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Universal Health Services

Manages hospitals and behavioral health facilities

Manager Clinical Nutrition

Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWest Palm Beach, FL, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Must hold a Florida State Dietitian License and AND Registration.
  • Acute care experience is required.
  • Must recognize the signs and symptoms of stroke, call a stroke alert overhead, and verbalize the stroke alert process.
  • Must maintain current stroke knowledge by completing the annual one-hour online training.

Responsibilities

  • Manage the clinical dietetics portion of the department, including nutrition assessment and reassessment, nutrition counseling and education, revising enteral formulas, formulating modified diets, performance improvement projects designated by the director, and education functions needed to provide quality nutrition care to patients.
  • Integrate clinical dietetics into food services to ensure cohesive operations, that all team members have individualized basic knowledge of nutrition as it relates to patient care, and that clinical systems within the department are well integrated.
  • Assess nutritional status, including potential dehydration due to reluctance to drink fluids or fear of choking, dysphagia, inappropriate food consistency for the assessed condition, increased risk of respiratory complications, and enteral nutrition needs.
  • Provide patient and family education on special diets.

About the Company

Universal Health Services

Manages hospitals and behavioral health facilities

Universal Health Services operates a network of acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, and ambulatory centers across the United States. It generates its services by acquiring and managing healthcare facilities, then integrating them under centralized operating practices to deliver patient care. The company’s offering is the management and provision of hospital and behavioral health services, with a focus on standardized clinical operations, economies of scale, and nationwide coverage. What sets UHS apart is its long history of growth through acquisitions, its size and scale in both acute and behavioral health markets, and its ability to integrate new facilities while maintaining consistent care quality. Its goal is to provide high-quality healthcare across a broad network, improve patient outcomes, and sustain long-term value for shareholders by expanding access and efficiency in hospital and behavioral health services.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania
Founded
1978

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