{"id":110837,"date":"2022-09-19T13:29:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T20:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=110837"},"modified":"2022-09-19T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T00:40:05","slug":"palmdale-regional-celebrates-national-rehabilitation-awareness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2022\/09\/19\/palmdale-regional-celebrates-national-rehabilitation-awareness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale Regional celebrates &#8216;National Rehabilitation Awareness Week&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_88831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88831\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Palmdale-regional-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88831\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Palmdale-regional-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Palmdale-regional-1.jpg 864w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Palmdale-regional-1-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Palmdale-regional-1-768x412.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[File]<\/figcaption><\/figure>PALMDALE &#8211;\u00a0Palmdale Regional Medical Center is celebrating <em>National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, <\/em>from Sept. 19-25.<\/p>\n<p>To mark the event, Palmdale Regional is partnering with the Triumph Foundation to host an inclusive<em>\u00a0\u2018Wheelchair Rugby Clinic\u2019 o<\/em>n Friday, Sept. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Hospital staff and members of the local disability community will play games together on a level playing field to raise awareness about people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event will bring people together of all abilities\u2014able-bodied and disabled alike\u2014to take part in a fun activity, build friendships and teamwork,\u201d said Triumph Foundation founder <strong>Andrew Skinner<\/strong>, who suffered a spinal cord injury in a 2004 snowboarding accident and founded the organization in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The public is welcome to attend the Wheelchair Rugby Clinic, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, at the front main parking lot of Palmdale Regional Medical Center, located at 38600 Medical Center Drive.\u00a0For more information on the Triumph Foundation, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/triumph-foundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.Triumph-Foundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6><em>[Information via news release from Palmdale Regional Medical Center.]<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8211;\u00a0Palmdale Regional Medical Center is celebrating National Rehabilitation Awareness Week, from Sept. 19-25. To mark the event, Palmdale Regional is partnering with the Triumph Foundation to host an inclusive\u00a0\u2018Wheelchair Rugby Clinic\u2019 on Friday, Sept. 23. Hospital staff and members of the local disability community will play games together on a level playing field to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1499,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110838,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110837\/revisions\/110838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}