Diagnose and adios? Stay a while longer, my friend.

Diagnose, stabilize, and move on to the next chart. That's a common model in acute care, but it's the one this team walked away from. One patient sat trached, decannulated, retrached, and off food, stuck until his care team decided the plan wasn't working and changed it. Three days later he was doing seventy-five to a hundred swallows a session. Four weeks after that, he was eating regular food, off the trach, and walking home. That case was one piece of a bigger shift. The SLP team at Johns Hopkin’s borrowed ideas from physical therapy, occupational therapy, and even an old animal study on stroke recovery, then built a case out of patient outcomes, hospital priorities, and a story that was hard to argue with.Join us for a chat with Nicole Frost of Johns Hopkins Hospital.Guest: Nicole Frost, M.A. CCC-SLP, BCS-S Contact: [email protected] Education:https://swallowthegap.comInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/swallowpatho