to wheelchairs and walkers can also be made with this same technology. “There are research centers right now experimenting with making human organs. We are not doing that, but the technology is out there,” he said.
Smart tech
The second part of the Experience Center is the Automation Center. “We hope this will become a destination for anyone to learn about all the different technologies available, not just patients of ours.”
The Automation Center is a learning tool where patients can learn how to use smart devices such as Alexa or Google to help alter their homes or workspaces to allow more independence. For example, Spigel said, a smart device could be used to raise or lower window shades with a spoken command.
“There will be robotic technologies in the future, but for now, we can use off-the-shelf technology to optimize life,” he said. “We hope this will become a destination for anyone looking to learn about this.”
The third part of the Experience Center is wearables and artificial intelligence.
“Technology is coming that will potentially allow someone with limited use of their hands and wrists to put a sleeve on their forearm to aid with movement,” Spigel said. “Sensors will pick up on what the person wants to do and help them do it.”
Think of someone trying to pick up a fork or a water bottle with little use of their hands, he said.
“The wearables could also be wristbands or watches with sensors that would give the therapist feedback on activity levels at home. That way, he said, the therapist can stay connected to the patient even when the patient isn’t in therapy. “If they are declining, the therapist can find out why and motivate them to stay active,” he said.
“Companies today are researching ways to put this technology in the brain to regain movement in people with spinal injuries. Whatever it is, we want to be the first in the country to experiment with it.”
The age factor
The decision to build the new hospital was based on the age of the current building. The South Allentown facility was built in 1983 and has been using new technology as it has become available. The new hospital is being built to further allow the use of technology, Spigel said. “People are treated within our four walls and now they will be able to go further when they are living at home.”
The new hospital, in Upper Saucon Valley, across from the Promenade Shops of Saucon Valley, will feature 75 private rooms. The rooms are spacious to allow families to stay with the patient. Many patients outside of the area. In addition, each room will have a closet by the door with access both inside and outside the room.
“When things are delivered to the patient, like towels, sheets and bathing supplies, they can be put into the closet without disruption to the patient” he said. “When a nurse is in the room, he or she can put the supplies where they need to go.”
The rooms are equipped with smart devices that allow patients to control the blinds with their voice or call a nurse by speaking.
The hospital, which offers physical, occupational, speech and recreational therapy, along with physicians who specialize in physiatry – physical medicine and rehabilitation – will also have a large outdoor therapy and activities center. Spigel said therapists and patients can go outside to learn how to navigate their environment.
“We will have all types of surfaces on different levels with barriers of all kinds that someone would find in the community,” he said. “We are located in an open space with lots of greenery, so we decided to add the outside area.”
A garden area where people can go to relax and enjoy with family and friends is also planned. While the facility is designed so therapy can happen anywhere, the outside area will be helpful for recreational therapy, he said.
“If someone loses use of their arms or legs, they probably can’t do the things they used to do. Here they can learn to do things differently to allow them physical, mental and spiritual enrichment.” Spigel said. And, of course, in today’s world, gaming can be taught differently. “There are a whole range of activities people can do.”
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