Meet Our Therapy Department

Lisa Beyers, Director of Rehabilitation
Lisa has worked in long term care for eighteen years. She has owned and managed therapy contract services and outpatient clinics since 1993. In 1998 she joined forces with Progressive Health Rehabilitation and served as the Vice President of contract services until 2003 when she began consulting as a rehab specialist and licensed health facility administrator. Lisa currently manages our in-house therapy department. “This is the most diverse and talented team of therapists I have ever worked with."

Kristy Davidson,  P.T.
Kristy became a part of The Heritage Center family her junior year in high school. She later completed her C.N.A. and continued here for 7 years until pursuing a bachelor’s degree from University of Evansville in Physical Therapy and completing her Masters from University of Indianapolis in 1999.

Kristy has worked in a variety of health care settings including home care, hospital acute care, industrial and occupational medicine and long term care. She specializes in a manual therapy technique called myofascial release. Kristy was born and raised on the west side of Evansville where she currently resides with her husband and daughters. In her leisure time she enjoys supporting her daughter’s high school activities which include basketball, softball and track.

Kristy returned to The Heritage Center in 2007 and was impressed to see so many familiar faces from nearly 20 years ago.

“I enjoy working with a team whose primary goal is to provide a caring atmosphere and meet the individual needs of each of our residents”

Amy Herr,  P.T.
Amy graduated from Indiana University in 1996 with a B.S. in physical therapy and in 2003 received a Master of Health Science from University of Indianapolis. She has worked primarily with orthopedics and geriatrics. Amy grew up in Ft. Branch and currently resides in Darmstadt with her husband and two sons. She is an active volunteer at her son’s school and enjoys spending time with her family outdoors and traveling.  Amy has been a leader on our team since 2007.

“I enjoy working here because of the variety of conditions we treat. I feel especially blessed to work with such talented and experienced co-workers”.

Alyssa Edwards, P.T.A.
Alyssa graduated from University of Indianapolis with an associate degree for physical therapist assistant in 2008. She specializes in geriatric rehab with an emphasis on dementia care. While at The Heritage Center, she has served on the fall prevention team and has a passion for providing ideas to make our facility safer and reduce fall risk for our residents.

Alyssa was born and raised in Evansville, attended Mater Dei High School where she played varsity volleyball. In her leisure time she enjoys boating and playing with her two dogs. She enjoys the tight-knit atmosphere at The Heritage Center and strives to build close relationships with her patients and fellow staff members.

“It is a great day when you see a patient meet their goals and you know it will give them a better quality of life” 

Sherry Kuhn, P.T.A.
Sherry graduated from Madisonville Community College in May of 1998. She worked in outpatient therapy for two years and has ten years of experience in Skilled Nursing Facilities. She has served a couple of years as a rehab department manager. Sherry enjoys spending time with her husband, four sons and three wonderful grandchildren. Her hobbies also include country dancing.

“I have developed many friendships with my co-workers here at The Heritage Center. It is rewarding to work with such professional and knowledgeable therapist”.

Renee Gough, OTR
Renee Gough graduated from the University of Southern Indiana in 2004 for Occupational Therapy. Renee chose Occupational Therapy as a career because she wanted to help improve the quality of life for seniors and individuals much like her grandmother and niece who has cerebral palsy.  She has training with dementia patients related to fall prevention, behavior management, and creative treatment techniques to improve their quality of life. She has training/ experience with modalities for pain management and stroke rehabilitation. She also has extensive experience with wheelchair positioning to improve comfort, safety, independence with mobility, and decreasing pain. She chose Heritage Center because of its caring and dedicated staff members.

Speech Therapy

Stephanie Bosecker, M.A., CCC-SLP
Stephanie has been a Speech Language Pathologist for twelve years. She earned her Master’s degree from Indiana State University.  She has worked in many healthcare settings but her favorite is long term care. Stephanie feels a real connection to the residents and loves to hear stories about their lives.  Stephanie has been trained to work in many areas including cognition, expressive and receptive language, swallowing, apraxia, dysarthria and voice disorders.  She is Vital Stim certified in order to therapeutically increase strength and timing of the swallow for decreased risk of aspiration.

Stephanie is originally from this area but when growing up her family moved around the country.  She loves spending time with her husband and two daughters.  “The Heritage Center is the best place I have ever worked. They put the needs of the resident first. At The Heritage Center it is important that each resident is treated with dignity and respect, and the employees are treated the same way.”

Carla Ellison, M.A., CCC-SLP
Carla has sixteen years of experience as a Speech Language Pathologist. She earned her master’s degree from University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 1994. She has twelve years experience working with acute care rehabilitation gaining in depth experience with CVA, brain injury and other neurological disorders.

She has assisted individuals with speech/language deficits; cognitive-linguistic deficits and swallowing difficulties. She is certified in Nuero Muscular Electrical Stimulation (NMES/Vital Stim) for swallowing disorders. Carla’s dedication to her patients is evidenced by her involvement in facilitating a local Aphasia support group that met monthly for ten years.

Carla is married and the mother to two sons and one step-daughter. She enjoys being outdoors and spending time playing with her children.

“I enjoy working with the rehab and nursing team at The Heritage Center. We have a team approach to helping our resident’s achieve their maximal functional potential”

Jared Anslinger
Jared Anslinger is a 2008 graduate of the University of Southern Indiana.  He received his Bachelor of Science degree from USI in Physical Education with an emphasis in his studies on Business Management.  His lifelong hobby of playing soccer included playing four years of varsity soccer at the collegiate level while attending USI, joining his team in the journey into the GLVC Tournament twice.  Since graduation Jared has devoted his career to management of wellness programs at the YMCA, and ultimately found his passion for work in the therapy setting at the Heritage Center as the Therapy Liason.  Jared has also balanced his work with a strong sense of devotion to his family and love of the outdoors and Colts football.