Rachel Prusynski
@doc-doc-pru.bsky.social
DPT, PhD | Assist Prof, University of Washington Rehab Med.
Physical therapist | Post-Acute Care Policy | Medicare | Co-Director of Advancing Health Services & Policy in Rehabilitation Lab: https://sites.uw.edu/aspirelab/
My Opinions Only
Physical therapist | Post-Acute Care Policy | Medicare | Co-Director of Advancing Health Services & Policy in Rehabilitation Lab: https://sites.uw.edu/aspirelab/
My Opinions Only
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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👻 Boo! Our final October issue of #PTJournal is now available here: academic.oup.com/ptj/issue/10...
🎃 Headlined by an editorial on loneliness and disability from editorial board member @jrayfalvey.bsky.social articles also cover:
🎃 Headlined by an editorial on loneliness and disability from editorial board member @jrayfalvey.bsky.social articles also cover:
Validate User
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November 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
👻 Boo! Our final October issue of #PTJournal is now available here: academic.oup.com/ptj/issue/10...
🎃 Headlined by an editorial on loneliness and disability from editorial board member @jrayfalvey.bsky.social articles also cover:
🎃 Headlined by an editorial on loneliness and disability from editorial board member @jrayfalvey.bsky.social articles also cover:
APTA WA Fall Conference 2025
By Washington Physical Therapy Political Action Committee
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October 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Staffing in skilled nursing homes has been tough. Recent federal policy changes may be making things worse. Dr. Prusynski (@doc-doc-pru.bsky.social) discusses these issues with Kitsap Sun.
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UW CHWS Affiliate Investigator Quoted in Kitsap Sun Article on Staffing Challenges in Skilled Nursing Facilities – UW CHWS
The UW CHWS is responsible for the findings resulting from research conducted through the Center. Contents of UW CHWS research products are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, funding sources.
familymedicine.uw.edu
August 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Staffing in skilled nursing homes has been tough. Recent federal policy changes may be making things worse. Dr. Prusynski (@doc-doc-pru.bsky.social) discusses these issues with Kitsap Sun.
familymedicine.uw.edu/chws/2025/08...
familymedicine.uw.edu/chws/2025/08...
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Have you seen the new #AcuteCare #ClinicalPracticeGuideline??
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@aptaofficial.bsky.social #CPG
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@aptaofficial.bsky.social #CPG
A Core Set of Outcome Measures to Assess Physical Function for Adults Participating in Physical Therapist Treatment in the Hospital: A Clinical Practice Guideline
ABSTRACTImportance. Outcome measures (OMs) are an integral part of physical therapist practice and implementation can have a multifaceted effect on care de
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July 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Have you seen the new #AcuteCare #ClinicalPracticeGuideline??
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@aptaofficial.bsky.social #CPG
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@aptaofficial.bsky.social #CPG
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There is no evidence that Trump is in the Epstein files.
There is no evidence that Trump isn't in the Epstein files.
Therefore, Trump should be sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
There is no evidence that Trump isn't in the Epstein files.
Therefore, Trump should be sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
July 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
There is no evidence that Trump is in the Epstein files.
There is no evidence that Trump isn't in the Epstein files.
Therefore, Trump should be sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
There is no evidence that Trump isn't in the Epstein files.
Therefore, Trump should be sent to a gulag in El Salvador.
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#PTJournal is committed to publishing #ClinicalPracticeGuidelines to advance evidence-based practice in physical therapy and rehabilitation.
Learn more about how @aptaofficial.bsky.social supports member academies and sections in developing #CPGs:
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#PTSky 🧪
Learn more about how @aptaofficial.bsky.social supports member academies and sections in developing #CPGs:
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#PTSky 🧪
Clinical Practice Guidelines: Present, Past, and Future
The American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) supports its member academies and sections in the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) by fa
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July 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
#PTJournal is committed to publishing #ClinicalPracticeGuidelines to advance evidence-based practice in physical therapy and rehabilitation.
Learn more about how @aptaofficial.bsky.social supports member academies and sections in developing #CPGs:
academic.oup.com/ptj/article/...
#PTSky 🧪
Learn more about how @aptaofficial.bsky.social supports member academies and sections in developing #CPGs:
academic.oup.com/ptj/article/...
#PTSky 🧪
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👂 Have you heard about the latest workforce projections for PTs? 📈
🎙️ Don't miss our podcast interview with authors of "Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037: A New Approach Using Microsimulation."
www.apta.org/apta-and-you...
🎙️ Don't miss our podcast interview with authors of "Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037: A New Approach Using Microsimulation."
www.apta.org/apta-and-you...
Podcast | PTJ Author Interview: Projected Physical Therapist Shortages Through 2037
Dall and Manal are co-authors of the article "Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037: A New Approach Using Microsimulation.”
www.apta.org
May 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
👂 Have you heard about the latest workforce projections for PTs? 📈
🎙️ Don't miss our podcast interview with authors of "Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037: A New Approach Using Microsimulation."
www.apta.org/apta-and-you...
🎙️ Don't miss our podcast interview with authors of "Current and Projected Future Supply and Demand for Physical Therapists From 2022 to 2037: A New Approach Using Microsimulation."
www.apta.org/apta-and-you...
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So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
That would be Secretary of Education Linda McMahon who's being sued for aiding and abetting systemic child molestation, just to be clear
Amended complaint has been filed in the ring boys sexual abuse lawsuit against WWE, TKO, Vince McMahon, and Linda McMahon. Three new plaintiffs have joined the original five, one of which accuses Pat Patterson of also participating in the abuse.
