Minnie Hamilton Health Care System works with Odyssey Rehabilitation to provide occupational and speech therapy services at Grantsville locations.
Services expand to acute care, swing bed, long term care, and outpatient services ranging from birth to adult. West Virginia Birth to Three services are also offered as an outpatient clinical setting.
Speech Therapy
Speech therapy services cover a variety of disorders including dysphagia, cognitive communication deficits, CVA’s, receptive and expressive language delays, phonological disorders, downs syndrome, stuttering, apraxia of speech, autism and alterative augmentative communication devices.
Additional trainings have been completed with assessment and intervention of Beckman Oral Motor Protocol, Autism Academy, PECS, and ongoing continuing education services to implement overall best evidence based practice therapy.
Occupational therapy
Occupational therapy services work with a wide variety of clients from pediatric through geriatric population to increase independence and quality of life through functional activities such as dressing, bathing, eating, etc. Services can further assist people affected by strokes, orthopedic difficulties such as but not limited to hip and knee replacement, COPD, cognition, CHF, sensory integration deficits, fine and gross motor delays, and other conditions which limit previous levels of function.
Department of Transportation (DOT)/Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) Exams
- Schedule an appointment with a certified CDL/DOT provider.
- Complete the physical form in advance of the appointment by either:
- Asking registration for the form to be mailed to the patient in advance of the scheduled appointment.
- Downloading the form from the DOT website (MCSA-5875 form) and completing prior to scheduled appointment.
- Arrive early to scheduled appointment to complete form prior to being evaluated by clinic staff.
- Patients who do not have form completed at time of scheduled appointment, may expect their appointment to be rescheduled, as this delays the clinic staff while waiting on the patient to complete the form.
- Bring an accurate list of current medications taken from all providers and over the counter medications.
- Expect to provide a urine specimen during the physical
- Expect to undergo a hearing and vision evaluation along with their physical evaluation.
- Patients are encouraged to see their Primary Care Provider (PCP) who manages their general care, at least 2 weeks prior to their CDL/DOT physical, and provide a note statement from their PCP of the status of their chronic medical conditions (examples: Hypertension, Diabetes, Heart Conditions, Neurologic Conditions, etc). As, uncontrolled chronic medical problems/conditions can affect the length of renewal date of the patient’s CDL/DOT physical certificate.
- Federal guidelines are in place that the certified providers must follow in order for patients to successfully pass a CDL/DOT physical.
- Following the CDL/DOT physical exam, the general results of the exam is entered into a federal DOT electronic database.
- The original completed exam form and patient/driver certification are provided directly to the patient.
Printable PDF of CDL/DOT physical process


