Theresa Gates

Founding Partner/Chief Executive Officer, Administrator, Beyond Home Health Care Services, LLC

Theresa Gates, PT, COS-C, is the Founding Partner and Administrator for Beyond Home Health Care in Jacksonville. She has extensive experience in all aspects of home health business development, clinical program development, operational management, cost-effective care, and quality management, and performance improvement. Theresa has been a licensed physical therapist for over 25 years and has served as secretary for the American Physical Therapy Association's (APTA) Home Health Section and chairperson of the membership development committee for the home health section of the APTA. Theresa currently serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Home Care Association of Florida. She is a national home care consultant, providing education and consulting services for home health agencies in the areas of quality assurance, staff retention and development, due diligence, clinical management, operational assessments, and therapy utilization management. Theresa also enjoys providing presentations at the state and national level on the topics of rehab therapy utilization, clinical program development, OASIS, staff retention, quality care outcomes and, now, emergency and hazard preparedness.