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HESP Alumna Offers Advice on Safe Listening
Lindsay Creed reflects on her time at UMD, and shares what she thinks everyone should know about protecting their hearing. Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences (HESP) alum Lindsay Creed ‘10 fell in love with audiology while on a different path, at a different university—studying botany, microbiology, and zoology at the Miami University of Ohio.
CMS Publishes Expanded Coverage for Cochlear Implants Under Medicare
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have recently published details on its decision to expand coverage for cochlear implants under Medicare. This provides a significant improvement in access to care for older adults who are Medicare beneficiaries allowing individuals with hearing test scores between >40% and ≤60% to qualify for cochlear implantation.
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Wearing hearing aids could reduce your risk of dying earlier
For people with hearing loss, regular use of hearing aids could reduce the risk of dying earlier by 24 percent vs. not wearing them at all
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HESP Clinic Partnership Provides Hearing Aids to 150 Holocaust Survivors | BSOS Annual Update
Congratulations to Lisa Rickard for HESP's Hearing Aids for Holocaust Survivors program reaching 150 clients and being featured in the BSOS Annual Update.
