2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/15/2022 | 12:35 PM - 1:00 PM | Reducing LTF: From Lost to Found | Room 11
Reducing LTF: From Lost to Found
Hearing Screening Associates provides outsourcing services nationwide. We will review strategies implemented to successfully decrease loss-to-follow-up. These strategies include: providing outpatient rescreens two weeks post discharge, hospital lead screener communicating with all families of refer babies, detailed communication with follow-up audiologists in the community and LTF tracking spreadsheets. As an audiology-based outsourcing company we are committed to having all stakeholders participate in the process so that babies awaiting diagnosis do not become lost. We will share Hearing Screening Associates’ statistics from Texas and Louisiana, indicating how HSA has been able to maintain low LTF numbers for 2020. According to healthychildren.org, the prevalence of hearing loss in 2018 was 1-3 per 1,000 babies screened for hearing loss. HSA 2020 data indicates 1.4 per 1000 for Texas and 2.4 per 1000 for Louisiana.
- Participants will be able to describe specific activities for improving overall “loss-to-follow-up”
- Participants will be able to describe how outsourcing can lower LTF.
- Participants will be able to discuss how outpatient rescreens affect LTF.
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Presenters/Authors
Wendy Jumonville
(Primary Presenter), Hearing Screening Associates, weju@teamhsa.com;
Wendy A. Jumonville has worked as a Pediatric Audiologist for more than 40 years. She worked at Denver Children’s Hospital and The Louisiana School for the Deaf. She was on faculty at LSU BR in The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders for 30 years. She provided contract services for 10 years to the Louisiana EHDI Team as an Outreach Specialist. Currently Wendy is Director of Screening Services for Hearing Screening Associates, a hearing screening outsourcing company providing services nationwide.
Masters in Audiology, Purdue University, 1983
Bachelor of Science, Speech and Hearing, St. Mary’s Dominican College, 1981
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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• Receives Salary for Management position from Hearing Screening Associates.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
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Financial relationship with Hearing Screening Associates.
Nature: Employee.
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Ashley Schilling
(Co-Presenter), Hearing Screening Associates, assn@teamhsa.com;
Ashley Schilling, AuD, CCC-A, has almost 20 years of experience in the field of Audiology, servicing both pediatric and adult populations. She has worked in private, medical, educational, and military settings. Most currently, she is the Assistant Director of Screening Services for Hearing Screening Associates, where she manages a team of audiologists and oversees the newborn hearing screening program in 25 hospitals across seven states.
Doctor of Audiology, University of Florida; 2007
Master of Arts, Audiology, Louisiana State University; 2002
Bachelor of Arts, Communication Disorders, Louisiana State University; 2000
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