Erin Krech

Served as the primary Physical Therapist in a rural critical access hospital, providing comprehensive patient care across acute care, subacute (swing bed), outpatient, and women's health settings.

Physical Therapist - Full Time at Bon Secours Mercy Health (2022-09 – 2025-06)

Served as the primary Physical Therapist in a rural critical access hospital, providing comprehensive patient care across acute care, subacute (swing bed), outpatient, and women's health settings.

• Independently performed evaluations and developed individualized plans of care.
• Collaborated extensively with physicians, nursing, case management, and other healthcare professionals to optimize functional outcomes, facilitate safe discharge, and support hospital-wide rehabilitation services.
• Led the hospital's swing bed rehabilitation program, managing patient caseloads, supervising Physical Therapist Assistants, and ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care.
• Provided outpatient coverage as needed, treating a wide variety of orthopedic and neurologic conditions.
• Following advanced continuing education in pelvic floor rehabilitation, established and managed a women's health caseload two days per week, evaluating and treating patients with pelvic floor dysfunction, incontinence, pelvic pain, and postpartum conditions.
• Demonstrated strong clinical judgment, leadership, time management, and adaptability while effectively balancing responsibilities across multiple care settings.

Physical Therapist - PRN at LifePoint Health Acute Rehab Unit (2023-02 – 2024-03)

Provided PRN physical therapy services in a hospital-based inpatient rehabilitation unit, maintaining a consistent weekend schedule while collaborating with an interdisciplinary rehabilitation team.

• Evaluated and treated patients recovering from neurologic, orthopedic, and medically complex conditions, developing individualized treatment plans focused on maximizing functional independence and safe discharge.
• Delivered evidence-based interventions including gait training, balance activities, therapeutic exercise, transfer training, caregiver education, and functional mobility training.
• Coordinated care with physicians, nursing, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, and case management to ensure continuity of care and achievement of rehabilitation goals.
• Demonstrated the ability to quickly adapt to varying caseloads, maintain productivity, and provide high-quality patient care in a fast-paced rehabilitation environment.

Physical Therapy Technician at Drayer Physical Therapy (2018-05 – 2019-07)

• Work hands-on with physical therapy patients to perform the exercises derived by the physical therapist.
• Perform duties to keep the physical therapy clinic clean and disinfected throughout the workday, such as cleaning plinths and equipment, and washing laundry.
• Answer phones, check patients in, and schedule patient's future visits.
• Observe under 6 physical therapists and 7 physical therapist assistants while they perform manual therapy, modalities, traction, and progress measurements with patients.

Athletic Trainer - Student at Muskingum University (2014-08 – 2018-05)

• Clinical experience with football, women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, women's volleyball, indoor men's and women's track and field, and wrestling.
• Experience with working with an electronic medical records system such as SportsWare.
• Experience with organizing pre-participation physicals, collecting paperwork, and administering baseline neurocognitive testing including ImPACT and SCAT Testing.
• Knowledgeable in HIPAA regulations.
• Completed over 1000 clinical hours as a student athletic trainer.

Doctor of Physical Therapy in Physical Therapy – University of Dayton (2022-05)

Bachelor of Art in Athletic Training – University of Muskingum (2018-05)