Hi, I work as an outpatient speech language pathologist at a hospital. I have a patient who has shared with me he needs a procedure done (at my hospital) that requires anesthesia. The hospital is requiring someone to drive him home and stay with him in the recovery room.
This patient does not drive, has no family or other social support, and has severe expressive communication difficulties. They have told him that he cannot take the bus/uber/cab, etc. I have reached out to his social worker with no success (told me they don’t offer those services, wanted to call the office and “make sure” he couldn’t take a bus home). Services at the hospital told me Medicaid could provide someone but he applied to Medicaid and he wasn’t approved. Me and my manager have exhausted all of our hospital resources we know of.
I am trying not to overreach my scope as an SLP but social services only have availability to see him once per month and he cannot read/write emails or texts or speak on the phone. I want to provide him all the help I can within my scope and professional boundaries. Any advice or resources I’m not thinking of? Thank you!
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