The Medical Director engages in the professional, organizational, and administrative activities to provide quality care to clients based upon their medical and psycho-social needs. The Medical Director develops, implements, and evaluates the medical practice delivery model in accordance with specific goals. The responsibilities of the Medical Director are to be performed on a full-time basis and are designed to provide medical leadership, direction, and coordination in the provision of medical care and physician services. The Medical Director is the liaison between administration and the medical staff. The Medical Director assumes responsibility for all applicable Federal, State, and City regulations for the department. Salary range is $200-250K depending on experience.
KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Participating in planning, development, and organization of medical services provided.
- Meets with all scheduled patients efficiently and reviews scheduling with supervisor daily.
- Develops and reviews all medical policies related to patient care.
- Conduct physical examinations of patients upon their admission and thereafter on an annual, regular, and on an “as-needed-basis.”
- Review the completion and appropriateness of all intake documentation, including patient health history (i.e., other medications and allergies), drug abuse history, and previous treatment failures.
- Review and approval of initial needs assessment and patient initial treatment plans and reviews.
- Participates in preparation for regulatory agency site visits.
- Knowledge of Federal, State, and City regulatory requirements and ensures all aspects of clinical care conform to these requirements.
- Order, evaluate, adjust, and terminate prescription of medication dosages using sound medical, ethical, and responsible discretion and meet with the patient to discuss any adjustments in medication dosage.
- Reviews all accident/incidents related to patient care and provides input into actions necessary to resolve identified problems. Implements corrective actions as necessary and appropriate.
- Ensures physical participation in the Interdisciplinary Care Planning process.
- Prescription and provision of treatment in accordance with the patient's medical and mental condition and only upon their individual needs.
- Determine physiological opiate dependency upon admission and patient eligibility for admission to the program.
- Determine patient qualification and fitness for OTP replacement therapy and/or alternate medication-assisted therapy services needed. Establish buprenorphine service.
- Participate in weekly and on an “as-needed-basis” case conferencing sessions with MDT members to discuss preventative treatment measures to adverse changes as well as progress in the patient's medical condition.
- Assures medical staff compliance with all regulatory and licensure guidelines.
- Ensures compliance of all members of the medical staff with the rules, regulations, and bylaws of the Medical Department. Assures medical staff competence with all applicable policies and procedures of the facility and initiates action in cases of non-compliance.
- Participating in the comprehensive care planning, discharge planning, and client and staff development by providing ongoing medical training and education to staff.
- Providing medical assessment, consultation, treatment, and referrals that facilitate comprehensive and coordinated patient care.
- Providing crisis intervention and consultation on medical/psychiatric emergencies.
- Assessing client's need for hospitalization and consultation with the client's Primary Care Provider to include other care providers the patient is linked with and/or referred to.
- Reviewing all patient medication and, if indicated, prescribing medication in consultation with the client's Primary Care Provider upon patient need.
- Providing the Program Director with reports on recommendations concerning the medical services.
- Sharing in the administrative functions that directly impact medical services; collaborating with the management team in overall planning and budget activities; assuring delivery of quality care services to all patients in a respectful and professional manner.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Currently licensed and registered as a physician with the New York State Education Department with admitting privileges to at least one geographically accessible acute care hospital, in good standing.
- NYS Licensure to practice medicine.
- PhD/MD/JD.
- Board Certified/Board Eligible in Medicine, Family Medicine.
- Current with the Continuing Medical Education (“CME”) licensure requirements.
- Current, relevant, and substantial knowledge of areas related to health center licensing and operations, e.g., legal/regulatory, administrative, policy, protocols, and other clinical issues, especially within a managed care environment, required.
- Previous experience providing services and exercising leadership in a culturally and linguistically diverse setting, with demonstrated success.
- Culturally aware and sensitive to the special needs of the population.
- Experience working in a setting that promotes interdisciplinary care planning.
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