Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center

The Permian Basin Rehab Center was at first named as The Center for Crippled Children. It was located on Dotsy Avenue. It has been connected to the people living in West Texas. Therapy provided by this center is useful for the children who get impacted by the effects of polio. This center changed its name in the year 1965 to the Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center. It was licensed for giving treatment to adults as well as children. The Rehabilitation center moved in the year 1970 to its current location at 620 North Alleghaney Avenue. The main goal of this center is to provide the best quality therapy and skilled and qualified staff to the people living in West Texas.

This center provides people a multi-disciplinary and completely coordinated approach to treat the patient, offering hearing services, physical therapy and occupational therapy. Therapy is provided to the people suffering from any disease, illness and injury by the rehab center. The Texas rehab center has ample support from the people of Texas in terms of finance and other resources. Such kindness has been instrumental in offering patients with best financial support, therapy services to those who have financial problems. Permian Basin Rehab Center is a non-profit organization. Great assistance is provided by this center through private donations and creative fund raising efforts.

The annual PBRC Telethon, The Pilot Club of Odessa Community Christmas Tree, the Great American Steakout and the Helping Hand Program in partnership with CBS7 benefit the rehab center. Permian Basin Rehab Center is the most preferred provider for insurance companies such as Medicare and Medicaid. This rehab center has undergone widespread renovations. In past two years, this rehab center has gone through great growth according to the Executive director of PBRC, Risse' Rogers. The center has increased almost from 800 patients to 1700 patients visit per month. This rehab center correctly identifies the needs of the community to meet the needs of the patient and provide them best care. Both the patients and staff are very eager about the growth of the center.

The therapy staff was given the training in Neurodevelopment training, NDT. NDT is the best therapy training for children. Such training is necessary to deal with children suffering from neurological difficulties like traumatic brain injury and cerebral palsy. The rehab center even provides the best quality training to its staff for offering continuous care to the patients.

PBRC can even provide bilingual therapeutic services in all of the departments. Biggest bilingual speech team is provided in the West Texas by the PBRC speech department. Language and speech therapy that is offered in the native language of the patient increase the success in the school environment, home, social work and even motivate carryover and increase the interaction among therapists, family and the patient. Best therapy services are provided to adults who have suffered a stroke to children with autism by the Occupational Department. They can treat patients and even guide them process sensory information with sensory room. Special treatment rooms of this center give a place for individualized treatment areas, which reduce the interruptions for the patients. This center is very proud to be the biggest outpatient rehab facility providing different treatment programs to people living in West Texas. The staff in PBRC is fully committed to excellence through dignified, effective and responsible rehabilitation therapies for people from all age groups.