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Riverside Health System is announcing the delivery of first-rate cancer rehab services to survivors in Virginia, thanks to earning STAR Program® Certification.

Riverside Health System in Newport News, VA announced today that it has earned its STAR Program® Certification from the Massachusetts-based Oncology Rehab Partners, leading experts in the field of survivorship care Riverside Health System is leading the way by offering excellent cancer rehabilitation services to its patients through becoming STAR Program Certified.

STAR Program Certification uniquely qualifies facilities like Riverside Health System to offer premium Oncology Rehabilitation Services to survivors who suffer from debilitating side effects, caused by treatments

To receive its certification, Riverside Health System executed Oncology Rehab Partners’ unparalleled STAR Program Certification, a conventional medicine and evidence-based standardized model of oncology rehabilitation service delivery, successfully implementing the program’s evaluation and treatment protocols and rehabilitation training. These services are covered by health insurance providers and will be offered to patients by a knowledgeable and sensitive medical staff that is specially trained to work with survivors of all forms of cancer.

Specialty caregivers from a pool of disciplines-including physicians, physical and occupational therapists, speech pathologists, dieticians, mental health professionals, and nurses-will work together with each patient on a personalized rehabilitation plan to increase strength and energy, alleviate pain, and improve daily function and quality of life.

Riverside Health System is proud to announce our certification as a STAR Program® provider, benefiting hundreds of cancer surviving patients throughout the Peninsula, the Northern Neck and the Eastern Shore, through physical, occupational and speech therapy.

The STAR (Survivorship Training and Rehabilitation) Program is designed to offer premier rehab services for those currently or previously diagnosed with cancer. Riverside Health System is the first health system in Southeastern Virginia to become accredited in cancer survivorship. For more information on Riverside’s innovative cancer survivorship care plans, please contact (757) 243-2174

STAR Program Certification from Oncology Rehab Partners provides hospitals and cancer centers with the tools needed to quickly and effectively implement an exceptional survivorship care plan.

Oncology Rehab Partners co-founder Julie Silver, MD, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and herself a cancer survivor, “We are very proud of Riverside Health System’s STAR Program Certification! They have begun to close the gap between survivors’ need for cancer rehabilitation services and their access to these services!”
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