Learn Why Our Team Chose FOX

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Director of Regulatory Affairs Megan Valenzano, PT, DPT, GCS- The fact we work under Medicare Part B is one of the unique things that make us great and the fact that we see people in their home.

Electronic Health Record Clinical Director Rachel Read, MS, OTR/L, CAPS- I did a rotation here as a student and I just really enjoyed it.

Senior Regional Director Jeff Falini, PT, DPT, GCS- It started in when I was a second year at Thomas Jefferson University.

Regional Director Steven Bridwell, PT, DPT- I did an affiliation when I was a student fresh out school. It was a totally unique setting in comparison to the typical outpatient orthopedics or the hospital setting.

Regional Director Peter Marzano, PT, DPT- Therapists make the decisions.

Regional Director Raymond Sileo, PT, DPT, LSVT- The autonomy is awesome. It’s freedom. Like, when I get wake up here today, I have no idea what my day is going to entail.

Senior Regional Director Jeff Falini, PT, DPT, GCS- I was in the performance lab, and at the time, there’s was a program called FOX Geri which is more like our quality assurance program now.

One of my professors who I did a lot of graduate work for at Jefferson was the statistician behind FOX Geri. He had mentioned to me there’s this great practice. I always knew I wanted to be in geriatrics.

He said, “Well, hey, I got a guy coming in. His name is Tim Fox. He’s an alumni. You should meet him when he comes in.”

We worked in a cubicle. When I heard Tim come in, he said hello to Doctor Besser. Dr. Besser said, “Hey, I got a guy I want you to meet.”

Not knowing that I was right around the corner, not knowing that I was within earshot, he said, “He wants to be you. He wants to work for you one day.”

Tim immediately said, “No. You mean he wants to work with me.”

As a 23-year-old, 24-year-old kid at the time, I said, “Wow. This guy’s super successful. He’s killing it across the board with the private practice and such a concept.”

Then, he was humble enough to say that he wanted to work with someone with my lack of tenure, so to speak. So, I was immediately brought in there.

Regional Director Steven Bridwell, PT, DPT- I saw something unique. It was different. I was like, “I want to be a part of this. I like the energy.” I from a student to mentee to team lead to regional director.

Electronic Health Record Clinical Director Rachel Read, MS, OTR/L, CAPS- It was great flexibility. I learned a lot.

When I left here and did my second rotation at a hospital, it was just not the setting that I wanted to be in.

I always thought I wanted to do pediatrics, but I really gravitated towards the geriatric field. It was just too structured.

I loved the autonomy, the flexibility that we had at FOX. And also the people – the culture was way different here than it was at the hospital.

You know, at the hospital, I felt like I was a student. As opposed to when I came here, I was a student but I was treated as a colleague already. So, that’s why I decided to come to FOX. It was just a great FOX fit for me.

Regional Director Peter Marzano, PT, DPT- We’re able to give them our feedback, pivot on a dime with our treatments and how we operate because the therapists are the ones making the day-to-day decisions. It’s really pretty awesome.

Director of Regulatory Affairs Megan Valenzano, PT, DPT, GCS- When you say what you do, some people say, “Oh, so you’re Part A.”

No, we’re not. We’re not constrained by those rules.

We’re able to treat people they way we would want to treat them clinically and not have to worry about all of the other red tape that comes along with Medicare Part A sometimes.

It’s kind of a nice feeling to treat people with a plan I’ve put in place and I don’t have to answer to anyone else necessarily to create, which is a huge difference.

Regional Director Raymond Sileo, PT, DPT, LSVT- So it could be just sitting all day with clinicians. It could be just sitting all day in a building. We meet with doctors. So, every day I sit down to eat breakfast, and, I have no idea what my day’s going to be like, but I know it’s going to be awesome because it’s never the same.

So, I used to be a director at an outpatient practice where I was in four walls for eight hours. I was 30 patients. I’m like, “I can’t keep doing this. I’m going to burn out.”

So, I interviewed with FOX. I interviewed with two directors and I saw how happy they were. I’m like, “This is weird. You guys are too happy.”

One was there for seven years. One was there for eight years. They were way too happy. Something had to be weird with this place.

And he’s like, “No, everything is completely different every day. You’re never going to be bored – ever.”

I’m like, “Okay so if I’m here for 10 years, I’m never going to be bored?”

He’s like, “Eight years, I’ve been not bored.” I’m like, “alright, I’ve got to become part of this practice.”

So, I came down to headquarters from Manhattan – I’m a director there now – and I’m walking around, being introduced to everybody. Everyone has smiles. Everyone’s amped up.

I’m like, “There’s something in the water here. There’s something weird because everyone’s happy here. The two directors are happy. I have to become a part of this.”

So, the autonomy is just one part of it. It’s a great bonus. It just keeps me driving every day, knowing that it’s going to be different and I’m going to be helping people every day in different situations that’ll make me grow as a director, as a clinician because it’s never the same.