Nursing Home Medical Director (Physician )
Company: Essen Health Care
Location: Bronx
Posted on: January 28, 2023
Job Description:
Medical Director opening in Bronx, New York. Essen Health Care
is seeking at Essen is seeking a full-time Medical Director to
oversee various Nursing Home within Essen The Nursing Home Medical
Director will oversee the daily operations of various Nursing Homes
and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams at Essen. In this
role, your responsibilities will include staffing, financial
management, supervising resident care, marketing, and community
outreach. A thorough knowledge of federal, state, and local
standards for long-term care is a necessity. The selected candidate
serves in this leadership role which offers opportunity for
teaching and mentoring. Ensure the facility's compliance with the
rules and regulations of government and accrediting bodies with
potential innovative pilot projects, but not limited to:
- Collaborates with the facility leadership, staff, and other
practitioners and consultants to help develop, implement and
evaluate resident care policies and procedures that reflect current
standards of practice;
- Assess the current resident population and identify current
programmatic and educational needs.
- Develop new clinical programs as the resident population
change.
- Facility identify, evaluate, and address/resolve medical and
clinical concerns and issues which may affect resident care,
medical care or quality of life.
- Implementing resident medical care policies.
- Coordinating physician services and medical care in the
facility.
- Coordinating the review, prior to granting or renewing
professional privileges or association, of any physician, dentist
or podiatrist;
- Assuring that each resident's responsible physician attends to
the resident's medical needs.
- Collaborating with the health care team including the
pharmacist, dentist and other clinical consultants.
- The medical director sustains his or her professional
development through self-directed and continuing education.
- Assist the facility educate and train its staff in areas that
are relevant to providing high quality patient care.
- Serves as a resource regarding geriatric medicine and other
carerelated topics, and helps the staff and practitioner identify
and access relevant educational resources (e.g., books, periodicals
and articles).
- Informs attending physicians about policies and procedures and
state and federal regulations, including updates.
- Advise Essen Health Care operating staff and participates when
necessary in the development of contact relationships with other
health care delivery systems.
- Participate in ongoing clinician in-service training
- Assure quality and safe service for patients and staff by
enforcing policies, procedures, standard, rules, Joint Commission
for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations requirements, and
legal regulations.
- Serves as a resource regarding geriatric medicine and other
carerelated topics, and helps the staff and practitioner identify
and access relevant educational resources (e.g., books, periodicals
and articles). The successful candidates will have the following
Qualifications:
- Doctor of Medicine (MD)
- Board Eligible/Board Certified
- Formally recognized qualification in geriatric medicine.
- Board-certified with demonstrable experience as a geriatric
physician.
- Certification Medical Director in Long Term Care (AMDA CMD)
strongly preferred
- Local/state regulations and certifications, Continuing Medical
Education (CME)
- Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
requirements must be met.
- Experience Managing in Long-Term Care settings Founded in 1999,
Essen provides care in all five boroughs of New York City, with a
primary focus in the Bronx. Staffed by over 300 primary and
specialty care physicians and advanced clinicians, Essen Health
Care is one of the largest, most comprehensive private medical
groups in New York City. Essen maintains a Clinical Information
Services team that maintains our enterprise-wide electronic medical
record system, data repository, clinical analytics and population
health capabilities. Our Community Services teams creates and
sustains relationship with community organizations and agencies and
health plans. Essen is dedicated to ensuring the quality of care
for all patients and has been designated Level 3 Patient Centered
Medical Home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Essen
has won awards for its patient care innovations and recently
launched Intention Health Ventures to develop and commercialize our
technology innovations. Essen Health Care is a growing community
healthcare network provides high quality, compassionate, and
accessible medical care to some of the most vulnerable and
under-served residents of New York State. Guided by a population
health model of care, Essen has five integrated clinical divisions
offering services in primary & specialty offices, urgent care
centers, and nursing homes, as well as house calls for home bound
patients; all clinical services are also offered via telehealth.
Our Care Management division supports patient-centered care through
care coordination, complex care management and helping address
health-related social needs. Essen Health care is proud to be an
equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to
work in and serve an ethnically diverse
Keywords: Essen Health Care, New Rochelle , Nursing Home Medical Director (Physician ), Executive , Bronx, New York
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