Brautigam named HealthWorks president

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Jack Brautigam, P.T., has been named the president of HealthWorks Rehab and Fitness. Former president and founder John Spiker retired from the organization effective April 8.
    

“It’s a great opportunity because of the people we have working for us,” Brautigam said. “We really are as strong as or stronger than we have ever been. The staff is solid, and it’s easy to take over because we really have some good people working for us.”

Spiker founded Morgantown Physical Therapy Associates, which later became HealthWorks Rehab and Fitness, in 1979. HealthWorks Rehab and Fitness provides comprehensive rehabilitation services with offices in Morgantown, Westover, Buckhannon, Fairmont, Blacksville, and Cheat Lake in West Virginia, and Smithfield, Pa. It has been a joint venture of WVU Medicine-WVU Hospitals, Mon Health System, and St. Joseph’s Hospital since the 1990s. 

Brautigam has been with HealthWorks Rehab and Fitness since 1989 and has served as vice president since 1997. He holds a master’s degree in physical therapy from Baylor University and a master’s degree in physical education athletic training from the University of Arizona.

According to Brautigam, the future of HealthWorks is one of reaching into the community and finding areas that can be better served through satellite locations.

“The current state of healthcare says that you take the services to people so they don’t have to travel,” Brautigam said. “We hope to have the opportunity to serve the community in other areas through satellite clinics.”

Brautigam serves as a clinical professor for the WVU Division of Physical Therapy and previously worked as an athletic trainer for West Virginia University. He has been a volunteer athletic trainer and physical therapist for NASCAR events, the Pan-American Games, and the XIII Summer World Games for the Deaf U.S. wrestling and track and field teams. He was a staff physical therapist and Captain in the U.S. Army at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.