If you are unfamiliar with The FOX Five, the concept is simple: a FOX colleague explores what it is like to work with FOX Rehabilitation by picking a topic and then creating a list of five reasons to support that topic—hence the title of the series (it wouldn't make much sense to come up with a list of four for The FOX Five, right?).

In today’s episode, Jim Shearer, FOX Rehabilitation’s Director of Communications, chats with FOX physical therapist, Caitlin Brady, PT, DPT. Caitlin gives us five reasons why FOX supports “clinical excellence.” It is more than a tagline. At FOX, we push ourselves daily and take pride in our clinically excellent physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists.

Caitlin talks about our Quality Assurance team, who ensures FOX clinicians are fully supported when treating older adult patients. She also discusses the technology that FOX incorporates into our practice which helps a clinician stay efficient throughout their treatment day. FOX clinicians also contribute original articles and podcasts to the Fresh FOX Content section of our website. This additional resource is where you can find a wide array of information, strategies, and techniques used by FOX colleagues.

Lastly, since Caitlin Brady is a FOX physical therapist, we cannot begin without wishing all of you a happy National Physical Therapy Month!

Jim: Hello everybody, welcome to The FOX Five, the series that explores the world of FOX Rehabilitation through an original list created by a FOX colleague. Today I am joined by FOX physical therapist, Caitlin Brady Caitlin. Welcome!

Caitlin: Hi Jim.

Jim: For anyone interested in trivia. Caitlin Brady appeared on the first-ever episode of the Live Better Longer podcast. You never know, Caitlin, that could be asked in bar trivia at some point in time.

Caitlin: I'm sure.

Jim: It was you and Maureen. You appeared on episode number one of the Live Better Longer podcast. This is episode number three of The FOX Five. I'm sorry you weren't the first for this, one Caitlin.

Caitlin: I’ll put it all on the resume.

Jim: So Caitlin, what is your FOX Five today?

Caitlin: So, my FOX Five is Five Ways FOX Supports Clinical Excellence.

Jim: I like that, so let's start with number one, how does FOX support clinical excellence?

Caitlin: So, one great perk of being a FOX clinician is you get access to MedBridge. So you automatically get a MedBridge subscription. That's a platform I used before I was a FOX clinician, and when I was hired I was pumped to see it.

Jim: For someone interested in the clinical world—maybe they're still in school—can you tell them what MedBridge is?

Caitlin: Yeah, so MedBridge, it is an online learning platform specific to the rehab world. It's for physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists. I believe there might be a few other disciplines, but there are courses that are provided, there are live courses, and then pre-recorded courses; and they're recorded by a lot of the industry leaders so it's really great access to courses that you might have to travel a lot for otherwise.

Jim: That's number one, what is number two on your FOX Five?

Caitlin: Number two is the certification programs that FOX offers. So, we can go for our NCS, OCS, or GCS as FOX clinicians—and be supported all along the way through the certification program.

Jim: Caitlin, what is the number three reason that FOX supports “clinical excellence”?

Caitlin: The number three reason—this is something I really love about FOX—is our EMR, Raintree, is constantly evolving based on the latest research and input from our clinicians in the field. So, it kind of just tees up our documentation to include best practices and be really streamlined for us.

Jim: It's an efficient way to document.

Caitlin: Yeah, absolutely.

Jim: You're not taking sheets of paper and filling them out by pen and faxing people. So, we're innovative—we're innovative at FOX. And that brings us to number four on your FOX Five.

Caitlin: So, number four is our QA department. Our Quality Assurance department and all of the resources they provide to us. Again, they're kind of built into our medical records system so you have access to all these great kinds of [resources]. One of them that I love is our dosage guide. If you have a patient that you're not sure about, you can access this guide and it can help to inform how often you're seeing that person or how intense your program is going to be with them. It is just right there at your fingertips.

Jim: I speak to our Quality Assurance people a lot, and they are thorough.

Caitlin: Yes they are.

Jim: They are THOROUGH in all caps.

Caitlin: Yeah.

Jim: And I would say sometimes too thorough, but you can't be too thorough. And that brings us to number five on your FOX Five.

Caitlin: So, the last thing on the list is our Fresh FOX Content. I look at the blog articles that other clinicians have written, and I listen to the webinars. You know, if I have a tough case, then I access those archives and see if there's something that another clinician has talked about that might be helpful, and it's something that's out there not only for FOX clinicians but other clinicians in the field.

Jim: Yeah, I think it is cool like you said how our content is used as a resource because I do the podcast. I think it's fun, but I never think that “Oh yeah, like another clinician could use that as a resource.”

Caitlin: Yeah, if you're stuck on ideas or you just need kind of a fresh perspective it is nice to hear from others—you know—firsthand from other providers.

Jim: Caitlin thank you for your FOX Five. I know it to be true, but can you confirm it today? Are you “clinically excellent”?

Caitlin: I believe that I am Jim.

Jim: Yes you are! I’m glad that you said it today!