Hospice and Behavioral Health

Challenge

This Client has a Hospice Agency in Philadelphia with 150 patients and needed a Director of Clinical Services who was a leader (mentor & delegator) to replace someone who lacked the ability to grow the agency.

Candidate Placed

Director of Hospice Clinical Operations: This candidate is an RN/MSN and close to completing their MBA with over 13 years of hospice and palliative care nursing, 9 years in a leadership role.

  • Instrumental in the development of a robust palliative care program, seated within the homecare division that feeds into the hospice program.
  • Responsible for education of home care staff and referral sources on benefits of early discussion and introduction of palliative services.
  • Committed to high quality care that complies with Medicare and Accrediting body standards.

Executive Director – Hospice

Challenge

This Client has a Hospice Agency located in Cleveland that had grown to 50 patients and the Executive Director, who was also part owner, wanted to hire an ED who could continue the growth so he could pursue growing his business in other locations.

Candidate Placed

Executive Director: This candidate has a BS Degree with 10 years working in the Hospice Industry with 4 years working in Hospice Operations.

  • Since current agency Hospice acquisition by a large Hospice Chain in June of 2020, they opened up their second office; plan for two more this year.
  • Since their oversight SHP scores exceeded state and national averages.
  • Currently in a Joint Commission accredited agency. Oversight of Home Health and Hospice with a PD census of over 160; Hospice over 50 and HH 60.

Nurse Practitioner – Hospice

Challenge

This Client has one of the largest Hospice Agencies in New Jersey and wanted to hire a Nurse Practitioners to start a Palliative Care Program.

Candidate Placed

Nurse Practitioner: This candidate has an MSN, RN, APN-C Adult/Geriatric with experience in Medical Management of Internal Medicine patients in office, hospitals, subacute rehabs and long term care facilities.

  • Primary care and medical management of office patients.
  • Interventions based on examination, age appropriate health maintenance screening, nutritional and psychosocial assessments.
  • Appropriate ordering and interpretation of diagnostic testing.
  • Multidisciplinary collaboration and referrals.

Program Director – Behavioral Health

Challenge

This Client has an out-patient Addiction/Mental Health Clinic located in South Jersey and needed a Program Director who met all the credentialing requirements and who had a proven track record for growing a clinic.

Candidate Placed

Area Director: This candidate has a Ph.D. in Psychology and am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor with 6 years of supervisory experience.

  • Currently providing oversight of 13 residential facilities, licensed by the Department of Human Service and CARF accredited and 1 day program including 18 direct reports and over 350 indirect reports for a 7.5 million dollar, for profit company.
  • Oversees all Therapy and increased utilization to no less than 20% in each therapy.
  • Was the only Program Director to continuously analyze financials to resolve variances, so that my program was exceeding budget and maintaining retention.
  • Implemented processes with case managers and AR department to acquire over six figures worth of outstanding authorizations for payment.

Program Director – Behavioral Health

Challenge

This Client has an Out-Patient Addiction/Mental Health Clinic in South Central Jersey with 60 Mental Health Patients and 0 Addiction patients and needed a Program Director who met all the credentialing requirements and had a proven track record for growing Addiction side of the business.

Candidate Placed

Program Director: MS in Rehabilitation and Clinical Mental Health Counseling with BA in Psychology, LCADC, CCS. This 20-year professional has 10 years clinical experience, areas of expertise include; administration, leadership, substance use and mental health counseling, with a strong emphasis on medication assisted treatment and integrated care. Supervised up to 10 clinicians for over 6 years in substance abuse clinical settings.

  • Assisted in the developing agency recognition program to increase agency morale
  • Developed team-building curriculum to demonstrate the use of PERMA and Authentic Happiness self-assessment models
  • Developed quality indicator treatment planning tool
  • Elected as agency leader in “train the trainer” incentive to train all counselors to use motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy provided by New Jersey Evidenced Base Practice Initiative Training