Jennifer Kemps

Develop care plans consistent with the rehabilitation goals of the patient in collaboration with the interdisciplinary skilled nursing and therapy team. Provide screening, evaluation, and treatment for pediatric and adult populations within skilled nursing, outpatient clinic, and home health settings. Educate patients, family, and caregivers to extend continuity of care.

Speech-Language Pathologist - Millennium Therapy - Independence, IA

(2012-02)

• Develop care plans consistent with the rehabilitation goals of the patient in collaboration with the interdisciplinary skilled nursing and therapy team.
• Provide screening, evaluation, and treatment for pediatric and adult populations within skilled nursing, outpatient clinic, and home health settings.
• Educate patients, family, and caregivers to extend continuity of care.
• Provide evaluations and treatment for people with aphasia, voice disorders, swallow disorders, cognitive communication deficits, verbal expression deficits, apraxia of speech, articulation disorders, dysarthria, strokes, and other medically complex diagnoses.
• Utilize discharge planning skills to promote independence, maximize function and return patients to their homes.
• Assess and treat children with speech and language delays (early intervention and school-age).
• Document using computerized systems: RehabOptima and Clinicient
• Document in compliance with various home health agency systems.
• Extensive experience in billing of Medicare and Medicaid.

Speech-Language Pathologist - Health Enterprises of Iowa - Cedar Rapids, IA

(2015-01 - 2018-05)

Company dissolved therapy services

• Provided evaluation/treatment of speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, and swallowing disorders to children, adults, and geriatrics in settings that include homes, assisted living facilities, and hospitals.
• Conducted caregiver training to facilitate communication at home, work, and in the community.
• Developed and implemented individualized treatment plans with input from patients, families, and other professionals.
• Assisted patients with severe communication disorders with the use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems, including speech generating devices (SGDs).
• Documented patient progress, completedd discharge summaries, provide home-program treatment plans and other forms for intra-/extra- agency ensuring all documentation was clear, concise, timely, accurate and complete.

Master of Arts - Speech-Language Pathology - University of Northern Iowa (2011-05)

Post-baccalaureate - Communicative Disorders - University of Northern Iowa (2009-05)

Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology; Minor in Spanish - Iowa State University (1994-12)