Granada Rehabilitation & Wellness Center 24 Dec | Granada Rehabilitation & Wellness Center | Granada ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Provides treatment programs to maximize speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing abilities within each patient's structural or functional limitations, including but not limited to: Evaluates and treats patients.
Communicates with families, physicians, and other interdisciplinary team members.
Documents services in the medical records.
Contributes to professional development of self and others.
Enhances interdisciplinary team through professional skills and knowledge.
Demonstrates safe working practices.
Provides patient treatments that meet patient needs and uses current treatment knowledge in accordance with facility clinical procedures.
Performs accurate, comprehensive evaluations.
Develops effective plan of treatment and obtains appropriate approvals from referring physician.
Utilizes appropriate evaluation tools and completes accurate evaluations.
Communicates with supervisor and other health team members regarding patient progress, problems, and plans.
Instructs patients' families or nursing staff in specified follow-through programs.
Interviews patients and families regarding previous level of functioning and lifestyle, and current and future expectations.
Demonstrates knowledge of appropriate resources for problem-solving and clinical best practice.
Evaluates patients within facility-specific time frame.
Supervises Clinical Fellow and other SLPs in direct patient care and patient-related activities.
Writes accurate, complete, and clear documentation in accordance with regulatory, licensing, payer, and accrediting requirements.
Records Resident Needs Reviews, evaluations, daily treatment notes, progress notes, and discharge summaries in accordance with facility procedures.
Records treatment charges and ensures that documentation is consistent with billing data.
Writes specific, objective documentation, which is outcome-oriented and details the patient's needs, potential to benefit from treatment, and progress achieved to date, including specific, objective measurable goals.
Manages Medicare Medical Review and Denials process in conjunction with Director of Rehabilitation, the facility team, and therapy staff.
Acquires and documents consents/approvals for treatment when necessary.
Consistently demonstrates facility's interdisciplinary approach to patient care.
Integrates findings of other members of the interdisciplinary team in treatment assessment and recommendations.
Integrates input from patient and family in treatment assessment and recommendations.
Prepares for and provides meaningful contributions to the rehab team conferences, patient care conferences, utilization review meetings, family conferences, and caregiver training sessions.
Collaborates with and informs facility staff in areas of patient progress.
Educates members of the team in areas of expertise.
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