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Job Title:  DON, Home Health Director of Nursing, Home Health Care RN Management
Job Ref No:  DON/Fayette,AL
Job Role:  Registered Nurse
Management Operations
Job Type:  Permanent
Location:  Alabama
City:  Fayette
Post Code:  35555
Job Description: 

If you are an organized, analytical and flexible Home Health Director of Nursing with a passion for quality healthcare and a desire for career satisfaction, join LHC Group today! LHC Group helps patients of all ages make the transition to post-acute care at home in communities across the country. We combine a high quality hometown medical staff with a dynamic, clinically driven operational model and an efficient management team to offer a comprehensive health care package that puts the patient’s needs first. While we are a growing healthcare provider, we function more like a supportive family to our employees. Our goal is to provide our employees with the environment, tools and encouragement to achieve their professional and personal goals.

As a Home Health Director of Nursing with LHC Group, you will plan, organize, initiate, implement and evaluate the patient care delivery system and meet specific physician orders for patients. You will ensure patients are appropriate and continue to be appropriate for home health care. You will orient, educate, supervise, coordinate and evaluate patient care staff about patient care and efficiency, and serve as a liaison between staff and management. You will also monitor all the financial, operational and patient data needed to keep your branch operating at peak efficiency, such as staffing levels, patient supply needs and insurance claim/reimbursement processes.


Home Health Director of Nursing - Home Health Care RN Management


Job Responsibilities

 

As a Home Health Director of Nursing with LHC Group, you take ultimate responsibility for your home health agency. You will supervise the maintenance of accurate patient care records and accurately coordinate admissions. You are responsible for you branch’s adherence to all practice standards as they apply to patient care and for responding to patient needs and complaints. You will also participate in the Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement plan processes and monitor the agency’s adherence to state and federal regulations and joint commission accreditations.

 

Additional responsibilities of the Home Health Director of Nursing also include:

  • Managing RN Team Leaders and your agency’s Branch Manager as needed
  • Increasing or decreasing staffing levels as needed
  • Reviewing pre-billing for accuracy, performing other billing duties
  • Organizing and reviewing budget/financial data
  • Meeting with therapists to discuss patient cases
  • Conducting meetings and reviewing patient care reports with Medical Directors and physicians
  • Meeting once a week with State Operations Director to touch base on overall home health agency data
  • Holding weekly staff conferences to go over work performance and specific patient cases

 


Home Health Director of Nursing - Home Health Care RN Management


Job Requirements

 

As a Home Health Director of Nursing with LHC Group, you must understand the financial and operational data of your home health agency. You must have excellent communication and multitasking skills, be able to advocate for both patients and employees and have the skills to balance the interests of the company and the people we serve. You must be an independent decision maker and be able to manage people in a motivational and constructive way, as well solve financial and quality control related problems. Also, you must have an excellent work ethic, good people management skills and the ability to perform well in stressful situations. Additional requirements include:

  • Current RN license in state of employment
  • Associate’s degree in Nursing, Bachelor’s degree preferred
  • Combined 3 years experience providing home health nursing care and working in a home health agency office
  • Current driver’s license and vehicle insurance, ability to travel as needed
  • Being dedicated to customer service
  • Having computer literacy and proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, ExCel
  • Being comfortable reviewing and working with financial data
  • Joint commission, state and federal regulation knowledge highly preferred
  • Additional background in accounting, business, healthcare management and/or finance preferred
  • Leadership experience required
  • Home Health experience required 

Home Health Director of Nursing - Home Health Care RN Management


Benefits

At LHC Group, we offer an opportunity to be part of something that’s more than just a job. We are always growing and there are many opportunities for advancement to directorial and executive roles around the country. We know that our employees work hard, so we offer an excellent and competitive salary and benefits package as well as opportunities to share in our company’s financial growth and success. Furthermore, we make sure that you have the tools and technology you need to be able to do your job well, give quality care and seize the opportunities we offer.

As a financially stable, well-established company we have an informal work culture and an open-door policy; CEO Keith Myers encourages staff at all levels to reach out to him with concerns, questions or comments.

Benefits include:

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Cancer/Critical Illness insurance
  • Life insurance
  • 401(K) retirement plan with company match
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Paid time-off
  • Holiday pay
  • Voluntary term life insurance
  • Supplemental Term Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance
  • Short and long-term disability insurance
  • Disability gap insurance
  • Accident insurance
  • MedSupport insurance
  • Employee Assistance Plan
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Percentage bonus based on home health agency, division and company performance
  • Bereavement Pay
  • Continuing Education Units through Online Management System
  • Flexible scheduling options and rewarding work

 

LHC Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information, please visit our website. We look forward to hearing from you!

Employer:  LHC Group.
09/27/2011

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