Sheltering Arms Blog

Enjoy pictures of our favorite moments at the 2010 P2O – Power To Overcome Celebration on our Facebook page!

Sheltering Arms is receiving another great award!  We just found out that we’re being included in the 2010 list of Best Places to Work in Healthcare, compiled by Modern Healthcare! Here’s the news release we’re putting out to make the announcement: Richmond, Va.) – Sheltering Arms, Central Virginia’s premier physical therapy healthcare provider, announced today [...]

Sheltering Arms is having a good week. Richmond’s premier physical therapy and rehabilitation healthcare provider has been notified this week that it has won two national awards and three statewide awards. Competing against healthcare organizations from across the U.S., Sheltering Arms was honored with a gold Aster Award, given only to the top five percent [...]

May is National Stroke Awareness Month! Sheltering Arms still has a few exciting educational events planned for the remainder of the month. Check them out below and make sure to call and reserve your space today! Do you have a Stroke Plan? Thursday, May 13, 2010 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. – lunch provided Science [...]

The DuPont Spruance Plant’s 3000 Day Safety Club has generously supported Sheltering Arms since 1954. As a DuPont employee for nearly forty years, Chris Fredericksen was very familiar with the remarkable recoveries patients make at Sheltering Arms, but never did he imagine that he would be one of them! In February, E.coli entered Chris’s body [...]

After extending a public request for proposal, Lucy Corr Village, a highly regarded skilled nursing facility in Chesterfield County, has selected Sheltering Arms Physical Rehabilitation Centers as the provider of its therapy services. These two dynamic and growing Richmond icons share a genuine commitment to the community. Both are non-profit health care organizations started by [...]

When Ron Duck offered to help one of his employees on July 27, 2006, he had no idea it would change his life forever. An accident on the loading dock resulted in a spinal cord injury, leaving him unable to speak and with limited movement. “I couldn’t even scratch my nose,” he recalls. Ron spent [...]

(Richmond, Va.) – Richmond-based Sheltering Arms is announcing a partnership with a nationally-recognized firm that’s designed to provide a number of new services for patients. Sheltering Arms Physical Rehabilitation Centers and HealthPRO Rehabilitation have signed a formal collaboration agreement to offer contemporary rehabilitation services in the post-acute healthcare setting (where patients go following a hospital [...]

With a history of more than 120 years, Sheltering Arms has many longtime supporters.  Two of its most generous and influential supporters, however, are Robert Watkins and deVeaux Riddick.  The two mainstays of Richmond theater were asked in 1957 to help Sheltering Arms create a new fundraiser.  The event they helped create, the Bal du [...]

The Valentine’s Day surprise for patients at Sheltering Arms’ Hanover County inpatient hospital was named a “Mech Moment” by the Mechanicsville Local this week!  For more details on the surprise, read this post.  A scan of the image in the Mechanicsville Local is below!