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 700,000 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.
Work Shifts
9:00 A.M - 5:00 P.M
No weekends.
Duties & Responsibilities
Under direction, develops, plans, coordinates and monitors professional and medical aspects related to the delivery of health care services and ensures the maintenance and attainment of quality care, as required under federal, state and local legislation. In collaboration with appropriate leadership, formulates and evaluates programs and projects of the Office and supervises the functional programming activities directed toward accomplishing departmental objectives.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Formulates and develops methods and procedures for monitoring, evaluating, implementing and operating health care programs and services in assigned areas of responsibility to ensure attainment of quality care and to meet mandated legislative and administrative standards.
- Monitors and coordinates the review processes of assigned health care programs to determine if programs are meeting the health care needs, objectives and goals established by the Department.
- Coordinates functional activities of a Department and maintains liaison with internal and external sources.
- Reviews experimental models and design for health care delivery systems to ensure delivery of quality care standards.
- Provides guidance to health care settings for establishment and maintenance of utilization review, quality assurance and discharge planning programs, which comply with state, federal and The Joint Commission requirements and counsels to resolve operational issues.
- Reviews city, state and federal regulations relating to compliance and advises personnel on compliance improvement for health care programs.
- Designs and/or reviews performance audits and makes recommendations to improve effectiveness and assess quality standards of health care delivery.
- Provides advisory and consultative services to System, health care settings and their staff, as needed, on matters affecting health care programs, standards, and services.
- Advises
Director and/or other appropriate leadership on policy and procedural changes, utilization and development of staff, implementation of productivity goals, and makes recommendations for improvements in the design of assigned health care programs.
- Participates in meetings, may plan conferences, seminars with health care groups, medical and professional health care organizations and health care setting medical authorities related to special medical programs, health care standards and practices.
- Supervises staff assigned to departmental activities or units and provides professional and administrative direction.
Minimum Qualifications
1. Master's degree from an accredited college or university in Hospital, Health, Public or Business Administration, Healthcare Management, Public Health or a related discipline; and four (4) years of full-time, paid progressively responsible experience in hospital administration with an emphasis on the development and evaluation of health care delivery services; or
2. Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in disciplines, as listed in #1 above; and five (5) years of full-time, paid experience, as described in #1 above.
Department Preferences
- Knowledge and experience in the Special Pathogens Program
- Ability to use EPIC Bugsy to enter, abstract and analyze data and run reports
- Ability to use NHSN to enter data, perform analyses and run reports
- Knowledge of and ability to submit data to NYCDOH PRISM and NYSDOH NORA and HERDS programs
Benefits
NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
- Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
- Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
- Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
- Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
- College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
- College Savings Program
- Union Benefits for eligible titles
- Multiple employee discounts programs
- Commuter Benefits Programs
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