What draws someone back to the place where they experienced one of life's most challenging moments? For Becki Bushnell and Meredith Berkowitz, Craig Hospital represents not only where their spinal cord injury rehabilitation journey began, but also where their professional lives found purpose. Becki, approaching her 17th anniversary as a clinical care manager, candidly shares how she "hated Craig" during her rehabilitation following an injury at age 15. She describes herself as "the most terr...

Turning trash into treasure might sound like a fairy tale, but at Craig Hospital, it's everyday reality. For nearly six years, this pioneering healthcare facility has been transforming food waste into "soil-saving gold," diverting an impressive 100,000 pounds of compost annually from landfills. The magic happens through a grassroots effort led by 44 dedicated staff members who maintain ten strategically placed compost bins throughout the hospital. Media production specialist Tyler Smith and ...

What if the words you needed vanished just when you needed them most? For nearly 2 million Americans living with aphasia, this isn't a hypothetical—it's daily life. Aphasia strips away the ability to speak, understand, read, or write without affecting intelligence. Behind every struggle to communicate lies a person who knows exactly what they want to say but can't access the words. This disconnect between thought and expression represents the fundamental challenge people with aphasia face. ...

When resilience meets healing, extraordinary stories emerge. This episode unfolds the riveting journey of Craig grad Dave Liniger, the real estate giant who founded RE/MAX. His physical therapist from Craig Hospital, Stephanie Beinecke, joins the narrative, sharing her perspective on the power of therapy and resilience. Together, their testimonies celebrate the transformative encounters at Craig, where patients and staff alike forge an unbreakable bond, channeling unwavering support into ever...

In the first episode of our "History of Craig" series, we looked at Craig's early days and focused on the man who founded it all - Frank Craig. In this episode, we pick up where we left off and dive into Craig's origins. We go from 1914, the year of Frank Craig's passing, up to 1954 and the real start of the Craig we know today. While the focus was still on tuberculosis up until 1954, those in-between years were incredibly important to ensuring Craig could survive as a non-profit institu...

We teamed up with two members of the Adaptive Transportation Program – Barry Doyle and Natalie Uyeno – to try our skills on the adaptive driving simulator while answering trivia questions aimed to distract us. You’ll hear from Barry and Natalie on how we did on the virtual course (spoiler alert: not great) and learn about why it’s so easy to become distracted on the road, even while engaged in basic things like listening to the radio or talking with someone in the car or on the phone. You’ll ...

We all learned during new hire orientation that Craig Hospital traces its roots back to Frank Craig, who established a tuberculosis colony in Colorado in the early 1900s. You may have also seen his black-and-white photo in the 1W corridor on our history wall. But do you know anything else about him and the founding of our hospital?It turns out, not so surprisingly, that Craig Hospital was founded by one really impressive person, who might possibly have moonlighted as a comedian in his free ti...

To shower you with love on Valentine’s Day, we asked Sereno Bruzgo, president of the Craig Hospital Foundation, to share a few love letters from patients and families.We’ve always known that many of our patients leave Craig profoundly grateful for the dedicated work our staff put in to helping them achieve their best possible outcomes – and we have it in writing! The Craig Hospital Foundation team handpicked a few notes they received that highlight the amazing impact our hospital has on those...

We speak with Craig’s director of therapeutic recreation and Operation TBI Freedom about his involvement with adaptive sports for over two decades. We also have some cringe-worthy dad jokes sprinkled in throughout, courtesy of Tom and one of the podcast’s co-hosts.------------------Craig Hospital in Denver, Colorado, is a world-renowned rehabilitation hospital that specializes exclusively in the neurorehabilitation and research of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and brain injury (BI). ...

In celebration of the most wonderful time of the year, Craig’s CEO Jandel Allen-Davis joined the podcast to answer some holiday-related questions. Who on our staff is most like Buddy the Elf? What new holiday tradition should we bring to Craig? What’s the weirdest white elephant gift Jandel has ever received? What would Jandel put in a snow globe? Let’s find out!------------------Craig Hospital in Denver, Colorado, is a world-renowned rehabilitation hospital that specializes exclusively in th...