Description
Medical Director of Inpatient Behavioral Health (BH) services is a physician leader for the hospital, inpatient and consult liaison (CL) services. They work in partnership with their operational, dyad partners, the Operational Director of Inpatient BH and manager of Psychiatric Assessment Team (PAT), to ensure quality care and safety of inpatient BH and CL clinical services. As the clinical lead, they are expected to work with all hospital departments in support of inpatient BH and CL clinical quality, which includes Patient Safety and Risk Management, Quality Improvement, Compliance, Quality Management (regulation and accreditation) and other relevant departments. The Medical Director of Inpatient BH will provide other system-based support for inpatient clinical care by working with St Charles Health System (SCHS) EHR support, pharmacy and data services as patient care and the health system requires. Administrative duties would include supporting Operational Director of inpatient BH and PAT in his/her primary roles, including the provision of administrative duties; capital planning and allocation; revenue management; operating expense management; hospital staffing; operations performance reporting; and management of supply chain and support systems services. This position reports primarily to the BH leadership dyad of Clinical Division Director and Senior Director of Operations for BH as well CMO of Bend and Hospital systems.
DEPARTMENTAL SUMMARY: Inpatient Behavioral Health provides care for patients with mental health disorders. The department includes two accredited psychiatric units, located in Bend. One unit, Sage View, is a separate 15 bed unit located adjacent to the hospital and the other unit, Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES), is a five (5) bed unit off the emergency department. Inpatient Behavioral Health also provides consult services to the Bend Hospital campus as well as phone consult services to the St. Charles System hospital campuses. The PAT services is consult liaison service providing consultation throughout the St Charles system. This is a mostly masters level clinician staffed service, though we are adding prescriber FTE's to the service, which will also perform part time ECT.
Work schedule: The Inpatient Psychiatry service runs a four (4) physician model, providing daytime onsite coverage and night call coverage. The Medical Director position will work M-F splitting time between direct patient care/consults and administrative duties. There will be an additional 3 FTE of psychiatry who will work 1 week on and 2 week off schedule, so that M-F there will be 2 physician coverage with single physician coverage on weekends.
Call expectation: There is no formal clinical call, however, the Medical Director for Inpatient BH services is expected to be available for urgent matters when needed, including after hours. The Medical Director will serve as primary emergency back up for any of the 3 full FTE psychiatrists should a call out occur and arrangements not be made among those 3 providers to cover the missing FTE.
Work location: St. Charles Bend
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES:
Clinical Responsibilities:
Diagnose and treat disorders within Psychiatrist's chosen specialty:
Manage acute and chronic psychiatric conditions.
Participate patient education and promote patient wellness.
Analyze reports and findings.
Utilize and coordinate both on-site and referral based ancillary services when appropriate.
Order or execute various tests, analyses, and diagnostic images to provide information on patient's condition.
Order, prescribe, and/or recommend drugs and biologicals or other forms of treatment such as ECT, physical therapy, sleep study, or related therapeutic procedures.
Develop and maintain inpatient adult psychiatry service for SCHS.
Practice and role model excellence in the Psychiatry domains of diagnosis, aligning treatment goals to patient values, definitive treatment, supportive care treatment, follow-up care, promote good health and prevent illness.
Educates, counsels, and assists patients and families regarding current health problems, health maintenance activities and preventive behaviors.
Documents reassessment and response to treatment to determine effectiveness of plan of care.
Practice of medicine within the scope of license, training and credentialing. Cooperate with other SCHS physicians and caregivers to insure optimal patient care.
EDUCATION
Required:
Graduation from an accredited medical school.
Successful completion of an accredited residency program in Physician's chosen specialty (ies).
Successful completion of additional educational programs necessary to enable Physician to acquire and maintain privileges to perform the range of services contemplated. This includes board eligibility/certification in the specialty being practiced.
Complete annual fire/safety, etc. education in-services as required.
Attend mandatory educational offerings as described in SCHS policies/procedures and/or as required by other regulatory bodies.
Complete annual CME as required to maintain license and appropriate Board certification.
Complete in a timely manner assigned Computer Based Learning modules.
LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION/REGISTRATION
Required:
Oregon license as MD/DO
Board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Valid driver's license and the ability to meet SCHS driving requirements.
Maintain unrestricted DEA number.
Maintain unrestricted ability to participate in Medicare / Medicaid, or other federal or state governmental health care programs.
EXPERIENCE
Required:
Experience in hospital and outpatient practice environments in Psychiatry
Advanced written and verbal communication skills to effectively interact with a diverse population and professionally represent St. Charles Health System
Experience working in a team environment and proven ability to collaborate, manage facilitation and consensus building among health care professionals and agencies to achieve expected results
Preferred:
Two or more years of inpatient adult psychiatry service
Epic EMR software experience
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