Blaser’s Physiotherapy and Acupuncture Clinic is pleased to announce that our East Clinic has expanded hours. Office hours are now from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon every morning except Friday, and from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. every afternoon. The East Clinic is located on C.F.B. Kingston at 32 Lundy's Lane, is wheelchair accessible and has free parking.
Blaser’s Physiotherapy Clinic is pleased to announce the opening of a second clinic in the east end of Kingston in the old Pittsburgh Township. Our East Clinic is located on C.F.B. Kingston in the Kingston Military Family Resource Centre(K.M.F.R.C.) at 32 Lundy’s Lane. We share administrative staff with the K.M.F.R.C. Health Centre.
Our East Clinic has four private treatment rooms and an exercise area. It is currently open every afternoon from 1:00 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. and we will be expanding clinic hours as demand necessitates. We are happy to provide out-patient orthopaedic physiotherapy services to members of the public, members of the military outsourced by the C.F.B. physiotherapy clinic, and military families.
Please call (613) 541-5010 Ext. 2251 to book an appointment.
Date: July 2006
Blaser’s Wins the Kingston This Week Platinum Award Again!
Blaser’s Physiotherapy Clinic is proud to announce it has once again won the Kingston This Week (KTW) platinum award in the category of Physiotherapy. For the second year in a row readers of KTW have voted and selected Blaser’s Physiotherapy Clinic as their favourite physiotherapy service provider.
In June, Kingston This Week asks readers to pick their favourite in 256 different categories. The categories cover the best in food and drink, shopping, entertainment and services. From these favourites, a list of the top three in each category is compiled and readers are asked to select the winner. Over a four-week period, more than one thousand readers submit hundreds of responses, thereby selecting a platinum winner, a gold winner and a silver winner in each category.
We want to take this opportunity to thank all of our patients who expressed their support by voting for us in the KTW Reader’s Choice Awards.
Date: 2005
Blaser's Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary!
Blaser's Physiotherapy Clinic is happy and proud to announce its 50th anniversary this year.
Blaser's clinic was first established in 1955 by Hans Blaser, who worked in his private clinic in the evenings after working all day as Director of Physiotherapy at St. Mary's of the Lake Hospital.
The clinic expanded and changed location over the years, at first moving as the Blasers' home moved. It was initially located on Brock Street at the corner of Sydenham Street in a first floor office with an apartment above. It then moved to 32 MacDonnell Street with the office in the bungalow and subsequently to 117 Carruthers Street, with the office first in the house and then in the converted double garage. It then moved to 168 Mowat Avenue at the corner of Churchill Street - where it remained for several years - with the office in the basement of the house via a separate entrance. It was there that Hans sons Bernard and Martin joined in the practice and expanded it to a daytime as well as evening endeavor. Soon thereafter, the clinic moved to the Thomson, Jemmett, Vogelzang Insurance building at 321 Concession Street. It has remained there for over twenty years, expanding in size once again during that time.
Blaser's Physiotherapy now employs seven excellent support staff and eight skilled physiotherapists including Bernard and Martin and Hans daughter-in-law Anne.
Date: April 1st, 2005
Physiotherapy Was Not De-listed From O.H.I.P.
Although the Government of Ontario announced their intent to de-list physiotherapy from O.H.I.P.’s list of insured services beginning April 1, 2005, they backed off in the face of public pressure and did not de-list physiotherapy. That’s the good news.
The bad news, however, is that the government changed the criteria that must be met to be eligible for coverage of physiotherapy services by O.H.I.P. Rather than all citizens of Ontario continuing to be insured by O.H.I.P., only people who fall into these categories remain insured – those 19 years of age and younger, those 65 years of age and older, those requiring physiotherapy services in their home (including retirement homes and long-term care homes), those who require physiotherapy services as a result of a condition requiring an overnight hospital stay and those on Ontario Disability Services Plan.
At Blaser’s Physiotherapy Clinic O.H.I.P. covers a portion of the cost of physiotherapy services for those who fall into these categories.
