Sarah Penrod

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87 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 16 Feb

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SLP Nerdcast · SLP Middle Managers: Untapped Champions of Change · 16 Feb 2026 podcast

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Certainly with other departments that I've been in, but at Maine Medical Center, with such a culture of excellence and evidence-based practice.

Those behaviors were promoted to this position.

I'm I'm called a clinical specialist, which is basically a knowledge broker.

And some of the major projects that I'm I've worked on have been exactly what you've been describing, Kate.

So one that we just rolled out was a decision tree for how and when to treat tracheastomized patients for communication and swallowing.

So when I came to the hospital, there was huge variance in when an SLP would go in and evaluate a patient who has a neutracheostomy tube.

Some SLPs wanted to wait until the patient was wearing a speaking valve.

Some SLPs wanted to go in when the patient was on the ventilator.

And all of this comes from

varied experience, varied training.

You know, if you've worked in an LTAC, you're going to go see a patient on a ventilator.

If you maybe have only done home health, you're going to wait until the patient's wearing a speaking valve.

So within the department, this conversation of if one patient is getting an early assessment and then an early swallow study and then an early diet and the second patient.

it gets all of those things later and ends up with a peg tube that potentially was unnecessary.

This is those kinds of um variants that we were talking about at the beginning of the hour.

So what we created was a decision tree.

Certainly started with a massive lit search and clinical practice and input from other therapists across major institutions.

And we created this decision tree and we assessed pre- and post a bunch of outcomes for patients, such as length of hospital stay, time to feeding tube, time spent without communication.

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