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Kristy Bloom was awarded the  2017 Dorn Long Outstanding Clinical Educator Award for her contributions to clinical education during the recent Texas Physical Therapy Association Convention. Kristy, nominated by one of her many students that interned at Pate, received this award to recognize her consistent record of exceptional clinical mentoring and education for physical therapy …

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It was a beautiful crisp day for the Dallas marathon run near downtown this year. The Dallas BMW Marathon is quite a challenge but Pate fielded a relay team of fourteen staff members for the marathon and eight more staff members for the half marathon. (Yes, they finished!) The Dallas marathon relay team is composed …

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  ‘Tis the season and Pate’s Brinlee Creek Ranch in Anna, Texas kicked it off with a very special event…a holiday parade. This is one of our absolute favorite events! This charming procession wound through the property and featured all sorts of community participants. There were cars, trucks, fire engines, floats, motorcyclists, cowboys on horses, …

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To help provide education on risk reduction during recovery, we created new stroke resource centers at all our treatment facilities. Each year almost 800,000 people have a stroke. Almost a quarter of these strokes are recurrences. People who come to Pate for their stroke treatment face a real risk of recurrence but lifestyle changes can …

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Pate joined our friends at Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Fort Worth at their annual PMR charity golf tournament to raise money that pays patient medical bills and even their living expenses during treatment. The PMR charity golf tournament was held at Waterchase Golf Club and was packed with golfers including local celebrities and Dallas Cowboys. …

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For the new year, Pate employees organized a coat drive to collect warm winter clothing for people living on the street in Dallas. We paired up with an amazing local organization created by Pastor David Miranda who was an interpreter for Pate’s Spanish program before leaving to found his non-profit, The West End Streets project. …

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Former Pate clinical director Patrick Plenger now has a building named after him to honor his service to Pate. A new plaque dedicates the new Patrick M. Plenger Treatment Center at Brinlee Creek Ranch and tells the brief story of this extraordinary man but there’s so much more that won’t fit. Dr. Plenger has spent …

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