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Region Quality Specialist: Kindred Healthcare

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Job ID	023227
Company Name	Kindred Healthcare
Job Category	Healthcare
Location	Salt Lake City, UT
Position Type	Full-Time, Employee
Experience	5-10 Years Experience
Desired Education Level	Other
Date Posted	October 17, 2009 (Reposted Dec 6)

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At Kindred Healthcare, our mission is to promote healing, provide hope, preserve dignity and produce value for each patient, resident, family member, customer, employee and shareholder we serve. Kindred Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:KND) is a healthcare services company, based in Louisville, Kentucky, with annual revenues of over $4 billion. At March 31, 2008, Kindred through its subsidiaries provided healthcare services in 646 locations in 40 states. Kindred's 52,900 employees are committed to providing high quality patient care and outstanding customer service to become the most trusted and respected provider of healthcare services in every community we serve. For more information, go to www.kindredhealthcare.com. An Equal Opportunity Employer. Drug Free Workplace.

About the Opportunity:
Provides support, training, expert clinical and technical advice in the areas of regulation and standards of resident care and clinical practice. Provides consultation to district and nursing center staff to ensure compliance with Federal and State regulations and Kindred standards of resident care and clinical practice. In addition, provides oversight and coordination of the focus facilities in the region. Ensures corrective measures are developed and implemented.

Qualifications:

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Nursing or Health related field

Licenses/Certification:

Licensed as a Registered Nurse in state(s) of practice

Experience:

5-10 years of experience with 5 years in nursing management position and multi nursing center oversight and responsibility

Essential Functions:

Functions as team leader for the Regional Quality Focus Team.
Provides identified centers (focus facilities) with training, mentoring, and process monitoring to achieve sustained compliance. Assists centers to achieve sustained quality improvements as evidenced by an effective performance improvement process. Assesses, plans, develops, coordinates, implements, and evaluates clinical operations and performance improvement systems.
Reviews, recommends and directs the implementation of clinical policies and procedures to reflect current rules and regulations that govern nursing center systems and clinical practice.
Provides oversight and validates readiness for standard survey and follow-up survey as directed.
Monitors nursing center compliance with Federal, State, and local requirements. Reviews regulatory survey reports and provides consultation to district and center staff to facilitate improvement and to resolve deficiencies.
Coordinates the appropriate regional and district staff to conduct focus facility visits and reviews, identifying risk factors, coordinating and implementing action plans to minimize liability and risk. Provides consultation in the development of plans of correction and aggressive follow-up on repeat, recurrent deficiencies.
Provides training to district and nursing center staff to address identified clinical and practice issues based on discussion and/or on-site visits, as necessary and/or as requested.
Functions as a member of the regional team in the development, implementation and evaluation of plans to correct identified areas of opportunity.
Maintains and makes available current resources regarding state of the art technology, clinical practices, and protocols, rules and regulations, and standards that impact clinical operations.
Collaborates with company clinical and operational professionals to coordinate and improve company clinical operations.
Assists in the recruitment, interviewing, selection, orientation, and performance appraisal of nursing center and district staff, as appropriate.
Maintains current knowledge of geriatric and nursing rehabilitative clinical practice. Maintains current knowledge of Kindred policies and procedures. Maintains current knowledge of applicable Medicare, and state Medicaid regulations, reimbursement systems and methodology and standards for long term care.
Serves on Division or Region Committees and Workgroups as assigned. In the absence of the Regional Vice President of Clinical Operations, performs duties as necessary.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Clinical knowledge of current nursing practice, long-term care regulations, and current clinical policies and procedures.
Ability to teach, train, instruct and mentor others.
Computer literate, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Writer.
Ability to travel extensively 60% - 80%, via automobile and air or public transportation.

*Kindred Healthcare proudly supports Affirmative Action. Drug-free work environment

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