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Is Home Health Care for You

WEBAbout home care. Started in the early 1800s as philanthropic nursing care, home health care has expanded to become a bridge for patients discharged from acute care but …

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What Does the Patient Want

WEBTo truly put patients in the center of their own care, we need to ensure they can effectively communicate with providers and loved ones—and vice versa. Our professions are …

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ASHA Voices: Regional Factors Influencing Home Health Care

WEBAs more patients choose to receive health care at home, we hear stories from home health SLPs working in the city of Baltimore, the suburbs of Atlanta, and in a rural part of the …

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‘Hearing Care for All’: A Community Coalition Addressing Disparities

WEBBrendaly Rodríguez. March 3, 2021. The World Hearing Day theme this year is “Hearing Care for All,” a timely topic as the U.S. struggles with systemic inequities and their …

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Patient Needs—Not Administrative Mandates—Are Critical to …

WEBAdministrative mandates threaten SLPs' ability to provide individualized treatment to patients in health care facilities.

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Why Social Determinants of Health Matter So Much to Care

WEBThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lists five domains for social determinants of health: economic stability, education access and quality, health care …

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Study Maps U.S. Hearing Loss, Right Down to the County

WEBThe map portrays epidemiological estimates from the CDC-funded Sound Check study, which reveals higher hearing loss rates among men, non-Hispanic Whites, and rural …

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Navigating to True Patient-Centered Care

WEBPatient-centered care is more important than ever in our efforts to tackle systemic racism in our health care system. Patient-centered care brings focus to and strengthens …

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Pondering a Move to Home Health

WEBHome health care for adults is a rapidly growing industry, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting 21% employment growth in the sector by 2030. Just over 5% of …

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Health Literacy: Research Directions for Speech-Language …

WEBHealth literacy—the “degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and the services needed to make appropriate …

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Social Determinants of Health and Payment Policies: Changes Ahead

WEBThis model is key to the CMS “triple aim” strategy of improving health care and patient outcomes, while reducing costs. CMS aims to have all Medicare and Medicaid …

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Transcript: ASHA Voices: Regional Factors Influencing Home …

WEBRead the blog post for this episode. GRAY (Narration): This is ASHA Voices. I’m J.D. Gray. Today on the podcast, we speak with home health SLPs working in three different …

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Achieving Quality and Improved Outcomes Through

WEBASHA adapted the World Health Organization’s definitions of IPE and IPP to describe their application to educational and health care settings. That is, IPE occurs when two or …

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Fall Prevention: Patient-Centered Outcomes

WEBThe consequences of falls range from physical injury (e.g., fractures) to psychological distress in the form of depression, anxiety, fear of falling, and decline in overall balance …

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Maintenance Therapy—What's Makes Non-Rehabilitative Support …

WEBMaintenance therapy goals include preventing unnecessary, avoidable complications from a chronic condition, such as deterioration of communication skills and reduced functional …

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Oral Hygiene and Dysphagia—Care and Complications

WEBAshford: Oral hygiene care for these patients is just as important as if they were orally fed. Lean them forward over a basin and let the oral secretions spill into the basin. Rinse the …

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Empowering Patients to Participate in Treatment Decisions

WEBFour abilities contribute to decision-making capacity, as identified by psychologist Thomas Grisso and psychiatrist Paul Appelbaum in the book “Assessing Competence to Consent …

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Online Group Connects People With Right Hemisphere Brain …

WEBTwo SLPs on opposite coasts combine their expertise to create virtual patient support. In January 2021, a group of strangers from Upstate New York and Central California …

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A Multicultural May: Children’s Health Fair Celebrates BHSM

WEBIt was a multicultural May for the department of speech and audiology services at Gouverneur Healthcare Services in New York City. On May 10, the department held its …

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Cash or Private Pay With Medicaid Beneficiaries: Elements to …

WEBIf you are a Medicaid-enrolled provider by virtue of your employment—and therefore possibly not allowed to accept cash pay from Medicaid beneficiaries—you can’t accept …

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Habilitation – What it is And Why it Matters to You

WEBContrast that with services that help a person improve skills that have been lost after a stroke, head injury, illness, or other cause. The latter is rehabilitation – regaining lost …

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Creating Healthy Clinical Boundaries With Patients and Clients

WEBIn our work helping our clients and patients, creating boundaries can be hard. We audiologists and speech-language pathologists do this work because we care, and we …

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