Our Story
The Reach story begins in 1995, with our founder Heather Batey. As a qualified, experienced Occupational Therapist, Heather understood that brain injury rehabilitation worked. That it delivered better outcomes for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Clients – as long as it was delivered in the right way.
But the limitations of the NHS meant that this treatment was often delivered in a hospital or residential care setting – an environment that is not appropriate for helping a person fully recover their independence. There had to be a more effective way. There was. Providing rehabilitation at home. A way of providing expert clinical treatment in Clients’ homes to maximise their rehabilitation potential, and give them back their much-needed independence.
It is like the old saying goes. Give someone a fish, and they’ll be fed for a day. Teach them how to fish, and they’ll feed themselves for the rest of their life.
Today Reach forms part of the portfolio of businesses in the handl Health and Wellbeing division. Heather has been joined by Sarah Preston in a General Manager role and Pete Clark, a fellow Clinical Director and Occupational Therapist.
Reach now offers all varieties of occupational therapy-based assessments and would welcome the opportunity to work more closely with all our Customers so that we can meet an ever-evolving need.
Reach’s story is one of teaching patients how to manage their own recovery. How to push themselves to achieve as much pre-injury function as possible. How to regain their own independence – and retain it.
It is a story with thousands of positive outcomes. And it’s a story that’s set to continue for years to come.