Health Facilities Inspector

The Bureau of Health Care Quality & Compliance, Medical Laboratory Services has a vacancy for a Health Facilities Inspector III. This position will serve as the medical laboratory and medical laboratory personnel licensing and regulatory supervisor. This position is responsible for supervising medical laboratory services inspectors and administrative support staff. This position is responsible for ensuring inspections are completed in accordance with state and federal laws, regulations and Division of Public and Behavioral Heath (Division) policies and procedures, providing technical support to other staff, the public and medical laboratories, ensuring all work is performed in accordance with established time frames, assisting with special projects, regulation development, and putting together and submitting any required reports such as those that are required to be submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, overseeing federal and state audits of the medical laboratory services unit, overseeing medical laboratory advisory committee workload and acting as the liaison between the Division and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

This position oversees both the state and federal components of the medical laboratory services unit.

For purposes of initial licensing or ongoing regulatory compliance, Health Facilities Inspectors conduct inspections of health care facilities and services such as hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, inmate medical care in prisons and transitional living facilities, intermediate care facilities, home health agencies, health care referral agencies, community triage centers, facilities for refractive laser surgery, ambulatory surgical centers, facilities for treatment of irreversible renal disease, medical laboratories, independent physician offices, rural health clinics, hospices, comprehensive outpatient rehabilitative facilities, outpatient physical therapy facilities, adult day care and group care facilities, alcohol and drug abuse treatment centers and half-way houses, obstetrical centers, independent centers for emergency medical care, rehabilitation clinics, occupational and physical therapists, and other facilities and practitioners as directed.

Examples of areas for inspection include health care services; policies and procedures regarding admission, discharge, and resident rights; and life safety code compliance.

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in public health, health care or business administration, the medical or biological sciences, criminal justice, or a specialty field identified for the specific recruitment such as dietetics, facilities construction and maintenance, finance or accounting, medical technology, social work or social science, and three years of professional experience as an inspector or surveyor in a health-related accrediting organization or in a federal or state regulatory compliance program which involved the inspection, licensing, or complaint investigation of health care facilities to determine compliance with federal or State laws and regulations, one year of which was equivalent to the Health Facilities Inspector 2 level in Nevada State service;

OR one year of experience as a Health Facilities Inspector 2 in Nevada State service; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience as described above.

Conduct inspections of assigned facilities independently or as part of a multi-disciplinary or multi-agency team through review of records, interviews, and observations to evaluate compliance with federal and/or State laws and regulations pertaining to licensure, permitting, certification, Medicare and/or Medicaid.

Inspect laboratory services including independent reference laboratories, physician office laboratories, and locations where testing is performed; review the qualifications of laboratory directors and other personnel; evaluate compliance with federal and State requirements for laboratories including the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); conduct complaint investigations.

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