Medical Director
- Employer
- The Washington Home & Community Hospices
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Posted Date
- Nov 7, 2017
- Reference
- 1115
View more
- Specialty
- Palliative Care
- Position Type
- Permanent
Job Details
The role of Medical Director is the centerpiece in the Medicare Hospice.
Conditions of Participation. He/She is responsible to assist the CEO or COO in the administration of The Washington Home and Community Hospices clinical services program and oversee the medical component of the hospice plan of care for each patient. The Medical Director is responsible for providing clinical leadership and expertise to the hospice IDT, in order to provide the highest level of quality patient medical care and palliation. The Medical Director will facilitate a culture of collaboration among all medical and nursing staff involved with hospice patient care, build relationships with referring physicians to ensure integration of primary and palliative medicine and with community specialists as needed. The Medical Director will identify opportunities to improve care delivery, use resources effectively, and comply with legal, regulatory, and clinical policies and procedures, and liaison with the local medical community.
Company
In 1888, The Washington Home for Incurables was founded by Mrs. Charles Hill, niece of philanthropist William Corcoran (originator of the Corcoran Gallery and co-founder of Riggs National Bank) to care for Washington DC’s poor, chronically ill people who had nowhere else to go.
From our beginning, we’ve been healthcare pioneers. We built larger facilities, expanded staff, added services, and cared for more and more people. When Medicare and Medicaid were enacted in 1965, ours was the first facility in the District of Columbia to be certified for reimbursement. We cared for cancer patients in the 1940’s when cancer was believed to be highly contagious.
In 1978, we admitted our first patient into our inpatient hospice unit – one of the first in the country and the only one in the District – to comfort people in the final stages of their lives. We began offering home hospice care in 1986, and, in 2001, we acquired Medstar Health’s Visiting Nurse Association’s hospice program and began providing home hospice care to residents of the District, Maryland, and Virginia.
After 113 years of service, in 2001, The Washington Home for Incurables adopted a new name: The Washington Home & Community Hospices.
In 2015, The Washington Home & Community Hospices’ Board of Directors reached the decision to sell our Northwest DC property by the end of 2016 in order to serve more residents in the metropolitan area in their own homes.
By December 16, 2016, we phased out our long-term residential nursing home and rehabilitation programs and expanded our hospice care to service more of our community in Washington, DC and Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in Maryland
- Website
- https://www.communityhospices.org/
- Telephone
- 202-895-0137
- Location
-
3720 Upton Street NW
Washington
DC
20016
US
Get job alerts
Create a job alert and receive personalized job recommendations straight to your inbox.
Create alert