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Prime Healthcare Speech Therapist - Speech Pathology in Weslaco, Texas
Overview
Join an award-winning team of dedicated professionals committed to our core values of quality, compassion, and community! Knapp Medical Center, a member of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, offers incredible opportunities to expand your horizons and be part of a community dedicated to making a difference.
Knapp Medical Center is an award-winning, not-for-profit hospital in Weslaco, Texas. With 227 beds, the community hospital specializes in emergency care, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, wound care, surgery, cardiology, gastroenterology, critical care, and interventional radiology. Knapp serves as the only acute care hospital in the Mid-Valley area, as well as Weslaco's only Level III Trauma Center, Advanced Primary Stroke Center, and Level II Newborn Nursery. Knapp has been providing quality and compassionate healthcare to Mid-Valley residents for 60 years. More than 300 physicians serve on the hospital's medical staff. Knapp also serves as one of the largest employers in the Mid-Valley, employing more than 450 people. For more information, please call 956-968-8567 or visit www.KnappMed.org
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Responsibilities
Responsible for the evaluation, treatment planning and implementation of treatment for patients demonstrating disorders of speech, language, cognition, swallowing and other services prescribed by a physician. Assists in developing and implementing new and ongoing programs beneficial for the enhancement of the department.
Qualifications
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, TRAINING
Graduate of an accredited college or university with Bachelors in speech therapy required.
MS degree in Speech-Language Pathology preferred.
At least one year of experience in a hospital setting.
Licensed by the State in Speech-Language Pathology.
Current BLS for healthcare providers certification upon hire and maintain current.
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FacilityKnapp Medical Center
LocationUS-TX-Weslaco
ID2024-162691
CategoryClinical Professional
Position TypePer Diem
ShiftVariable
Job TypeNon-Exempt