PDF link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
PDF link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
When I visited Poland in 2018, I learned more about how the #Nazi party targeted German universities, scientists, and academics almost immediately after coming to power.
April 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
When I visited Poland in 2018, I learned more about how the #Nazi party targeted German universities, scientists, and academics almost immediately after coming to power.
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They got tired of fighting universities, only to have a powerful one (Harvard) fight back.
So they're going to just screw us all over in one fell swoop unless we all bow down and throw away DEI programming and students' rights to free speech.
So they're going to just screw us all over in one fell swoop unless we all bow down and throw away DEI programming and students' rights to free speech.
With each passing day, the agenda-driven interference with science intensifies.
We can't let the candle in the dark go out.
NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t... via @statnews
We can't let the candle in the dark go out.
NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t... via @statnews
NIH moving to ban all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts, document suggests
NIH appears to be preparing to prohibit the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies
www.statnews.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
They got tired of fighting universities, only to have a powerful one (Harvard) fight back.
So they're going to just screw us all over in one fell swoop unless we all bow down and throw away DEI programming and students' rights to free speech.
So they're going to just screw us all over in one fell swoop unless we all bow down and throw away DEI programming and students' rights to free speech.
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As of today, the NIH is saying it will deny funds to institutions that have any DEI programs.
Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.
Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.
NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts
NIH prohibited the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies
www.statnews.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
As of today, the NIH is saying it will deny funds to institutions that have any DEI programs.
Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.
Segregationists are so threatened that marginalized people *may* have opportunities for advancement that they are willing to shut down universities and the scientific enterprise over it.
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a nice crowd for Bernie and AOC on a Monday night in *Nampa, Idaho*
April 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
a nice crowd for Bernie and AOC on a Monday night in *Nampa, Idaho*
Bravo to colleagues at @uwsph.bsky.social for sharing their stories in @newyorker.com to highlight the negative human and economic impacts of the reckless, indiscriminate, wasteful, and partisan cancellation of important funding for science:
www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...
www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...
“I Am Seeing My Community of Researchers Decimated”
Across the country, the Trump Administration’s assault on public institutions and its cuts to government funding are forcing scientists to abandon their work and the patients who benefit from it.
www.newyorker.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Bravo to colleagues at @uwsph.bsky.social for sharing their stories in @newyorker.com to highlight the negative human and economic impacts of the reckless, indiscriminate, wasteful, and partisan cancellation of important funding for science:
www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...
www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...
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During COVID, we learned the hard way that nearly all our hospital PPE i.e. masks, gowns, gloves comes from China.
A 104% tariff could send us straight back to pandemic-level shortages or drive healthcare costs even higher.🫠
A 104% tariff could send us straight back to pandemic-level shortages or drive healthcare costs even higher.🫠
April 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
During COVID, we learned the hard way that nearly all our hospital PPE i.e. masks, gowns, gloves comes from China.
A 104% tariff could send us straight back to pandemic-level shortages or drive healthcare costs even higher.🫠
A 104% tariff could send us straight back to pandemic-level shortages or drive healthcare costs even higher.🫠
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Just spotted this paper on nursing home ownership changes and staffing. TLDR: ownership changes ==> staffing decreases. (You should read the full article!)
Nice work by @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social @biancafrogner.bsky.social and others at @uwchws.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Nice work by @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social @biancafrogner.bsky.social and others at @uwchws.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Impacts of Skilled Nursing Facility Change of Ownership on Staffing: A Staggered Difference-in-Difference Analysis
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are experiencing significant regulatory scrutiny. Recent federal rules established guidelines for increased transpar…
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April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Just spotted this paper on nursing home ownership changes and staffing. TLDR: ownership changes ==> staffing decreases. (You should read the full article!)
Nice work by @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social @biancafrogner.bsky.social and others at @uwchws.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Nice work by @doc-doc-pru.bsky.social @biancafrogner.bsky.social and others at @uwchws.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I'm on a listserv to receive weekly funding opportunities from the #NIH, which is usually long and descriptive. This is what it says now. I've NEVER seen it like this before. #SaveOurScience
April 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I'm on a listserv to receive weekly funding opportunities from the #NIH, which is usually long and descriptive. This is what it says now. I've NEVER seen it like this before. #SaveOurScience
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How it started // how it's going
April 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How it started // how it's going
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Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."
April 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Murphy: "Newsflash: These guys are incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. We hired a weekend Fox News host with no diplomatic or management experience with a checkered personal history of abuse and alcoholism to be our chief national security official. And it's going very badly."
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If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
April 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Steering, Switching, and the Medicare Advantage “Trap”
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Steering, Switching, and the Medicare Advantage “Trap”
This Viewpoint discusses the differences between Medicare Advantage (MA) and traditional Medicare and the trade-offs between service and convenience that beneficiaries make when selecting MA; highligh...
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March 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Steering, Switching, and the Medicare Advantage “Trap”
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If your research has been affected by the administration’s illegal and immoral cuts to federal funding, please consider submitting your experience to the American Association of Medical Colleges:
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Microsoft Forms
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March 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If your research has been affected by the administration’s illegal and immoral cuts to federal funding, please consider submitting your experience to the American Association of Medical Colleges:
forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
March 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.