Michelle Ann Mccaslin Email & Phone Number

• Provide adult assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of speech-language, cognitive, voice, and swallowing disorders, from various etiologies.• Advise patients progressing from hospitals, SNF, and rehab facilities to home setting to increase safety and independence.• Attend and participate in weekly transdisciplinary team meetings, report patients’ current level of functioning, progress, and discuss discharge planning.• Communicate with PCPs to report safety issues, falls, medication discrepancies, request orders for important diagnostic assessments, OP referrals, and request specialist referrals (e.g., ENT, GI, or dietician services). • Request, track, and coordinate insurance authorization and justification for further services. • Oasis admissions, assessment, recertifications, and discharges. • Interpretation and application of oasis guidance as set forth by CMS.• Home safety assessments and creation of strategies and supports to increase safety, reduce falls, and reduce hospital re-admissions.• Collaboration with transdisciplinary team to carry out successful treatment plans to maximize Pt outcomes. • Care-partner education and training to increase carryover of HEP, safety skills, independence, and increase quality of life for patients.• Established new goal elements for the home health documentation software.• Created evidence-based HEP programs and educational resources used by SLP staff.• Produced home health processes document that was shared with new staff to decrease training time.Spearheaded the organization and administration of the offline SLP resources for the home health department.

Oceanside, California

• Provide adult assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of speech-language, cognitive, voice, and swallowing disorders, from various etiologies.• Conduct individual, group, interdisciplinary, and community-integration therapy, to maximize patient outcomes and carryover of learned skills.• Attend and participate in weekly transdisciplinary team meetings; report patients’ current level of functioning, progress, and make professional recommendations regarding continued level of care and therapeutic services. • Therapeutic program development: create structured orientation practices, develop external memory aides, and implement to increase patients’ basic orientation skills and functional recall of newly learned information. • Stroke pathway development: assisted with developing the hospital’s transdisciplinary stroke pathway.• Create functional goals, treatment plans, and therapy objectives for individual patients.• Conduct patient and family education and training in preparation for patients’ discharge.o Provide individualized home programs, recommendations, and community resources to patients and families.• Provide educational in-services to hospital staff to increase carryover of important therapeutic practices and safety. • Initiate facility and technological updates to therapy program to improve patients’ quality of care.• Train and educate residential technicians to assist with therapeutic activities and carryover specific cognitive-linguistic strategies with patients. • Manage and train speech volunteers to assist with administrative tasks related to caseload management.

Orange County, California Area

The Illumination Foundation’s Children’s Resource Center is a community based, non-profit organization located in Anaheim, California. The Children’s Resource Center provides services and resources to homeless or low-income children and families. •Provided weekly language enrichment to 15 children, ages 2-5 years (early intervention in receptive and expressive language). •Initiated baseline testing of the children in order to assess areas of strength and weakness in their language acquisition.

Irvine, Ca

•Attends national and local job fairs to recruit licensed therapists for full time and per diem openings throughout the nation.

•Recruited licensed therapists for full time and per diem assignments throughout Orange County, Los Angeles County, and Riverside County.•Built and Maintained client relationships with Directors of Rehabilitation Centers in Hospitals and Skilled Nursing Facilities, and Directors of Special Education in various School Districts in Southern California.•Conducted weekly sales visits to maintain client relationships and to promote and market available therapists.•Built and Maintained employee relationships with therapists and their employment needs.•Marketing and business development via LinkedIn, Facebook, Virtual Response, and various other networking and marketing tools to locate new business opportunities and passive candidates.•Interviewed and hired therapists of all disciplines in the rehabilitation industry.•Provided qualified candidates to fulfill client’s needs while providing exceptional customer service. •Weekly reporting on business development activities to Area Manager.

Masters In Science, Communication Sciences And Disorders, Student Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist, (Gpa 3.95)

Summer Invitational Special Olympic Games, Los Angeles, CA June 6-8, 2014 Graduate Student Coordinator •Experience with otoscope.

Post Baccalaureate, Communicative Disorders, Gpa 3.95

Activities and Societies: Volunteer at St Jude Medical Center

Bfa, Bachelor Of Fine Arts Painting And Drawing