Medical Director Encompass Rehabilitation Hospital of Danville

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The Medical Director oversees the programmatic quality and integrity of the hospitals Internal Medicine services. He/she plays a pivotal role in optimizing the overall clinical care of the hospital while also providing clinical care to patients. The Medical Director will also work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to address the quality and regulatory requirements of the clinical team.

Partners with physiatry and other members of the multidisciplinary health care team to provide comprehensive care to the patients. He/she will advance the hospitals position as the inpatient rehabilitation hospital of choice and provide high level care resulting in excellent patient experience.

Establishes strong relationships with other specialists in the market area to make them aware of the benefits and the criteria for inpatient rehabilitation. Since a patients opportunity for inpatient rehabilitation is dependent upon referrals from other specialists and acute care providers the Medical Directors role in educating other clinicians and developing confidence in the hospitals services is critical to the hospitals success and patient access to appropriate services.

Develops a known and visible presence within the hospital with a reputation for being accessible and approachable among the staff patients and families. The Medical Director will balance clinical care with administrative opportunities to support the needs of the patients by providing onsite leadership regulatory oversight and operational guidance.

The duties will include providing initial and follow-up general medicine consultations for the rehabilitation of patients as requested by the staff. Consultation volume may vary but on average approximately 1-2 new consultations per day and then additional follow-up visits. Consultations should be performed within a 24-hour time period. Common requests include providing recommendations on managing the patients chronic medical conditions as well as any acute medical changes that are recognized by the patient or staff.

Encompass Health hospitals are extremely busy with high patient volumes Encompass Health has its own well-trained outreach teams that identify appropriate inpatient rehabilitation candidates from surrounding areas.

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This role is benefits eligible including the following incentives:

• Medical Director Stipend
• Physiatry Medicine support
• Monday-Friday work schedule

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OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients our members our students our Geisinger family and our communities.

• KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
• EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
• LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
• INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients our members our community and the nation.
• SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one including vision dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration cooperation and collegiality.

We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.