WHO WE ARE
OUR CORE VALUES

Excellence
- Pleasure in the job while striving for perfection in the work.  

Integrity - when faced with a difficult decision, do what's right, honor truth, live that others can depend on you.

Compassion  - Giving is the secret of a healthy life.  Empathy, sincere concern, and the willingness to take action
to improve the lives of others.   
Rehab Associates was founded in 1975 by husband and wife - Gordon Allen, P.T. and Teri Allen, O.T.R.  Our
corporate growth and maturation has resulted in a facility that, over the past 34 years has developed a skills
and knowledge base that is second to none in the area.  Gordon developed Rehab Associates as an outpatient
rehab facility with primary focus on orthopedic and neuromotor disabilities.  Teri created Children’s Therapy
Center - a clinic devoted to the treatment of infants and children with mild to severe neuromotor development
disabilities.  Children’s Therapy Center maintains a website at
www.helpingyourchild.com.

Rehab Associates Chronology:
1974 - Gordon Allen begins teaching in the Physical Therapist Assistant  program   at Kellogg Community
College and continues in that position for the next eight years.

1975 - Rehab Associates is founded and continues the teaching services at KCC.     Rehab  Associates also
contracts with four local Skilled Nursing Facilities to provide P.T. services.

1976 -  Rehab Associates contracts with Visiting Nurse Services to provide the first in-home physical and
occupational therapy services in Calhoun County.  Expanding services from 35 visits in the fist year to over
1500 visits per year within the next four years.

1977 -  Speech therapy was added to the rehab services provided to VNS.

1977 -  Rehab Associates contracts with Community Hospital and Leila Hospital to establish rehabilitation
programs for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

1979 -  Rehab Associates contracts with Oaklawn Hospital to provide management services for their Physical
Therapy Department.  This continues for the next eight years.

1981 -  Rehab Associates establishes pediatric neurodevelopmental services at Oaklawn Hospital with Teri Allen
as Director.

1981 -  Rehab Associates opens a freestanding outpatient office.

1987 -  Children’s Therapy Center is founded as a subsidiary of Rehab Associates Rehab Associates
establishes the first Work Hardening program in Calhoun County.  This program quickly expands into it’s own
purpose modified, 1200 sq. ft. building and adds Functional Capacity Evaluations, and Job Site Assessments -
all still operating.

1990 -  Rehab Associates moves into a new 2500 sq. ft. office in the OakRidge Office Complex while Children’s
Therapy Center occupies another 1000 sq. ft in the same complex.  The two clinics have a total of seven
employees.

1992 -  Rehab Associates moves into a new, 5000 sq. ft. facility, adding two more P.T.s and another PT
Assistant.  Children’s Therapy Center takes over the 2500 sq. ft. office vacated by Rehab Associates.

1993 -  Becky Banaszak is hired as Office Manager.

1997 -  Rehab Associates installs a Swimex Pool on-site.

2000 -  Becky and Rob Banaszak join Gordon and Teri to become 50% owners of
Rehab Associates and Children’s Therapy Center.  

Present - Rehab Associates and Children’s Therapy Center continue to expand and add new programs.  We
currently have 13 employees plus additional contract consultants.