Therapist receives leadership award

Physical therapist Carolyn Bloom, owner of Bloom & Associates Therapy in Lawrence, Eudora and Topeka, last month received the 2008 National Legislative Leadership Award from the American Physical Therapy Association.

Bloom received the award last month in Washington, D.C., recognizing her for her patient-advocacy efforts seeking improved Medicare payments.

Bloom serves on the Executive Committee of the Kansas Physical Therapy Association. She also recently was reappointed by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to another four-year term on the Physical Therapy Advisory Council of the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts.