Swallowing evaluations
done right, wherever your patients are.
Mobile FEES Swallow Diagnostics brings high resolution, endoscopic swallowing studies directly to hospitals, rehab facilities, and skilled nursing facilities across Arkansas, SW Missouri & NE Oklahoma.
Who we work with...
Facilities and referral sources: when a resident is struggling to swallow and you need more than a guess @ bedside, we bring the swallow study to you.
SLPs: if you want to sharpen your dysphagia management skills & learn more about becoming an endoscopist...there's a place for you here too.
About Danni and the practice...
A little about me, and how Mobile FEES started. I've spent 26 years as a Medical SLP, most of it in rural Missouri and Arkansas where instrumental swallow studies were hard to come by. Patients waited months for a study, drove an hour for one, or went without and got managed on guesswork.
That never sat right with me.
Mobile FEES Swallow Diagnostics is my answer to that. I load up the scope, drive to the facility, and give your team a clear look at what's actually happening when your patient is swallowing.
I believe in FEES in the Wild, because good instrumental assessment shouldn't only live inside a hospital in a city.
I'm also a private practice owner of "Thrive Neuro Therapy" In Fort Smith, AR and a past president of the Arkansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ArkSHA).
I currently serve on ArkSHA’s Payer Advocacy Committee and we are actively working on increased access to instrumentals, rural health initiatives, and advocating for SLPs to help mitigate reductions in reimbursement.
Swallowing diagnostics & advocacy work is my passion and I've built my practice around it.
What is Mobile FEES?
FEES stands for Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing. A thin, flexible scope passes through the nose (in the same path where an NG feeding tube would go) to give a direct view of the throat while your patient eats and drinks.
FEES allows for visualization of the swallow as it happens...how secretions are managed, whether food or liquid is going where it shouldn't, how well the airway is protected, and which textures are safest.
The whole evaluation happens onsite, usually in the patient's own room.
No transport, no radiation exposure or barium, & no waiting weeks for an outpatient appointment.
You get findings and recommendations you can act on the same day.
Benefits of Mobile FEES
- Direct visualization at the bedside, so dysphagia decisions rest on a clear view of the swallow.
- Same-day findings and diet recommendations (for most patients), for faster and safer choices
- No transport burden on fragile patients, families, or your staff.
- Documentation that supports your clinical decisions, survey readiness, & improves therapeutic outcomes.
- A swallowing specialist your SLPs can think through hard cases with.
SLPs
Join me for Dysphagia Grand Rounds, a monthly
live case review where a small group of SLPs
works through real FEES cases together.
Monthly on the 3rd Wednesday at 3PM- 430PM
CST.
Live & recorded in case you cannot make it.
Have questions about competency training or
adding FEES to your practice?
There's a live Q & A at the end of the call!
Have a difficult case?
Email de-identified info to
danni@mobilefeesnwa.com &
we will go through your case during the call.
Learn more about interpretation of Flexible
Endoscopic Evaluation of
Swallowing (FEES) & how to improve clinical
reasoning, recommendations for therapeutic
exercises & interventions.
