Speech Language Pathologist (Per Diem)

Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) is adding a Speech Language Pathologist (Per Diem) to the group at NYC Health Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health. South Brooklyn Health is a redesigned health care campus featuring the new 11-floor Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital which provides emergency care, modern labor and delivery suites, and state-of-the-art surgical services. The new Health & Wellness Institute offers outpatient services—from primary and preventive care to specialty services for children and adults—all designed to keep our community healthy.

The hospital maintains a strong academic affiliation with SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University and NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine to maintain its high standards of healthcare delivery.

The mission of NYC Health Hospitals is to extend equally to all New Yorkers, regardless of the ability to pay, comprehensive health services of the highest quality in an atmosphere of humane care, dignity, and respect. Their Values are built on a foundation of social and racial equity and has established the ICARE standards for all staff.

NYC Health Hospitals is the nation’s largest municipal health care delivery system in the United States. Dedicated to providing the highest quality health care services to all New Yorkers with compassion, dignity and respect, and regardless of immigration status or ability to pay.

Opportunity Details

• Schedule: Weekend, holiday, and vacation coverage.
• Screens patients to determine absence or presence of speech language, hearing, oropharyngeal/swallowing impairments requiring further evaluation and/or referral.
• Performs complete evaluations, including case history and testing.
• Selection and administration of formal diagnostic test(s) and interpretation of results to determine etiology, type, nature, diagnosis and severity of presenting disorder.
• Tests stimulability and determines prognosis for improvement, makes recommendations for treatment, communicates the evaluation results to referring physicians, patients, families/others, performs reevaluations as required, and prepares written documentation of same.
• Attends team rounds and evaluation conferences to discuss and determine progress, changes in care plan, prognosis and treatment needs, and prepares written documentation of same.
• Develops and implements written individualized patient care plans, including long and short-term functional goals with criteria and time frames, provides treatment to restore improve and/or augment communication and swallowing for those patients with a diagnosed communication disorder and/or dysphagia requiring treatment and/or a home program, modifies treatment plans periodically as required, provides opportunities for patient/family/other input into the care plan, and prepares written documentation of progress as required.