Eastern Michigan University (EMU) is offering its annual scholarship to a student currently enrolled in the College of Health and Human Services and is seeking a degree in O&P. An EMU panel will select the scholarship recipient based upon the best 250-word essay submitted on the topic “How does compliant documentation influence orthotic and prosthetic patient care?”
Funded by the Dale Berry Endowment Fund, the scholarship helps to educate and prepare future O&P clinicians to produce quality, concise, and compliant clinical documentation. “This scholarship will provide a positive impact on the students and an immeasurable impact on the patients they serve in the future,” said Rebecca Spragg, MSPO, CPO, associate professor and & program coordinator at EMU.
Dale Berry, CP, CP(c), FAAOP, served his prosthetic residency in Edmonton, Alberta at Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital, where he learned the importance of clinical documentation when it comes to providing quality patient care. He moved to the United States in 1986. In his career, he has served 20 years as vice president of clinical operations of one of the country’s largest providers of O&P, keeping his focus balanced between patient care, documentation, compliance, and operational controls. Today, he is owner of Prosthetic Xpert Consultation.
The Dale Berry Orthotics and Prosthetics Endowed Scholarship was established to promote the essential relationship between quality clinical documentation and quality patient care.
For more information and to apply, visit the website.
