SLPs in Health Care: Communicating With Administrators

ASHA’s Health Care Services team has compiled these resources to help speech-language pathologists (SLPs) navigate workplace challenges and communicate with administrators using relevant data.

• Administrative Mandates: Read this ASHA Leader article for ASHA’s guidance on addressing administrative mandates that conflict with autonomy and clinical judgment.

• ASHA, APTA, and AOTA Consensus Statement on Clinical Judgment in Health Care [PDF]: This consensus statement asserts that clinicians are ethically obligated to use their clinical judgment to deliver services that are medically necessary and in the patient’s best interests.

• Demonstrating Your Value Fact Sheets: These fact sheets present data that showcase the value that SLP services can bring to individuals, their care partners, and organizations.

• Navigating Workplace Challenges in Health Care: Use this framework to navigate administrative requests or mandates that conflict with your autonomy and clinical judgment.

• Productivity: Learn more about productivity standards, and advocate for quality patient care and clinician well-being.

• Quality Improvement (QI): Read about QI, a process that identifies practice trends, problems, and factors that enhance or hinder client care.

• SLPs Are the Most Qualified Providers for Dysphagia Services [PDF]: Use this handout to show that SLPs are the most qualified providers for dysphagia services.