Brooklyn Center and Centers Health Care Welcomes Prominent Physiatrist Richard J. Batka, MD as Medical Consultant

Highly Respected & Published Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physician to Help Strengthen the 281-Bed Skilled Nursing Facility Therapy Department in Crowne Heights.

NEW YORK and BROOKYLN, N.Y., Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Brooklyn Center, the 281-bed skilled nursing facility on Buffalo Avenue in the Crowne Heights section in Brooklyn, is welcoming Richard J. Batka, MD, NYU Langone's Rusk Rehabilitation highly-esteemed physiatrist to their therapy team. 

Dr. Batka will be working in-house currently four days a week seeing new and re-admitted residents as well as referrals from nursing and rehabilitation. Brooklyn Center therapy department will be in close communications with Dr. Batka and will be working with him with any recommendations and orders regarding the status of patients. Additionally, Dr. Batka will also be communicating with the facility's medical team associated with rehabilitation and nursing for all pain management consultation and assisting in referring residents to rehab. All in all, Dr. Batka is to work with both short-term and long-term care patients to make sure these residents are getting the most out of the disciplines that the facility has to offer in terms of physical, occupational and speech therapy.

"We are very proud to welcome Dr. Batka here as part of our Brooklyn Center team," said Mike Forzano, VP of Therapy Services at Centers Health Care and Sigma Health Rehab. "Having Dr. Batka work with our Brooklyn Center residents vastly increases our strengths in rehabilitation therapy due to his work with his NYU Langone's Rusk Rehabilitation patients."

About Brooklyn Center and Centers Health Care

Brooklyn Center, part of the Centers Health Care family, is a major 281-bed skilled nursing facility in Crowne Heights, Brooklyn, offering state-of-the-art care in post-acute care and the best rehabilitation therapy in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, NY. The rehabilitation department provides short-term and long-term care alongside comfortable accommodations and refined amenities. Centers Health Care is one of the largest and most complete post-acute health care organizations in the northeast. The company is a premier network of skilled nursing, rehabilitation and senior care services with 45 skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities in locations in New York and New Jersey. 

For more information about Centers Health Care, please visit www.centershealthcare.com

Contact: Jeff R. Jacomowitz
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SOURCE Centers Health Care