Patient Navigator - Emergency Medicine (29997)

Physician Affiliate Group of New York•New York, NY

24d•$70,000 - $70,000•Onsite

About The Position

Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) is adding Patient Navigator - Emergency Medicine to the group at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and North Central Bronx. Jacobi Medical Center is a 457-bed, Level I Trauma Center and North Central Bronx Hospital (NCB) has 213 licensed beds. To this day, Jacobi and NCB remain respected leaders in emergency medicine, trauma surgery, burn care, pediatrics, primary care, and women’s health. The hospital maintains a strong academic affiliation with Albert Einstein College of Medicine to maintain its high healthcare delivery standards. The mission of NYC Health + Hospitals is to extend equally to all New Yorkers, regardless of the ability to pay, comprehensive health services of the highest quality in an atmosphere of humane care, dignity, and respect. Their Values are built on a foundation of social and racial equity and has established the ICARE standards for all staff. NYC Health + Hospitals is the nation’s largest municipal health care delivery system in the United States. Dedicated to providing the highest quality health care services to all New Yorkers with compassion, dignity and respect, and regardless of immigration status or ability to pay. This position encompasses work of varying degrees ofמתח of difficulty in a multi-faceted, CDC-funded program that aims to reduce HIV and other communicable diseases. Ranging from basic case management to planning, organizing, and conducting of disease control efforts in these areas, and requires data analysis to support programmatic quality improvement efforts under the direction of physician supervision.

Requirements

Basic case management
Planning, organizing, and conducting of disease control efforts
Data analysis to support programmatic quality improvement efforts
Perform and document rapid, point-of-care HIV testing
Provide appropriate pre- and post-counseling and education
Linking newly diagnosed HIV+ to care
Linking eligible patients to appropriate clinical outpatient care
Provide counseling and PrEP/PEP education
Documentation in the EMR of patient interactions and communications
Participation in focus groups and individual interviewing of patients
Attend job related education training, seminars, and conferences

Responsibilities

Identification of candidates for routine HIV testing in adult Emergency Department.
Interact with clients to perform and document rapid, point-of-care HIV testing in accordance with hospital, local, and state requirements and guidelines.
Provide clients receiving rapid, point-of-care tests, and give appropriate pre- and post-counseling and education.
Responsible for linking newly diagnosed HIV+ to care in the Jacobi or North Central Bronx HIV clinics for immediate antiviral treatment.
Responsible for linking eligible patients to the appropriate clinical outpatient care. This includes clients with newly diagnosed HIV+, out of care HIV+, sexually transmitted diseases, and clients interested in PrEP and/or for follow-up care for PEP that has been initiated.
Provide counseling and PrEP/PEP education for HIV- clients.
Responsible for documentation in the EMR of patient interactions and communications per program protocols.
Participation in focus groups and individual interviewing of patients for program enhancement.
Attend job related education training, seminars, and conferences as determined by the program manager.