Siskin Hospital is celebrating National Rehabilitation Week Sept. 12-16, with a hospital-wide music theme.
Chattanooga is a fun-loving city and Siskin Hospital is filled with fun-loving people who do serious work for our community. This week, we celebrate the Siskin Hospital mission and more than 25 years of serving Chattanooga with the “Rhythm of Rehab Week.” Each department in the hospital is decorated as a different artist, genre, or decade: Marketing is “1950s,” Food Services is “The Temptations,” Inpatient Therapy is “Bonnaroo,” and many more music-related motifs.
National Rehabilitation Week is an opportunity for Siskin Hospital to celebrate the field we work in, to educate others and ourselves about this field, and to recognize the many individuals whose lives have been touched by physical medicine and rehabilitation.
There are numerous entertaining activities planned for the week. Please check out the schedule below for details on the celebrations! Also, visit our website at www.SiskinRehab.org for a full schedule of events.
Monday
Employee Breakfast 6 - 9:00 a.m. – Employees pick up Rehab Week Ribbons, a Schedule of Activities, and get info on the Team Building Game that will take them throughout the “Rhythm of Rehab Week” sites in Siskin Hospital.
Tuesday
Siskin Hospital “cheerleaders” will travel through the therapy gyms to visit and pose for photos with our patients from9 – 11:00 a.m.
“Siskin’s Got Talent” presents our gifted in-house employee vocalists, who will participate in the Rehab Week Singing Talent Competition from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday
Organizers hope to hit all the right notes when the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra brings its Instrument Petting Zoo to visit with patients from 9 – 11:00 a.m.
The entire hospital will enjoy an Employee Luncheon in the Leisure Park – dressed in music-themed attire for theEmployee Costume Contest. The “Siskin’s Got Talent”finalists will perform for the grand prize. It’s sure to be a blast!!
Thursday
Winners of the Best Decorated Department, critiqued by the “Walk the Line” judges who make the rounds from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m., will receive a prize cookie tray.
“Hound Dog” Good Times from 2 – 4:00 p.m. with thePatients’ Party. This is sure to be a more fun than a “Cheeseburger in Paradise” on “Blueberry Hill”!
Friday
Employees will be dressed in Rehab Week t-shirts and jeans and will be treated to a variety of snacks throughout the day!
Throughout the week
Local musicians, from a Barbershop Quartet to a harpist to the CSO’s Instrument Petting Zoo, will be on hand to entertain staff and patients alike with their distinctive styles of music.
There will be a clothing drive for the Patient Clothes Closet, partially funded by employee ticket sales to the Talent Show.
Diners in The Public Dining Room will enjoy musical menu items.
If you would like to celebrate Chattanooga, especially the work that is done at Siskin Hospital, stop by and join the fun. Organizers are privileged to serve our patients during this fun-filled week.