RN / Hospice Job in Atlanta, Georgia
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Description
I believe that the care we give can make every moment count.
Compassionate care, uncompromising service and clinical excellence – that’s how our Hospice improves quality of life in the final stages of life. By delivering palliative care by hospice professionals, our patients can spend their remaining days in comfort and peace. Kindred at Home, a division of Kindred Healthcare Inc., is the nation’s leading provider of comprehensive home health, hospice, and non-medical home care services.
Kindred at Home, and its affiliates, including Gentiva, delivers compassionate, high-quality care to patients and clients in their homes or places of residence, including non-medical personal assistance, skilled nursing and rehabilitation and hospice and palliative care. Our caregivers focus on each unique patient to deliver the appropriate care and emotional support to our patients and their families.
We believe that every moment matters. We believe in compassionate care. Most of all, we believe in dignity and respect for each patient we serve.
As a Clinical Manager Specialist for our Hospice Division, you will:
Coordinate and oversee all direct and indirect patient/client services provided by clinical staff.
Define and communicate expectations regarding quality provision of services and productivity to interdisciplinary team to assist them in continually improving all aspects of Company services.
Provide regular communication with the hospice staff, including clinical staff, regarding pertinent organizational and clinical issues.
Be responsible for the oversight of the assessment and evaluation, intervention and documentation of patient and family needs.
Manage the CQI program as directed. This would include conducting a quarterly Designated IDT/CQI and safety committee meeting, coordinating with committee members on assigned surveys and audits, ensuring the completion of all required audit results and reports (per CQI Plan), and completing meeting minutes and maintain the CQI Manual.
Ensure Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) staffing meets requirements of Company ratios per census.
Oversee maintenance of patient/client clinical records, statistics, reports and records for purposes of evaluation and reporting of agency activities ensuring all patient medical record documentation is present per Company HealthCare Policy and Procedures and in compliance with local, state and federal law.
Be responsible for management of DME, labor, mileage, and supply costs within budget.
Assure compliance with local, state and federal laws, Medicare regulations, HIPAA and established Company HealthCare policies and procedures.
Maintain Company Quality Improvement Program in conjunction with CQI Manager.
Qualifications
Registered Nurse (RN)
Bachelor’s degree
Minimum of two years clinical management experience, including the supervision of nursing staff
Minimum of three years hospice, home health or related organization experience preferred with understanding of hospice care provided through an interdisciplinary team
Compliance with accepted professional standards and practices
Ability to work in an interdisciplinary setting
Excellent written and verbal skills
Demonstrate good organizational, people and problem solving skills
Knowledge and understanding of reimbursement/appeal processes
Proficient in basic PC skills. Microsoft Word and Excel
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