Director of Health Care Standards Position Available In New York, New York

Director of Health Care Standards Department

CARDIOLOGY SERVICE

Location
Manhattan
Job

ID123043

Civil Service ClassificationManagerial
Hire In Rate$145,000.00 (for employees new to HHC) Salary Range$145,000.00 – $160,000.00 Pay FrequencyAnnual
Full/Part TimeFull-Time Regular/TemporaryRegular
Regular ShiftDay About NYC Health + Hospitals NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is America’s oldest public hospital, established in 1736. Affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, the 844-bed hospital is a major referral center for highly complex cases, with its 6,000 employees including highly skilled, interdisciplinary clinical staff. It sees more than 110,000 emergency room visits and 500,000 outpatient visits annually. Bellevue is an academic medical institution of international renown. We have served as an incubator for major innovations in public health, medical science, and medical education. Bellevue is a Level I Trauma Center delivering around-the-clock care in adult, pediatric, psychiatric and pediatric psychiatric emergencies as well as in the nationally-designated categories of cardiology, neurology, toxicology, and neonatology. In addition to providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient state-of-the-art care Bellevue is a city-wide medical specialty referral source. Bellevue’s clinical centers of excellence include: Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care; Cardiovascular Services; Designated Regional Perinatal Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (ICU); Comprehensive Children’s Psychiatric Emergency Program; and Cancer Services. At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons. Job Description Under general supervision by the Director of the Coronary Care Unit, this critical care and ECMO trained nurse practitioner (NP) is responsible for all aspects of monitoring and troubleshooting the ECMO circuit and related equipment during the treatment period in addition to providing care to the general CCU/Cardiac Stepdown patient. The ECMO/Cardiac NP is also responsible for collaborating with bedside RNs, physicians, and other members of the health care team to coordinate care for these very complex patients in the CCU.

Job Responsibilities:

Develops and promulgates policies, procedural guidelines, evaluative and monitoring techniques designed to insure the attainment of objectives and goals established by the Office of Health Care Standards.
Directs the design, development and implementation of health care standards, programs and projects and provides health care facilities with requisite advisory, consultative technical, professional services related to EMO
Effects necessary changes in program design, standards and monitoring techniques for purposes of improving medical resources and related medical programs in delivery of
Provides advisory and consultative services to Directors in promulgation of performance standards, evaluation studies and performance audits in attaining objectives and goals of
Provides advisory and consultative services to the Corporate units whose operations impact on utilization review/quality assurance programs to promote consistent and equitable
program standards and compatibility and conformity to Federal and State mandatory requirements. Establishes and maintains a computerized network system to monitor and evaluate the quality of medical services delivered, the allocation of medical resources provided by physicians in the health care facilities as part of an overall programmatic approach to determine whether medical objectives and goals are being attained. Conducts and participates in meetings, conferences, seminars with medical groups such as State Medical societies, nursing associations, PSRO organizations and hospital medical authorities related to program, practices and standards.
Plans, develops and participates in ECMO training programs for medical and medical-related staff. All other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications 1. Graduation from an approved School of Medicine and completion of an approved residency and Board eligible; and, 2. N.Y. State license; and, 3. Five years of full-time paid experience in a responsible medical and clinical administrative and/or managerial capacity; or, 4. A Master’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Hospital Administration, Health Care Planning, Public Health, Administrative Medicine, Business Administration, Public Administration or approved related program; and, 5. Eight years of progressively responsible experience in health and medical services administration, of which at least four years must have been in a managerial or administrative capacity. How To Apply If you wish to apply for this position,