APTA Acute Care

🎆Happy Independence Day from APTA Acute Care!

The APTA Acute Care Executive Committee and APTA Acute Care Office wish you and your loved ones a joyful, safe, and relaxing Fourth of July weekend. Thank you for all you do to advance acute care physical therapy and care for patients every day.

Please note that the APTA Acute Care Office will be closed on Friday, July 3, in observance of the holiday. We look forward to assisting you when we return.

Have a wonderful and safe holiday! ❤️🤍💙

📚 Now Available: Journal of Acute Care Physical Therapy – Volume 17, Issue 3

The latest issue of the Journal of Acute Care Physical Therapy (JACPT) has arrived!

Stay up to date with the newest research, clinical insights, and evidence-based practice advancements that are shaping the future of acute care physical therapy. Whether you're a clinician, educator, researcher, or student, JACPT provides valuable knowledge to support excellence in patient care.

🔗 Explore the latest issue: https://www.ovid.com/jnls/jacpt

📢 Call for Abstracts: CSM 2027

Share your research, innovations, and clinical expertise with the physical therapy community at CSM 2027!

APTA Acute Care encourages clinicians, researchers, educators, residents, and students to submit platform and poster abstracts highlighting advances in acute care physical therapy practice, education, outcomes, and research.

🗓 Submission Deadline: July 15, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT
📬 Notification Date: October 2026

This is your opportunity to contribute to the future of acute care PT, showcase your work, and connect with colleagues from across the profession.

Start preparing your submission today! https://csm.apta.org/programming/csm-submissions

Acute care innovation rarely starts with a perfect plan. It often starts with a clinician asking, “Could we do this better?”

In this special episode of Acute Conversations, Dr. Leo Arguelles takes us inside Bridge the Gap 2026 for conversations with the clinicians, educators and organizers moving acute care practice forward. Hear ideas on clinical education, learning health systems, post-intensive care syndrome, discharge communication, simulation and emergency department practice.

Dr. Nicole Neveau also joins Leo for an interprofessional conversation with members of the St. Louis University PICS clinic team.

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/3u6wysb7
Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/4d8effm7