Hospital Inpatient Services

Based on consult requests from Nebraska Medicine physicians, MMI speech-language pathologists provide inpatient, acute care services at Nebraska Medicine.

• Daily and weekly, evaluation and intervention therapy services are provided for all patients at Nebraska Medicine and the Bellevue Medical Center.
• On weekends and holidays, only new consults or current patients with changes in their status will be evaluated by a speech-language pathologist.

Typical Inpatient Services

Evaluations

Speech-language pathology staff complete evaluations for individuals who have experienced alterations in their speech, language, voice, swallowing or cognitive skills, as a result of a medical status change.

Plan of Care

Following the evaluation, a plan of care is established, with focused goals to enable the hospitalized individual to regain their skills. This plan may involve exercises to improve speech precision or vocal loudness, strategies to communicate basic wants and needs to family and/or staff and/or activities to rebuild memory or attention skills.

Who Benefits

Individuals with the following diagnoses may benefit from speech-language pathology services while hospitalized at Nebraska Medicine:

• Alzheimer’s disease.
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
• Brain injury.
• Brain tumor.
• Cancers of the head and neck or esophagus.
• Concussion.
• Injuries to the face or neck.
• Muscular Dystrophy.
• Parkinson’s disease.
• Preterm/premature babies.
• Stroke.
• Transplant patients: Heart, lung, liver, small bowel/pancreas.