Professional Development

We have a two new employees.  Kelly Dew will be working full time starting in September and Michelle Haddox is a subcontractor also starting in September.  We are excited to have them join our team.

Reflecting over the course of this year, there are many things that come to mind as we celebrate 2008.  I would like to list just a few:

1) We began a new contract at Bluefield Regional Medical Center.

2)  We expanded our Birth to Three services with Bryn Brown specializing in the area of pediatric feeding.

3)  We launched our Voice Clinic at Thomas Memorial Hospital in collaboration with Dr. Mike Beasley.

4)  We launched our Telespeech Project.

5)  We hired 3 new speech pathologists: Sara Hall, Amanda Bonner and Anna Stollings.

6)  We have trained personnel in each hospital to change out the tracheo-esophageal prosthesis for our laryngectomee patients.

7)  We set record numbers of units at SMMC with the staff increasing from 2 SLPs to 4 SLPs.

8)  We expanded our out-patient program at SMMC.

9)  We presented the Telespeech project at the ASHA convention in Chicago in November.

10)  We increased our company wide charitable giving.

We have experienced some challenges this year as well.  We are looking closely at the operations of LinguaCare in an effort to better streamline the company.   There will be some changes coming in 2009 that we believe will better serve our patients and our employees.  We remain grateful to our staff for their hard work and for the compassionate, quality services that they provide daily to our pediatric and adult patients.  We thank God for 2008 and all the opportunities that we have been afforded.  We look forward to sharing 2009 with all of you.