Physical Therapist

HomeCentris Healthcare•Owings Mills, MD

3d•$0 - $85•Onsite

About The Position

The Physical Therapist performs accurate and comprehensive assessments, obtains physician orders for certification and re-certification of home physical therapy services, and ensures timely communication of changes in patients’ clinical status to healthcare team members and agency staff. The role involves coordinating care planning and delivery with physicians, patients, families, and other healthcare professionals to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The Physical Therapist educates patients, families, and staff on appropriate physical therapy modalities and pain management techniques. They deliver, modify, and discontinue physical therapy modalities based on ongoing patient assessment and physician orders, and assess patients for durable medical equipment and adaptive needs. The position also includes developing home exercise programs, synthesizing data for clinical judgments, assessing and managing patient pain, and ensuring patient safety by identifying and mitigating environmental risks. Additionally, the role involves supporting cultural practices, performing transfer and discharge planning, participating in the organization’s information management program, and complying with agency policies. The use of the PowerPath EMR system, which utilizes AI for admissions, OASIS assessments, care plans, and progress notes, is integral to this role, aiming to reduce administrative workload and documentation time while ensuring regulatory compliance and real-time patient progress monitoring.

Requirements

Certified Physical Therapist
Ability to Relocate: Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Work Location: In person

Nice To Haves

PowerPath EMR system experience

Responsibilities

Performs accurate and comprehensive assessments.
Obtains physician orders for certification and re-certification of home physical therapy services.
Ensures that changes in patients’ clinical status are communicated to other healthcare team members and agency office staff verbally and in writing in a timely manner.
Ensures that physician orders are communicated to other healthcare team members and agency staff in a timely, accurate, and thorough manner.
Coordinates care planning and delivery with the physician, patient and family/caregivers, other healthcare team members and agency staff to facilitate optimal patient outcomes.
Educates patients, their families/caregivers and other staff as appropriate, in appropriate physical therapy modalities.
Delivers physical therapy modalities appropriate to the patient’s clinical status and needs, and in accordance with the standard of care for patient’s age.
Provides, modifies or discontinues physical therapy modalities based upon an ongoing assessment/reassessment of the patient’s clinical status and in accordance with physician orders.
Assesses the patient for the need for durable medical equipment as well as other adaptive equipment needs.
Develops appropriate home exercise programs tailored to the patient’s clinical status, needs and age.
Synthesizes data from the physical examination and analyzes data to make clinical judgments regarding patient management.
Able to appropriately assess and reassess a patient’s pain.
Utilizes appropriate pain management modalities that include, but are not limited to, physical therapy modalities.
Educates the patient and/or caregiver in effective pain management modalities.
Provides physical therapy modalities in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
Identifies risk of injuries or threats to life and health in the patient’s environment, i.e., environmental/safety/mobility risks and implements appropriate interventions to reduce those risks.
Addresses and supports cultural practices providing such practices do not harm the patient or others, and do not interfere with the planned course of physical therapy.
Performs transfer and discharge planning functions in accordance with agency policy and applicable laws, regulations and standards.
Participates in the organization’s information management program.
Complies with the agency’s policies.