Dialysis Corporate Nurse Consultant

Overview

Founded in 1971, Dialysis Clinic, Inc. (DCI) remains the nation’s largest non-profit dialysis provider. With a team of approximately 5,000 talented and caring employees serving across the United States, DCI provides care to nearly 15,000 patients on dialysis and 3,500 patients with chronic kidney disease.

We offer a variety of services including in-center hemodialysis, home hemodialysis, and peritoneal dialysis (PD). Each position within DCI, from billers to administrators to nursing staff, contributes toward the goal of providing excellent patient care.

Our staff has helped DCI achieve the lowest mortality and hospitalization rates among large dialysis providers for the past 13 years in a row.

The Corporate Nurse Consultant provides education and training to promote quality patient care, assist facilities with improving outcomes and observes operations for areas of improvement.

Schedule : M-F, relocation to Nashville is not required, however, up to 50% travel should be expected.

Benefits :

• Comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits
• Life and long-term care insurance provided at no additional expense to employee
• Paid time off (PTO) including holidays
• Extended Sick Bank (ESB) in addition to PTO paid time for doctor appointments, sickness or medical leave
• Retirement plans with $.50 of each contributed dollar matched for eligible employees, up to 8 percent
• Education reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Wellness program
• Among others

Responsibilities

Quality of Care :

• Facilitates the improvement of clinical and financial outcomes in assigned clinics by helping to develop quality improvement plans based on regulations and policies.
• Identifies alternative options / problem solving to improve outcomes.
• Reviews monthly clinic report cards to assist clinic in the improvement of outcomes that fall below corporate goals.
• Monitors progression of corporate plan of corrections by engaging with local Governing Body to facilitate improvement.

Training / Education :

• Provides education to clinics for individual or group presentations
• Serves as mentor to clinic managers with particular emphasis on new managers

Communications :

• Facilitates communication between managers of clinics and the corporate office
• Communicates with clinic managers on a regular basis at all assigned facilities.
• Communicates well with clinics using email and conference calls and / or one on one meetings.

Problem Solving :

• Facilitates gathering of information and formulating plan for problem solving related to clinical / financial operations in the clinic.
• Facilitates unbiased assessment of all angles of problem before formulating solution.

Regulatory :

• Assist with enforcement of a core group of corporate mandated policy and procedures by educating the clinic on possible deficiencies.
• Serves as a resource to clinic on interpretation of Medicare and state regulations as well as other agencies.
9 days ago