PRN Speech Pathologist , Louisville Therapies
Where You'll Be:
The Baptist Health Louisville Speech Pathology team is focused on providing collaborative patient-centered care. Our team consists of a range of experiences from 1-20+ years. We serve patients that from adult and geriatric with an emphasis on dysphagia and speech/language or cognitive disorders. Treatment is typically a combination of acute care and outpatient rehabilitation.
Diagnoses and treats communication and/swallowing disorders as assigned. Diagnoses may include, but are not limited to neurological disorders, deficits due to injury or surgery, developmental or acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders, hearing impairment, voice or fluency disorders, impaired cognition, sensorimotor deficits. Cooperates with other departments and therapies in the comprehensive approach to patient care.
What You'll Do:
1. Schedule, evaluate and treat patients as assigned
2. Develop an outcome-oriented plan of care, including patient and family knowledge sharing
3. Provide a treatment-based on plan of care, and revise as necessary
4. Accurately maintain all patient documentation, including computerized documentation, and complete appropriate charging for evaluation, treatment and teaching
Why You're a Great Fit:
You are licensed in Speech-Language Pathology from the State of Kentucky
You have a CCC (Certificate of Clinical Competence) from American Speech Hearing Association
You have experience in NICU (Strongly preferred)
You have or will obtain Basic Life Support (CPR) certification
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
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