New opportunity for Gottsche expansion
Sunrise Community Resources transfers land for facility to focus on traumatic brain injuries
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WORLAND – A land transfer from Sunrise Community Resources Inc. to Gottsche Rehabilitation Center will eventually be used to provide services for people with traumatic brain injuries.
The three acres of land on South 23rd Street was transferred on Nov. 23 from Sunrise Community Resources Inc. to Gottsche Rehabilitation Center. Sunrise is a nonprofit corporation out of Worland with the mission of providing a facility dedicated to assisting adults with acquired brain injuries, Sunrise board member and psychologist Dr. Bob Bayuk said.
Sunrise currently has four active members and was founded by married couple Dale and Margaret “Nikki” Weaver to assist their daughter Ann, who was injured coming home from a ski trip as a teenager.
“The board of Sunrise continued to carry on their [Dale and Nikki’s] dream of realizing the facility in Worland,” Bayuk said.
“This dream of a facility eventually culminated into a partnership with Gottsche Center and the property was transferred from Sunrise to Gottsche recently. Gottsche and their board of directors made a commitment see that the dream that Dale Weaver had will be realized eventually with the establishment of facility on South 23rd Street,” Bayuk said.
“They’ll be actively moving forward to realize his plan,” Bayuk said.
CEO of Gottsche Rehabilitation Center, Cheryl Shero, said Gottsche has already been treating patients with traumatic brain injuries and challenged issues in Worland for the past five years, which is part of Sunrise’s vision and mission.
Gottsche currently has a facility in Worland called Gottsche Rehabilitation and Therapy Clinic located on Charles Street.
“We look forward to continuing our growth and expansion in the Worland area and developing the property,” Shero said.
Shero said, “At this time we don’t have a definitive date due to the changes in the economy.”
Bayuk said the original goal of the land transfer was, “Like the other services that Gottsche offers, our hope is that the facility will serve the Big Horn Basin area and the entire state of Wyoming.”
