Medical Director

Acacia Network, the leading Latino integrated care nonprofit in the nation, offers the community, from children to seniors, a pathway to behavioral and primary healthcare, housing, and empowerment. We are visionary leaders transforming the triple aim of high quality, great experience at a lower cost. Acacia champions a collaborative environment to deliver vital health, housing and community building services, work we have been doing since 1969. By hiring talented individuals like you, we’ve been able to expand quickly, with offices in Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse, Orlando, Tennessee, Maryland and Puerto Rico.

POSITION OVERVIEW :

The Medical Director engages in the professional, organizational, and administrative activities to provide quality care to clients based upon their medical and psycho-social needs. The Medical Director develops, implements, and evaluates the medical practice delivery model in accordance with specific goals. The responsibilities of the Medical Director are to be performed on a full-time basis and are designed to provide medical leadership, services, direction, and coordination in the provision of medical care and physician services. The Medical Director is the liaison between administration and the medical staff and assumes responsibility for all applicable Federal, State, and City regulations for the department. THIS POSITION IS LOCATED IN ALBANY, NY

This position pays : $116.58 per hour

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS :

• Participating in planning, development, and organization of medical services provided.
• Meets with all scheduled patients efficiently and reviews scheduling with supervisor daily.
• Develops and reviews all medical policies related to patient care.
• Conduct physical examinations of patients upon their admission and thereafter on an annual, regular and on an “as-needed-basis.”
• Review the completion and appropriateness of all intake documentation, including patient health history (i.e., other medications and allergies), drug abuse history, and previous treatment failures.
• Review and approve initial needs assessment and patient initial treatment plans and reviews.
• Participates in preparation for regulatory agency site visits.
• Anytime the program is open, and a physician is not present, a physician must be available for consultation and to attend to any emergency situation.
• Perform additional relevant duties as requested by supervisors / management.
• Knowledge of Federal, State, and City regulatory requirements and ensures all aspects of clinical care conform to these requirements.
• Order, evaluate, adjust, and terminate prescription of medication dosages using sound medical, ethical, and responsible discretion and meet with the patient to discuss any adjustments in medication dosage.
• Reviews all accident / incidents related to patient care and provides input into actions necessary to resolve identified problems. Implements corrective actions as necessary and appropriate.
• Ensures physical participation in the Interdisciplinary Care Planning process.
• Prescription and provision of treatment in accordance with patient’s medical and mental condition and only upon their individual needs.
• Determine physiological opiate dependency upon admission and patient eligibility for admission to the program.
• Determine patient qualification and fitness for OTP replacement therapy and / or alternate medication-assisted therapy services needed. Establish buprenorphine service.
• Participate in a weekly and on an “as-needed-basis” case conferencing sessions with MDT members to discuss preventative treatment measures to adverse changes as well as progress in the patient’s medical condition.

Medical services provided by the program :

Assures medical staff compliance with all regulatory and licensure guidelines :

REQUIREMENTS :

THIS POSITION IS LOCATED IN ALBANY, NY

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