Rehab Therapy Manager - Otsego
About The Position
Mary Free Bed is a not-for-profit, nationally accredited rehabilitation hospital serving thousands of children and adults each year through inpatient, outpatient, sub-acute rehabilitation, orthotics and prosthetics and home and community programs. With the most comprehensive rehabilitation services in Michigan and an exclusive focus on rehabilitation, Mary Free Bed physicians, nurses and therapists help our patients achieve outstanding clinical outcomes. The growing Mary Free Bed Network provides patients throughout the state with access to our unique standard of care. The Rehab Therapy Manager provides leadership and oversight of daily operations for the Munson therapy department at Mary Free Bed (MFB). This role ensures the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered, interdisciplinary care that is both clinically effective and financially responsible through staff leadership, education, and clinical supervision.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Recreational Therapy, or Speech Language Pathology program. Will also consider PTA, COTA program graduates.
- Licensed (or eligible for licensure) in Michigan.
- Minimum 4 years work experience in a relevant clinical rehabilitation setting.
- Possesses and demonstrates expertise in a specific diagnostic area of rehabilitation.
- Possesses and maintains CPR certification to meet department/program protocol.
- The physical ability to lift, position, and transport patients with physical impairments.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with government reimbursement systems and other regulatory bodies related to service line.
- Demonstrates competence in relevant software and hardware required to meet job responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Establishes treatment objectives, develops written treatment plans, and administers therapy accordingly.
- Assesses patient status and treatment outcomes; revise care plans as needed.
- Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to optimize patient-centered care.
- Updates patient care plans in real time to ensure safety and effectiveness of treatment.
- Participates in discharge planning, considering patient needs, family involvement, community resources, and environmental factors.
- Provides patient and caregiver education to support discharge and post-discharge care plans.
- Provides staff education and training through in-services.
- Participates in program development and research initiatives as appropriate.
- Serves as a clinical resource in areas of expertise.
- Supervise, teach, and evaluate student performance.
- Communicate with academic institutions regarding student progress and competency.
- Provides oversight of therapy staff, including physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, and rehabilitation technicians.
- Leads recruitment, selection, onboarding, and training of staff.
- Provides ongoing mentoring, professional development, continuing education opportunities, and performance evaluations.
- Ensures that staff competency is assessed, demonstrated, and maintained in accordance with regulatory and accreditation requirements, and aligned with established standards of care and best practices.
- Identifies risks to employee safety and implements appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Maintains a safe, professional, and high-quality work environment consistent with Mary Free Bed standards.
- Oversees the therapy program to improve quality metrics and outcomes.
- Analyzes quality measures and reimbursement data to identify opportunities for clinical and financial improvement.
- Develops and implements process improvement initiatives to sustain high performance.
- Oversees and completes the month-end therapy billing processes.
- Serves as administrator and primary point of contact for the therapy electronic medical record (EMR) system.
- Reviews and supports therapy documentation for insurance appeals and denials.
- Demonstrate excellent customer service and standards of behaviors as well as encourages, coaches, and monitors the same in team members.
- This individual should consistently promote teamwork and direct communication with co-workers and deal discretely and sensitively with confidential information.
- Contribute by identifying problems and seeking solutions.
- Promote patient/family satisfaction where possible; participates in departmental efforts to monitor and report customer service.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
Associate degree
