Patients invited to see new clinic at Security Station

By Jeremy Weldon

It’s the same faces in a different place for Batesville’s Cornerstone Rehabilitation.

The outpatient physical therapy clinic that has served Panola County for the past 20 years from its location in the Medical Arts Building on Eureka has moved to a new home in the former Saverex Drugs building in the First Security shopping center.

“We’re offering the same great service we’ve offered for 20 years, just in a different spot,” said Andrew Jeffreys, clinical director at the office. “We felt like this was the right time to move and start off 2019 with a new look and a bigger and better place.”

Jeffreys said Cornerstone will add industrial rehab services during the expansion, including work reconditioning therapy and functional capacity exams for job placement, as well as pre/post employment exams.

Cornerstone Rehabilitation was founded in Water Valley by physical therapist Jennifer McGavock and athletic trainer Steve Thompson, who still owns the business. From that first location, Cornerstone expanded to Batesville and has since added clinics in Southaven, Hernando, and Senatobia.

Cornerstone will also continue to offer dry needling, a procedure similar to acupuncture, but generally used in different locations on the body. Jeffreys said an increasing number of physicians are prescribing the treatment in hopes of reducing the amount of opioids patients are taking for chronic pain.

“It’s a new technique that we are seeing a lot of doctors begin to use trying to help their patients get off the opioids that has become such an epidemic here,” he said.

Scott Heath, clinic manager, has been with Cornerstone from the company’s beginning and said the staff’s goal has always been to work with each patient on an individual basis to find the best treatment in conjunction with their doctor’s course of care.

Cornerstone will continue to accept Medicare, Medicaid, and almost every type of private insurance. “If we are not in their network, we give in-network benefits,” Jeffreys said. “We don’t turn anyone down based on insurance or ability to pay. We will work with insurance companies and co-pays and try to get each patient the best care they need.”

“We’ve been doing the same quality work with the same people for the past 20 plus years and we will keep up that same service here at our new spot,” Jeffreys said.

Cutline:     Employees of Cornerstone Rehabilitation are still decorating their new location behind First Security Bank. Pictured are (from left) office manager Bridgitt Anderson, technician Shelley Daugherty, clinical director Andrew Jeffreys, clinic manager Scott Heath, physical therapy assistant Will Gusmus, and athletic trainer Clayton Sibley.  (Jeremy Weldon)