Home Health Occupational Therapy & Medical Massage Therapy Services

David Barnes is our fabulous chef at Prana Home Health & Wellness.  With years of experience cooking as a sous chef for Jean-Robert, David literally brings it all to the table, and with Prana Home Health & Wellness David prepares your meals in your home kitchen to your specification.  David also has experience as a private chef for the Lindner family.   David spent many years cooking specified diets to the many grateful residents of Marjorie P. Lee  Retirement Community.   He has experience cooking to dietary specifications and recommendations of a speech-language pathologist and worked closely with them during his tenure at Marjorie P. Lee.  David will supply a weekly menu to your dietary requirements and specifications and batch cook twice monthly or to your specification to facilitate healthy meal preparation and alleviate the stress of grocery shopping; especially as and when mobility is a true barrier to accessing the community.   David will cook for you in your own home to your specifications or, if necessary, in the event that alternative meal preparation arrangements must be made, can facilitate the use of our offsite commercial kitchen.

Tina Walter, C-IAYT is an Integrative Oncology & Wellness Yoga Therapist at a number of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky hospitals. These include but are not limited to The Christ Hospital, UC Health, and St. Elisabeth's.   Tina provides yoga therapy and mind/body interventions while people receive chemotherapy in both inpatient and outpatient clinical spaces.   She is well versed in palliative care and end of life services. She teaches group classes for those both in cancer treatment and survivorship at the Cancer Support Community and through the Osher Center at UC Health. Tina has completed extensive trainings to teach yoga asana postures and technique, anatomy, meditation, and pranayama.  Tina is an accomplished speaker, published writer, and has presented extensive research on these various topics surrounding holistic health & wellness.  As a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, Tina enjoys gardening and is a member of the Ault Park Garden Club.  A mother of five children, Tina resides in Cincinnati with her husband Bob,-co owner and local coffee roaster of Awakenings Coffee & Wine in Hyde Park.

Kiana Blakes is our fabulous community liaison and community cook.  Kiana will work to support our sustainability efforts in partnership with Kept House to channel a waste stream of durable medical equipment back into the community, especially to those with limited health insurance coverage and financial resources.  This equipment will be repurposed and safely reused as appropriate and reviewed by the occupational therapy team at Prana Home Health & Wellness.  Kiana also supports our cooking efforts to ensure specifications and menu requests.   Kiana brings her vibrant heart forward personality right to you, and if she can not get you exactly what you need on the spot, she will send you in the right direction.  Kiana can assist with sign posting you to almost any existing agency and source of funding resources in the local Cincinnati area and beyond to facilitate support.  She will bring your personal equipment needs and requirements to our occupational therapy team  and our community partners at Kept House who are eager to support returning durable medical equipment back to the community full circle from cradle to grave.  Kiana's role and efforts in our organization are essential.  Kiana is our primary contact if you should wish to support our sustainability efforts and donate durable medical equipment back to The Greater Cincinnati Community.

Katie Charlton-Perkins, OTR/L, LMT is an experienced specialist occupational therapist and medical massage therapist with international experience in the United Kingdom and the USA.  She has practiced as a clinical occupational therapist for two years in Cambridge, United Kingdom, within various complex settings.  These clinical settings included early intervention and prevention, rheumatology & hands, neurorehabilitation (stroke & traumatic brain Injury), outpatient mental health & psychosis, and inpatient acute care and rehabilitation. In England, she worked with members of the extremely vulnerable elderly population for the Cambridgeshire County Council, where her cases were highly complex and required synthesized input from multifaceted interdisciplinary teams. She has also provided care in the outpatient rheumatology clinic at Cambridge University Teaching Hospital Addenbrooke's, where management of anxiety and depression as a result of chronic pain was a focal point of the nature of her work,  in addition to functional components, e.g., home hand exercise programs, splinting, and education. Within the Cambridgeshire County Council, she  worked with individuals with severe physical and cognitive disabilities who were often lacking in the ability to self-advocate as a result, which formed an ultimate barrier to their participation in daily habits, roles, and routines, and society at large. She has worked in several locations, from clinics to working with individuals and their families in their homes to inpatient acute and outpatient clinical settings.  Katie has conducted telephone and virtual appointments on behalf of the Cambridge University Hospital Addenbrooke’s Rheumatology Clinic on selected days to support social distancing within our clinic during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.  She gained significant experience in the inpatient and community mental health setting and  completed clinicals on an outpatient/ community adult psychosis team.  This entailed working with individuals with an array of mental health conditions, from paranoid schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and mood disorder. It has always been her utmost duty of care to ensure the safety of all patients, and to increase participation, in addition to signposting individuals and supporting family members to existing and new resources within the community; if not schedule these on behalf of patients upon their request. Much of her work both on behalf of the local authority in Cambridge and for Cambridge University Hospital Addenbrooke’s (NHS) has involved close working with families, social workers, home health support workers, community/ primary care occupational therapists, physicians, and other allied health professionals.  She has worked closely with families to support vulnerable individuals; focusing on their patient-centered care and occupational goals. Upon relocation to Cincinnati Ohio, she continues to work for The Christ Hospital in both inpatient acute and inpatient rehabilitation unit settings.  In addition; she is also currently employed by Hamilton County Educational Services Center as an occupational therapist working with children with neurodivergent conditions, physical disabilities, autism, and learning difficulties during the academic school year.  Katie loves and is very passionate about her work as an occupational therapist within her career trajectory and she would be thrilled to assist you and your family with in-home healthcare and occupational therapy needs.