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Jason Kosmack
Human Resources
UPMC
International and Commercial Services Division (ICSD)
60122 USX Tower
600 Grant Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Phone: 412-864-4014
Fax: 412-647-3320
Clinical Administrator - Geriatric Services
For more than 60 years, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic has been a national leader in providing research-based care and treatment of mental health and addictive disorders. As part of UPMC, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic provides a comprehensive range of behavioral health services for individuals, including children, adolescents, adults, and seniors, who are at every stage in their recovery.
The UPMC Behavioral Health network includes the services provided at the flagship hospital, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, located in Oakland, Pennsylvania, as well as at four other UPMC hospitals and at more than 50 locations throughout western Pennsylvania.
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) of UPMC is committed to providing behavioral health care services to individuals across the life span. WPIC's continuum of care includes psychiatric services specifically to serve the geriatric population. We are seeking candidates for the position of Clinical Administrator to serve as a senior member of the service line leadership team. The WPIC Clinical Administrator of Geriatric Services is responsible for managing the clinical and administrative operations of the service line including clinical programming, strategic planning, staff management, fiscal and regulatory oversight, new business development, collaboration with research and all business practices within the department. This daylight position will be based in Oakland (Pittsburgh, PA) with frequent local travel to program sites and must have flexibility for possible weekend or evening availability as required.
Responsibilities
- Participates as an active member of the department management team in developing and monitoring goals for all programs within Geriatric Services.
- Participates in developing and monitoring budgets for all programs within Geriatric Services.
- Oversees Geriatric Services programs preparation for licensing and other regulatory reviews.
- Monitors program census and ambulatory program clinical activities to identify problems related to patient census, patient adherence to treatment and patent retention.
- Reviews census, utilization and other data as needed with Geriatric Services Chief and Medical Director, Geriatric Services program managers and WPIC administration.
- Participates in the recruiting, hiring and evaluation of management and supervisory staff for various Geriatric Services programs.
- Provides administrative and fiscal supervision to program managers and coordinators in Geriatric Services programs and services.
-Engages, motivates and provides leadership to employees to achieve organizational objectives.
Requirements
- Master's degree in a behavioral health field, required
- Doctoral degree, preferred
- Minimum of five years of clinical experience, required
- Minimum of four years of progressive leadership and administrative experience, required (preferably in an academic or clinical psychiatric setting) (clinical and leadership experience may overlap in time frame)
- Demonstrated leadership ability in a behavioral health care organization, including program development, supervision and/or administration, required
- Clear indications of successful communication skills and technical competency, required
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational and problem solving skills, required
- Knowledge of external regulatory requirements such as CMS, TJC, DOH, DPW, DAPL, ODP and OMHSAS, DHS, as applicable to services, required.
-Prior experience with geriatric population preferred.
PA Act 33/73 clearances must be submitted within 30 days post hire.
Geriatrics, clinical, psychiatric, behavioral health care.
To schedule a phone interview for this position, please contact Denise Trosky, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Human Resources Manager at graczykdl@upmc.edu . Be sure to include a resume in your email. You can also apply online by clicking here.
About Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic is a national leader in the treatment of mental health and addictive disorders. As part of UPMC, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic provides a comprehensive range of behavioral health services and is shaping tomorrow's behavioral health care through clinical innovation, research, education, and training.
Considered one of the nation's foremost academic-based psychiatric care facilities, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic is consistently ranked as one of the best psychiatric hospitals in America by U.S. News & World Report. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic houses the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and is dedicated to providing behavioral health professionals with state-of-the-art training and assistance.
To expand its mission, UPMC developed the UPMC Behavioral Health service line, which includes the inpatient and ambulatory behavioral health services of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, UPMC McKeesport, UPMC Mercy, and UPMC Northwest, along with the Consultation and Liaison Service that provides behavioral health consultation to many other UPMC hospitals. In addition, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic oversees the management of the behavioral health services at Beaver Medical Center and benefits from many collaborative arrangements with providers, schools, and nursing homes throughout the region.
By establishing and continually expanding the UPMC Behavioral Health network, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic extends the expertise and commitment of its premier services across the region and beyond.
About UPMC
UPMC is the premier health system in western Pennsylvania and is one of the most renowned academic medical centers in the United States.
During the past decade, UPMC has reshaped the health care landscape in western Pennsylvania. As a $9 billion organization and the region's largest employer, it has transformed the economic landscape as well.
During a period of rapid growth, UPMC created a genuinely integrated health care delivery system and aggressively recruited superb physicians and researchers to develop internationally renowned centers in transplantation, cancer, neurosurgery, psychiatry, rehabilitation, geriatrics, and women's health, among others.
UPMC also has invested significantly in information technology to link and integrate electronic medical records across multiple hospitals and care settings and has invested research monies to seed new fields such as regenerative medicine and biosecurity.
Today, with almost 54,000 employees, UPMC comprises 20 hospitals, and a network of other care sites across western Pennsylvania and throughout the world: doctors' offices, cancer centers, outpatient treatment centers, specialized imaging and surgery facilities, in-home care, rehabilitation sites, behavioral health care, and nursing homes.
UPMC also has leveraged its world-renowned clinical services and patient care reputation into one of the country's fastest growing health insurance plans.
A passion for innovation lies at the heart of UPMC's success. Through such innovation, UPMC has launched a portfolio of new businesses in information technology, biosecurity, and biomedicine—all nurtured from its core service lines.
UPMC is an academic medical center affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh. The medical center and university are independent
nonprofit entities with different charters and unique missions; however, there is an extraordinary degree of synergy derived from our decades-long relationship in education, research, and clinical services.
Our Hospitals and Services
With 20 tertiary, specialty, and community hospitals, more than 400 outpatient sites and doctors' offices, retirement and long-term care facilities, an award-winning insurance plan, and commercial and international ventures, UPMC is redefining traditional models of health care.
Our flagship hospitals, UPMC Presbyterian and UPMC Shadyside, provide advanced care for all human illnesses, as well as clinical trials of the latest treatments. UPMC Cancer Centers, one of the largest integrated community networks of cancer physicians and health care specialists in the country, provides the highest level of cancer care for patients in their communities. Hillman Cancer Center is our state-of-the-art facility at UPMC Shadyside.
The Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, named for the modern-day father of organ transplantation at UPMC, performs more organ transplants than any other center in the world. Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, a National Center of Excellence in Women's Health, ranks among the top 12 hospitals in the nation for gynecologic care.
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC ranks in the top 10 for pediatric care. The new campus of Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh is one of the first environmentally sustainable pediatric hospitals in the United States. The UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, part of the UPMC Sports Performance Complex on the South Side, is one of the world's leading research and clinical facilities for sports medicine and the official sports medicine provider for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pitt Panthers, and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
UPMC Mercy offers a broad range of services, providing compassionate care in the Catholic tradition.
Commitment to Quality and Innovation
At the core of UPMC's mission and purpose is continual improvement of clinical quality and patient safety. To help provide patients and staff with higher levels of quality, UPMC launched the Donald D. Wolff Jr. Center for Quality Improvement and Innovation at UPMC applies scientific principles and formal research to develop and improve safety measures.
The UPMC model has delivered outstanding results—an 83 percent reduction in central line infection rates over five years, improved systems to identify and isolate methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and improvements in all core measure processes.
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