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CarDon is a family-owned senior-living company with more than 20 communities in the Midwest. We offer independent and assisted living, rehabilitation, skilled nursing and memory support. We’re rapidly growing, offer a wide variety of career paths, and reward bright ideas and hard work. Work for the best and join the Heart of the CarDon family of care.

The Clinical Specialist is responsible to assigned communities for evaluating Nursing Services, promoting a high quality of nursing care, developing systems and procedures designed to make services efficient, and assure compliance with accepted clinical practices, state and federal regulations, and company policies.

• Evaluates the quality of clinical services in assigned communities.
• Evaluates systems governing Nursing Services to identify compliance and opportunities for improvement within assigned communities and makes recommendations to the Nursing Management and Administrator as needed.
• Helps in recruitment and training of Directors of Nursing and other nursing leadership as requested.
• Reviews and augments as needed the Quality Assurance activities of nursing services conducted by facility committees within assigned communities.
• Visits assigned communities as needed.
• Confers with the Administrator and Director of Nursing upon each visit and provides reports and updates as needed to the Director of Clinical Services.
• Attends any administrative training meetings as scheduled.
• Makes presentations at administrative training meetings when requested.
• Helps Clinical Navigation Specialist train nurses in case-mix and RUGS for maximum facility reimbursement.
• Reviews facility consultant reports as part of routine QA for assigned communities.
• Complies with customer services principles and reports any concerns identified during a visit to the Administrator.
• Reviews and assists with the reporting of all assigned communities’ State Reportables.
• Reports to assigned communities during an inspection survey to provide support; and collaborates with the Administrator and DON to develop and write corrective responses and the related QA activities required for nursing allegations cited during surveys.
• Participates in scheduled CQR process to identify any clinical areas of concern related to survey readiness.