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Advocate Health Care

Nonprofit health system delivering comprehensive care

Physical Therapist - Sports Medicine

Rehabilitation TherapiesConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWinston-Salem, NC, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A B.S., M.S., or D.P.T. degree from an accredited physical therapy school.
  • Current licensure in the applicable state.
  • Current CPR certification in Basic Life Support, Level C.

Responsibilities

  • Provide patient care assessment and treatment, ensuring evaluations and treatments are comprehensive, functional, and consistent with the Standard of Practice.
  • Use professional judgment to interpret evaluation results and establish acceptable treatment plans with realistic goals.
  • Encourage patients and significant others to set goals, recognize and respond to changes in patients' physiologic states, recommend the next level of care, and ensure quality patient outcomes.
  • Supervise support staff assisting with patient care by providing direction and feedback.
  • Maintain accurate documentation, including written patient evaluations, progress notes, and discharge notes per policy.
  • Ensure accurate and timely documentation of patient and family education, charges, departmental statistics, and ICD-10 codes as appropriate; maintain patient records systematically and ensure documentation is legible.
  • Meet department financial and productivity standards, understand budgeted expectations, maintain productivity standards, and adjust individual schedules to meet patient and department needs.
  • Participate in process management to optimize service quality and efficiency, identify quality and operational opportunities, communicate progress barriers to a supervisor, and research and suggest evidence-based best practices to improve patient care.
  • Promote professional development and education of other health care workers, represent the department on committees, and conduct in-service training programs to share current information and enhance safety.
  • Keep informed about developments in the profession locally, at the state level, and nationally; share clinical expertise with therapists, student affiliates, and other health care professionals.
  • Communicate professionally and promptly with patients, physicians, staff, and external customers; respond to staff questions, share information learned from seminars, inform a supervisor of issues and resolutions, and communicate information to patients and families to ensure understanding.
  • Provide appropriate patient care in accordance with age- and developmental-specific guidelines, using relevant knowledge and skills to assess patients and interpret their responses to treatment or activity accurately.
  • Maintain competence in age- and developmental-specific patient care by regularly updating knowledge of growth and development and the aging process.
  • Follow hospital and departmental policies and procedures and contribute to a cooperative work environment and the overall quality of services.
  • Keep informed about changes in policies and procedures.

About the Company

Advocate Health Care

Nonprofit health system delivering comprehensive care

Advocate Health Care is a faith-based nonprofit health system serving Illinois and Wisconsin with a network of hospitals, clinics, and providers. It delivers a broad range of medical services using current techniques and ongoing research, coordinated through clinical integration. The organization offers financial advocacy and assistance to help uninsured or underinsured patients manage hospital bills. Its goal is to improve patient care and expand access by combining high-quality medical services, financial support, and a commitment to clinical excellence.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Late Stage VC
Total funding
$18M
Headquarters
Oak Brook, IL
Founded
1976

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