Arizona Diamondbacks help Phoenix health care facility get new therapy room

PHOENIX — A health care facility for the Valley’s medically fragile and chronically ill now has a new therapy room.

Hacienda Healthcare, near 16th Street and Baseline Road in Phoenix, received a $50,000 grant from the Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation to renovate the room.

The patients now have a brightly-lit, well-designed space with free weights, a state-of-the-art treadmill, walking rails — even a checkers game.

“It was a lot smaller before,” Karina Cesena said at Tuesday’s unveiling. Her older daughter, Jazzmyne Morris, receives treatment at Hacienda Healthcare for an anoxic brain injury.

“Even though it’s the same amount of wall space, it was just a lot more objects inside of here,” she added.

“It gives (the patients and my daughter) a lot of hope.”

Brian Henrie, Hacienda’s skilled-nursing facility administrator, said he’s profoundly grateful to the Diamondbacks Foundation.

“While we have always had great therapists and support staff in our therapy department, we have never had a gym that matched the exceptional therapy we provided. Now we do,” he said.

“And I thank you all for that,” he added.

“This gift means so much to us, but more importantly to our clients,” Henrie said.

“Having a bright welcome in a state-of-the-art gym – to complete the often difficult work of therapy – will undoubtedly inspire and improve the overall experience of recovery.”

Hacienda Healthcare received the grant last year as a Ken Kendrick Grand Slam Award.

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