Medical Director - Hospice - San Diego

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Full Time Hospice San Diego San Diego, CA, US

5 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $175.00 To $225.00 Annually

The Hospice Medical Director will have overall responsibility for the medical component of the hospice program. The Hospice Medical Director will provide oversight of physician services by complementing attending physician care, acting as a medical resource to the interdisciplinary group, assuring continuity of hospice medical services, and assuring appropriate measures to control patient symptoms. The Hospice Medical Director will serve as a hospice champion promoting and representing the program to physicians, physician groups, discharge planners, other referral sources, community health organizations, and potential donors, as appropriate.

The duties and responsibilities of the Hospice Medical Director will include, but not be limited to,

the following:

• Devoting his/her best ability to the proper management of the program.
• Providing overall medical direction to the program.
• Assuring that the established policies, bylaws, rules, and regulations of the organization are followed in the program.
• Adhering to requirements, terms, and conditions required by Medicare Conditions of Participation, accrediting body, and federal and state statutes governing the provision of services.
• Establishing and continually reviewing policies and procedures related to patient care, medical education, and emergency procedures.
• Developing and continually reviewing, in cooperation with the Executive Director/ Administrator and /or Clinical Director/ Director of Patient Care Services criteria to monitor the quality of the education programs provided to physicians, personnel, and volunteers.
• Evaluating quality assessment performance improvement (QAPI) plans and monitoring to identify medical education needs in cooperation with the Executive Director/ Administrator and/or Clinical Director/ Director of Patient Care Services. Participates in QAPI teams and activities, as needed.
• Proposing organizational programs to address the needs identified (with the assistance and input of consultants of the specialties where medical education needs were identified).
• Working with the Executive Director/ Administrator and/or Clinical Director/ Director of Patient Care Services, after implementation of the programs, to determine the impact of said programs on the quality of care.
• Serving as a hospice champion in the community.
• Acting as a liaison to community physicians by providing consultation and education to colleagues and attending physicians related to admission criteria for hospice and palliative care.
• Providing training regarding the medical aspects of caring for terminally ill patients to physicians, personnel, and volunteers
• Reviewing patients’ medical eligibility for hospice services, in accordance with hospice program policies and procedures, and establishing the plan of care in conjunctions with attending physician and interdisciplinary group prior to providing care written certification of terminal illness.
• Providing written certification of terminal illness for all subsequent benefit periods.
• Perform face to face encounters within thirty (30) days of the third and subsequent hospice benefit certification periods and attest to the encounter. (NP may complete the encounter and report findings to the hospice physician).
• Consulting with attending physicians regarding pain and symptoms management for hospice patients.
• Managing oversight of the patient’s medications and treatments
• Acting as medical resource to…