Convalescent Care (CVC) Physician

Job Summary

• member of the local Division of Family Practice Long-Term Care Initiative (LTCI).
• collaborates with the local LTCI.
• collaborates with the Regional Medical Director, Long-Term Care & Assisted Living (LTCAL) and members of the Long-Term Care and Assisted Living Physician Leadership Team.
• collaborates with the local long-term care community leadership.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Responsible for all admissions to, and discharges from the CVC unit.
• Provides an admission history and physical on all patients on the CVC unit.
• Provides a discharge summary, with a copy to the family physician, on all patients on the CVC unit.
• Visits the CVC unit not less than three times per week.
• Visits individual patients on the CVC unit not less than once per week.
• Ensures patients have Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment that are complete and up-to-date.
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