Julia Tripp is a Community Care Coordinator for Hanger Clinic in Auburn, Maine.

As a Community Care Coordinator, Julia meets with all new prosthetic patients before surgery and supports patients from amputation to ambulation. She is equipped with a thorough understanding of prosthetics and orthotics, serving as a single point of contact for all new amputees as they transition through the continuum of care. She ensures patients and family members are provided with educational materials, appropriate community resources, and emotional support like amputee support groups and AMPOWER peer visitation. Julia attends physician visits with patients and maintains accurate and complete patient files while supporting patients through these trying times.

Julia has been a licensed physical therapist assistant for 10+ years supporting patients and care teams in skilled rehabilitation settings in and around the greater Lewiston/Auburn area. She has worked as a clinical assistant and certified fitter where she supported prosthetists and orthotists in evaluating, fitting and adjusting prosthetic and orthotic devices. She is passionate about helping people regain their mobility and she takes pride in her work to get patients moving again.

Facilitates

• Pre-amputation prosthetic consultations and pre-amputation peer visits
• Post-amputation limb volume management and limb protection
• Access to peer support
• Communication with patient/family as well as healthcare professionals
• Contact from first patient encounter to the evaluation of a prosthesis
• Implementation and completion of clinically supported pre-/post-op amputee protocol