Executive Director Hospice

Executive Director Hospice

We are hiring for an Executive Director for Hospice.

At Community Loving Care Hospice, a part of LHC Group, we embrace a culture of caring, belonging, and trust and enjoy themeaningful connections that come from it: for the whole patient, their families,each other, and the communities we serveit truly is all about helping people.You can find a home for your career here.?

?As a Field Leader, you can expect:

• leadership and engagement with diverse teams across the operation
• opportunities to create strategies that drive best-in-class care for patients & families
• flexibility for true work-life balance
• career and leadership development

?If you love nursing and have an interest in healthcare operations, this is a great opportunity for you.

• Responsible for compliance with all hospice regulations, laws, policies and procedures, including regulations related to the Medicare and Medicaid hospice benefit, as well as any requirements related to private or managed care insurance.
• Ensures that the hospice agency employs only qualified hospice personnel. Recruits and hires adequate and qualified personnel to care for patients and their families during all service hours to ensure quality care and customer satisfaction.
• Present on-site during business hours or immediately available by telephone when off-site conducting agency business and available after hours, as needed. When not available on-site nor by telephone, the alternate administrator assumes the Executive Director oversight role.
• Directs the day-to-day operations of the agency and acts as the driver for the patient care management process.
• Oversees all patient care activities to assure compliance with current standards of accepted nursing and medical practice and regulatory standards on a constant basis.
• Ensures that patient care services are provided according to the plan of care, as ordered by the physician.
• If a licensed healthcare professional, may provide clinical oversight and supervision according to licensure type, scope of practice, and state regulatory guidelines.
• Participates as a member of the hospice agency Governing Body and facilitates Governing Body meetings that support review and discussion of the hospice agency pillar activities and operations.
• Acts as liaison between staff, patients, families, the hospice management team and the hospice Governing Body.
• Provides oversight of hospice billing processes to ensure billing practices meet regulatory requirements and reflect patient care provided.
• Ensures adequate staffing through recruitment and retention activities.
• Ensures timely completion of hospice agency staff evaluations.
• Identifies education needs and ensures adequate staff education.
• Reviews monthly financials and cost management reports relative to all aspects of the operation to ensure that quality patient care is delivered in the most cost-effective manner.
• Oversees the hospice agency quality assurance performance improvement program, to include use of objective data to improve performance in the areas of improved patient/family care and activities related to patient health and safety. Specific performance improvement activities include, but are not limited to, root cause analysis and development of action plans and focused performance improvement projects.
• Ensures that staff personnel files are maintained according to state and federal guidelines, as well as accreditation standards, if applicable.
• Completes required courses through LHC Group learning management system and attends in-services, when applicable.
• Functions as a preceptor to new hires as needed, and according to discipline-specific licensure guidelines, if applicable.
• Oversees and/or directly investigates all patient complaints, and alleged or real violations involving mistreatment, neglect, or verbal, mental, sexual, and physical abuse of a patient.
• Oversees and/or directly investigates all patient-related sentinel events.
• Serves as the infection control contact for the agencies, is responsible for the direction, provision, and quality of infection control services, and effectively enforces infection control practices among agencies to include infection control and isolation protocols according to the CDC, OSHA, and LHC policy.
• Acts as Emergency Coordinator during emergencies ensuring appropriate plan execution.

License Requirements

• Must be a licensed physician; licensed registered nurse; licensed social worker; or a Bachelor's degree college graduate with at least three (3) years of documented success in discipline/field of study and a minimum of one (1) year of full time experience in a hospice, home health, or other health care delivery system setting.
• Three (3) years of health care leadership preferred.
• Current CPR certification required for Executive Directors who may provide services to patients in the field.
• Current Driver's License and vehicle insurance, and access to a dependable vehicle, or public transportation.