THE BLANKENSHIP CENTER specializes in the evaluation of job-related injuries, the assessment of personal Injuries and the analysis of high-risk industrial jobs.  

 

We provide Physicians, Employers, Case Managers, Insurers and Attorneys with objective information regarding an injured worker's ability to work using an evaluation called a Functional Capacity Evaluation, or an FCE.  Our unique FCE

is called the WORKEVALTM and it helps Physicians, Case Managers and Employers determine what work limitations are appropriate for the injured worker.

 

We also provide Physicians with the objective data they need to determine the injured worker's Permanent and Partial Disability, or PPD.  The name for

this evaluation, which was developed and published by the American Medical Association, is a Permanent Impairment Evaluation.  This evaluation process determines the percent of Permanent, Partial Impairment and that percentage

is used to help Patients, Employers, Insurers and Attorneys negotiate the settlement of the Workers' Compensation Case.

T H E   B L A N K E N S H I P   C E N T E R

The Blankenship Center is an Independent Evaluation Center that is Not Affiliated with Any Physician Group, Insurance Company, Medical Facility,
Physical Therapy Practice, Rehabilitation Company, FCE Company, Medical Case Management Company, Attorney Group or Investment Company.
The Blankenship Center is Not Affiliated with any FCE Companies, such as, Key Functional Assessment, Matheson, WorkWell, ErgoScience, Quest

Medical Group or JTECH Medical. The Blankenship WorkEvalTM was Developed by Keith Blankenship and is Owned Exclusivey by Blankenship, Inc.

 

Keith Blankenship was born in Cincinnati, OH, he attended Wellston High School, Wellston, OH, he attended Marshall University, Huntington, WV, he earned his B.S. in Physical Therapy from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, he was a Lieutenant

and Physical Therapist in the U.S Public Health Service in New York City, he became      the Director of Physical Therapy at The Kings' Daughters Hospital, Ashland, KY in 1981    and he was a Clinical Instructor for the University of Kentucky from 1976-1983 and for West Virginia University from 1979-1983.  He Co-Authored the American Back

School, a popular Back Injury Prevention program that was cited by the Wall Street

Journal for its injury and cost savings for the CSX Corporation. Keith then became the Director of one of the nation's first Work Hardening and Functional Capacity Evaluation Centers, The American Back to Work Center in Macon, GA in 1983, and it was there that he began developing his unique style of evaluating industrial injuries. And it was from this innovative work that he began what would become one of the world's most popular seminar series on Work Hardening Programs and Functional Capacity Evaluations, which he sponsored and taught to over 16,000 health care professionals from 1984-2002.

 

Lisa Blankenship was born in Macon, GA, she attended Temple University, Chattanooga, TN, and Macon State College, Macon, GA, majoring in Psychology and Business. Lisa began her Workers' Compensation career in 1983 at The American Back to Work Center,Macon, GA, and it was here that she began learning the nuances of the Job-Related Injuries and Workers' Compensation Claims. Lisa went on to earn her Certified Workers' Compensation Professional (CWCP) status and she was in the first group of professionals to be certified

as a Medical Provider Workers' Compensation Professional (MPWCP) and she also earned

her license as a Georgia Workers' Compensation Insurance Adjuster. Lisa developed the Business Operations for The American Back to Work Center and she is now the COO,

CFO and Director of Business Operations of the The Blankenship Center.

 

Lisa can be contacted for scheduling patients for FCE's and Impairment Rating Evaluations or for any questons regarding a paient or a report by Phone, Fax or E-Mail.

Keith has compiled an impressive list of firsts in the Industrial Rehabilitation field, including the first Physical Therapist to sponsor and teach on Industrial Rehabilitation Programs in Live Seminars around the world, the first to present a Full Day Symposium on Industrial Rehabilitation at the 1986 APTA Conference, the first to present a One Day Symposium on Industrial Rehabilitation to the American Back Society in 1987, the first to teach live FCE Seminars entirely on Notebook Computers, the first to produce an FCE Home Study Program so professionals could become Certified FCE Evaluators without having to leave their practices to take a lengthy seminar, the first to develop and teach Physical Therapists,

Physicians, Chiropractors and Occupational Therapists how to objectively evaluate Functional Deficits with Computerized Equipment and Software and the first to teach those same professionals how to identify, evaluate, document and report

on Conscious Malingering in Workers' Compensation when most professionals didn't believe that malingering even existed.