9 Health Care jobs

Job description Manages activities of the unit(s), monitors quality, service and utilization standards. Supervises the day to day shift activities. Essential Responsibilities: Manages the units day to day clinical operations including practice standards, staffing, payroll, budgets, fiscal management, and quality improvement.  Ensures the highest quality of care is provided and is in compliance with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements and established departmental policies and procedures. Develops and implements action plans to improve staff development. Supervises a single unit (8 to 24 hours) of approximately 20 - 60+ employees. Monitors the allocation and utilization of personnel based on continual changes in patient population/needs and provides the best level of patient care while identifying savings opportunities. Supervises the daily unit operations, including human resources management, department and employee safety...

Job description Job Summary: Plans, develops, and implements provisions of quality nursing care for efficient operation of 24-hour, 7-days-a-week unit. Serves as manager, practitioner, educator, mentor, and consultant. Guides nursing leadership toward excellence in practice. Serves as role model. Supervises assigned staff. Essential Responsibilities: Responds to patient/family complaints. Fulfills role of advocate for patients and families. Monitors and coordinates patient care provided by nursing on 24-hour basis. Provides nursing consultation to unit staff, peers, other hospital personnel, adjunct staff and nursing students and instructors. Responds to unit emergencies. Directs staff in crisis situation. Fulfills role of nursing staff advocate. Listens to staff concerns. Responds in clear, calm, consistent and timely manner. Ensures staff development. Coordinates unit in-services to meet identified core and unit focused competencies....

Job description Job Summary: In collaboration with Anesthesia and Surgical Services (SAS) management team, participates in developing, planning, implementing of departmental goals and objectives. Assess, plans, implements, evaluates and ensures optimal patient care is delivered to surgical patients according to established standards of care provided during all operative phases of process. Provides and supports functional direction through effective leadership and Quality Improvement principles to insure quality patient care and employee satisfaction.   Plans, directs, and supervises daily operational activities of assigned staff in Operating Rooms. Serves as a liaison between supervisors, physicians, nursing personnel, patients/families and other departments to direct smooth transitions of patient care activities during perioperative experience. Coordinates departmental activities to ensure optimum patient care. Directs flow of Surgical Schedule. Supervises...

Job description Acting as an expert resource/consultant in one or more than one care setting (primary, secondary, tertiary, continuing care), the Infection Prevention Professional/Epidemiologist contributes to the provision of high quality patient care by promoting and implementing infection prevention and control practices and compliance with regulatory agency requirements. Through interdisciplinary and collaborative actions, evaluates occupational health exposures/issues and assists with the determination of proper care and planning related to infection prevention and control; participates in the identification, prevention and control of infections by data collection, surveillance and analysis, development of verbal and written reports, educational programs for personnel and patients as needed. Serves as a liaison with the Department of Health Services and reports communicable diseases as required. Participates in research on infection control issues related at the...

Job description Responsible for the planning, oversight and implementation of a medical center/facilitys integrated workplace safety and environmental, health and safety programs and all related initiatives, policies and procedures. This position leads the safety function for the medical center/facility and drives its success in workplace safety and environmental, health and safety metrics. Works in synergy with all other performance improvement programs and organizational goals. Directs all efforts to ensure highest levels of employee and member safety. Responsible for occupational safety and environmental, health and safety regulatory compliance. Essential Responsibilities: Develops, manages, oversees and monitors all aspects of KPs safety program to achieve safety goals and ensure compliance to organization and regulatory requirements. Conducts planning to ensure the execution of the optimum business process integration of environmental, health and safety...

Job description $10,000 sign-on bonus eligible position! Provides inpatient and intensive outpatient case management for high-risk, high-utilizing members with acute and/or chronic psychiatric conditions across the continuum of care. Develops treatment and care plans for the  specific population. Essential Responsibilities: Plans, develops, coordinates, assesses, and evaluates services provided to members   to promote quality and cost effective outcomes. Develops and maintains case management policies and procedures to assure optimal and appropriate member utilization of services. Coordinates the interdisciplinary approach to providing continuity of care, including utilization management, transfer coordination, discharge planning, and obtaining all authorizations/approvals for outside services. Participates in the development of care paths. As an Intensive Case Manager coordinates the care of a large caseload of high risk...

Job description Responsible for the planning, oversight and implementation of a medical center/facilitys integrated workplace safety and environmental, health and safety programs and all related initiatives, policies and procedures. This position leads the safety function for the medical center/facility and drives its success in workplace safety and environmental, health and safety metrics. Works in synergy with all other performance improvement programs and organizational goals. Directs all efforts to ensure highest levels of employee and member safety. Responsible for occupational safety and environmental, health and safety regulatory compliance. Essential Responsibilities: Develops, manages, oversees and monitors all aspects of KPs safety program to achieve safety goals and ensure compliance to organization and regulatory requirements. Conducts planning to ensure the execution of the optimum business process integration of environmental, health and safety...

Job description The manager of Surgical Services is responsible for managing the daily unit operations of designated units within the division of Surgical Services. This could include either an inpatient unit at KSMC/KWMC or one of the ASC's. The area of specialization will be provided through the job posting process; this job description will cover all areas. Essential Responsibilities: CLINICAL PRACTICE: Acts as an expert resource and role model for the staff. Creates, modifies and evaluates policies and procedures based on clinical practice guidelines. Ensures care delivery in unit meets these guidelines through competency based assessment of all staff at time of hire and ongoing. Uses quality outcomes to ensure safe procedural care of patient in perioperative/interventional arena. Supports ongoing education and professional growth of self and staff. Stays current with practice changes and communicates to staff. PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT: Interviews,...

Job description You could be the one who changes everything for our 26 million members. This company is transforming the health of our communities, one person at a time. As a diversified, national organization, you’ll have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.   Position Purpose: Perform duties related to the day to day operations of the Integrated Case Management functions to include working with members identified as high risk to identify needs and goals to achieve empowerment and improved quality of life for both behavioral and physical health issues. Assess members’ current functional level and, in collaboration with the member, develop and monitor the Case Management Care Plan, monitor quality of care; assisting with discharge planning, participating in special clinical projects and communicate with departmental and plan administrative staff to facilitate daily operations of the Integrated Case...