Major issues affecting the delivery of services in hospital settings. Recommendations and strategies

The critical issues addressed in this report will escalate and continue to have an impact on service delivery. Rapid response to these issues as they arise and evolve is more urgent now than ever. Decisions on health care services--the type, the amount, the provider, and the recipient--are increasingly being made by non-practitioners seeking cost savings in a system moving out of control. Speech-language pathologists and audiologists in hospital settings need timely information and support to deal with these critical areas and thereby ensure continued services to communicatively impaired persons well into the 21st century.