We have the great privilege of helping patients and families re-build their lives. It's extraordinarily meaningful work and the reason we greet the day with optimism and anticipation. When patients "Ask for Mary," they experience a culture that has been sculpted for more than a century. Our hallmark is to carefully listen to patients and innovatively serve them. This is true of every employee, from support staff and leadership, to clinicians and care providers.
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. Mary Free Bed stands apart from other organizations by the unique combination of:
Mission Statement
Restoring hope and freedom through rehabilitation.
Summary
Healthcare professional responsible for identifying new amputees immediately after or prior to amputation, providing some post-op care, meeting with all amputees that come to MFB inpatient rehab, counseling amputees regarding the process of being fit with a prosthetic device and maintaining contact with these amputees, all with the objective of promoting the benefits of, and increasing participation in, the amputee clinic at MFB.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
- Assessment of patients with impairment of human movement or musculoskeletal abnormalities that would impede their ability to participate in their social environment or other activities in order to determine a functional intervention.
- Formulation of a treatment plan, with other health care providers as prescribed by the referring physician based upon a comprehensive assessment to design an intervention to alleviate limitations and enhance function.
- Compliance with practice management plans to develop and document policies and procedures to ensure patient protection which includes, but is not limited to:
- adherence to applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations
- maintaining a safe and professional environment for patient care
- comprehension of claims development and submission
- Identify new amputees on the floor at subacute hospitals immediately after or prior to amputation. Encourage amputee clinic participation at MFB
- Meet with every amputee that comes to MFB inpatient rehab. Encourage amputee clinic participation at MFB.
- Develop relationship with Social workers discharge planning, RN liaison with vascular and orthopedic offices
- Develop relationships with MFB nurse Liaisons and PMR physicians that practice at various hospital locations
- Counsel patient as to the process of being fit with a prosthesis, promote amputee clinic benefits.
- Provide compression and post op care including but not limited to dressing changes, shrinkers, rigid dressings (flow Techs) to patients on floor of hospital.
- Arrange mentor meetings pre/post op for patients that are interested coordinating with MFB Social worker.
- Assist MFB O&P Director of Clinical Operations in amputee clinic at Mary Free Bed.
- Provide some evaluation documentation including K level justification, immediately following surgery or before depending on case.
- Provide follow up and tracking of patients that do not come to MFB for post-op rehab. Like those discharged to SNF or Home. Encourage amputee clinic participation at MFB
- Work with Director of Clinical Operations to introduce clinician that will provide fabrication care of the individuals prep prosthesis.
- Manage relationship with PT or case manager at SNF or Home Care agency to track healing and readiness for fabrication.
- Obtain dispensing RX and clinical notes justification prior to patient being casted for prosthesis.
- Maintain mandatory education requirements. Relative to individual credentials or certifications.
- Follow charting procedures and maintain records; complete in a timely manner according to department policy.
Essential Job Qualifications (Knowledge, Education, and Training Requirements):
- Minimum Associates degree and current healthcare professional certification in Therapy, Nursing, or O&P
- Experience with Delivering patient and family education
- Excellent customer service skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills; ability to multitask and meet deadlines
- Must be in good standings with health care professionals governing or credentialing body.
- Physical Demands:
- The physical ability to lift, position, and transport patients
- The ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, bend, kneel, twist, crawl, grasp, reach, and occasionally climb
- The ability to hear, speak, write and see (correctable vision)
- The ability to occasionally lift up to 50 pounds
- The ability to occasionally push, pull, or carry weight anywhere from 1 to 100+ pounds while assisting patients and moving equipment
- The ability to exert up to 20-50 pounds of force occasionally, 10-20 pounds of force frequently, and exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly
