Job Description
Jackson Memorial Long-Term Care Center Department: Jackson Memorial Long Term care center HRHC Administration Address: 2500 N.W. 22nd Avenue - Miami, FL 33142 Shift Details: Full-Time, Days Why Jackson Memorial Long-Term Care Center: Jackson Memorial Long-Term Care Center is a non-profit, 180-bed skilled nursing facility licensed by the state of Florida. JMLTCC is one of two skilled nursing facilities owned and operated by Miami-Dade County, Public Health Trust and Jackson Health System to assist Jackson Memorial Hospital with the timely discharge of patients who cannot be easily discharged from the hospital to home or other community nursing homes.Miami, FL Full-Time Summary The Director of Risk Management provides leadership in planning and implementing services at Jackson Health System, including overseeing risk management and safety programs to ensure a safe environment for patients, personnel, and visitors, while complying with regulatory requirements. The incumbent manages incident-reporting systems, claims and litigation processes, and collaborates with various institutional committees to analyze data and recommend strategies for risk prevention and improvement. Responsibilities Provides the leadership framework for planning, directing, coordinating and improving services by the division that are responsive to the needs of the Jackson Health System. Provides leadership support in the communication and integration of the JHS Mission and Vision Statement. Designs, develops, manages, and implements with the assistance of institutional medical, nursing, clinical, support, and administrative staff Risk Management and Safety Management Program that has as a goal the control, prevention, reduction and minimization of hazards and manages staff activities to reduce the risk of human injury to assure a safe environment for patients, personnel and visitors. Provides oversight, maintains and operates the institutional Incident Reporting System in accordance to institutional policies and State of Florida regulatory requirements. Assists in the oversight, through the Department's Claims and Litigation Unit administrative staff, ensuring that any claims and litigation matters presented to the institution are appropriately timely assigned, investigated and handled in accordance with the Department's process mechanisms, standard tort and administrative claims investigation techniques/guidelines, and prevailing laws of the State of Florida. Provides and manages the Risk Management Information System in an effort to generate various standard and ad hoc management reports of incident report activity involving patients, employees and the general public as well as the claims and litigation activity reports as required under the provisions of the Joint Risk Management Program. Provides and presents the reports, as needed and required, to different institutional committees, including but not limited to those charged with Quality Management, Performance Improvement functions and the governing board of JHS, the University of Miami School of Medicine Practice Management and affiliated hospitals and health care facilities. Provides analysis of the reported data and develops recommendations aimed at preventing, controlling, reducing and minimizing incidents involving patients, the public and staff. Provides oversight and manages, through administrative staff, the Environment of Care/Environmental health and Safety Programs for JHS and its affiliates. Ensures that the Risk Management and Environment of Care/Environmental Health and Safety for JHS and its affiliates are in compliance with Florida State Licensure, Joint Commission for Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAHO), the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), and other applicable and prevailing state, local and federal regulations. Ensures that the administrative Departmental staff are appropriately licensed and credentialed to perform their tasks. In collaboration with medical, nursing, clinical, support, and administrative leadership, provides oversight and actively recommends and assists with development and implementation of programs for control, reduction, prevention and minimization of risk exposure for patients, the general public and staff. Actively participates in the JHS Performance Improvement Program. I nitiates, continuously assesses and promotes improvement in Risk Management and Environment of Care Programs. Plans, coordinates and provides Risk Management in-service education to medical, nursing, ancillary clinical and administrative staff under the auspices of the Joint Risk Management Program, including new employee, annual and service/unit specifi