Palliative Care Program Liaison (RN)

MJHS; Village of Freeport (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

MJHS Institute and Hospice and Palliative Care seeks a professional to lead programmatic implementation of projects aimed at promoting goal setting, advance care planning, and hospice eligibility review and enrollment for medically ill patients. You will collaborate with senior management and clinical teams, identify eligible patients, and support telehealth initiatives.

The role involves education for site professionals, coordination of referrals, and ensuring timely hospice admissions in

Responsibilities

• Responsible for programmatic implementation of projects intended to promote goal setting, advance care planning and hospice eligibility review and enrollment in populations with advanced illness.
• Effectively collaborates with senior management to ensure that project implementation proceeds in alignment with goals and objectives.
• Implements protocols to identify patients appropriate for project.
• Communicates with physicians and other members of treatment team and collaborates with them in the implementation of the project.
• When patient is identified, determines eligibility for the project.
• Communicates with patients and families, and facilitates or engages in goal setting discussions, including advance care planning.
• Performs hospice eligibility review, including discussions as appropriate with the patient's physician and the hospice physician.
• When appropriate, engages in discussions with patients and families about hospice eligibility and enrollment.
• Assists with obtaining the Election of Benefits and in the completion of hospice admissions.
• Ensures timely and accurate implementation of procedures for distribution, tracking, return, turnover, and quality control of telehealth devices.
• Creates and implements patient/family educational materials to support the use of telehealth.
• Tracks and supports programmatic efforts to ensure that patients and families are appropriately identified and evaluated for telehealth, and that device triaging is appropriately performed.
• Assists and problem-solves so that timely and accurate implementation of specific telehealthenabled interventions occur, as determined by clinical need and directed by senior management.
• Gathers all information required by the agency to initiate a hospice referral.

Job description

MJHS Institute and Hospice and Palliative Care seeks a professional to lead programmatic implementation of projects aimed at promoting goal setting, advance care planning, and hospice eligibility review and enrollment for medically ill patients. You will collaborate with senior management and clinical teams, identify eligible patients, and support telehealth initiatives.

The role involves education for site professionals, coordination of referrals, and ensuring timely hospice admissions in