Overview
Position Overview
The Illinois Department of Public Health is seeking a highly motivated individual to conduct surveys, investigations and monitoring visits for persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities to determine compliance with State Licensure requirements and/or Federal Medicaid certification regulations. This individual prepares licensure and certification survey/investigation forms, memoranda and reports of findings and conducts on-site monitoring visits at non-compliant facilities.
Job Responsibilities
Travels and conducts surveys of intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities, facilities for medical complicated individuals with intellectual disabilities, and community living facilities to determine level of compliance with State Licensure regulations and Federal Medicaid (Title XVIII) certification standards.
• Prepares federal certification and State Licensure Survey reports and related compliance documents as required by State Licensure and Federal Certification Survey Policies to document survey findings.
• Conducts complaint and incident report investigations at regulated facilities pursuant to the requirements of the ID/DD Community Care Act and Medicaid standards.
• Conducts early morning and/or evening observations.
• Participates as a team member during the conduction of Inspection of Care (IOC) surveys, ensuring that the IOC review process, including completion of documentation, for facility conformance is completed in accordance with State rules and regulations.
• Serves as a team leader or member as assigned.
Prepares licensure and certification survey/investigation forms, memoranda, and reports of findings as required.
• Documents survey/investigation findings in accordance with the mandated federal principles of documentation.
Reviews contents and significance of survey with various operating and management personnel of the facility or agency.
• Keeps supervisor advised of status and progress of survey documents.
• Submits survey package with all required documentation within the prescribed time limits.
• Appears as a witness in Department or non-department hearings or court actions pursuant to survey findings documented.
Conducts on-site monitoring visits at non-compliant facilities pursuant to the monitoring requirements established by the ID/DD Community Care Act.
• Prepares monitoring reports and makes recommendations to supervisor regarding the status of the health and safety of resident at monitored facilities.
• Conducts on-site investigations in response to incident reports of facilities emergencies or disasters that impact the health and safety of facility residents.
• Keeps supervisor advised of stats and progress of monitoring visits and emergency incident report investigations.
Participates in staff meetings and training sessions designed to improve survey performance.
• Assists with orientation of newly employed health facilities surveillance nurses.
Performs other duties as required or assigned within the scope of the responsibilities enumerated above.
About Illinois Department Public Health
In Illinois, if you have eaten at a restaurant ... required hospital or nursing home care ... vacationed at a campground or swam at a public beach or pool ... drank a glass of milk ... got married or divorced ... had a baby, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has touched your life in some important way.
Assuring the quality of our food, setting the standards for hospital and nursing home care, checking the safety of recreation areas, overseeing the inspection of milk producing farms and processing plants, maintaining the state's vital records and screening newborns for genetic diseases are just some of the duties of IDPH.
In fact, IDPH has 200 different programs that benefit each state resident and visitor, although its daily activities of maintaining the public's health are rarely noticed unless a breakdown in the system occurs. With the assistance of local public health agencies, these essential programs and services make up Illinois' public health system, a system that forms a frontline defense against disease through preventive measures and education. Public health has provided the foundation for remarkable gains in saving lives and reducing suffering. Today, life expectancy is 80 years for women and 74 years for men compared with fewer than 50 years at the at the beginning of the 20th century.
In the past, IDPH directed state efforts to control smallpox, cholera and typhoid, virtually eliminated polio, reduced dental decay through fluoridation of community water supplies, and corrected sanitary conditions that threatened water and food supplies.
Today, IDPH has programs to deal with persistent problems that require continued vigilance – infectious diseases, such as AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and meningococcal disease; foodborne and communicable diseases, such as E. coli 0157: H7, monkeypox, salmonella and West Nile virus; vaccine preventable diseases; lead poisoning; lack of health care in rural areas; health disparities among racial groups, breast, cervical and prostate cancer; Alzheimer's disease; and other health threats -- sexually transmitted diseases, tobacco use, violence, and other conditions associated with high-risk behaviors. In addition, IDPH has been charged with handling the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of bioterrorism.
IDPH, which is one of the state's oldest agencies, was first organized in 1877 with a staff of three and a two-year budget of $5,000. IDPH, now has an annual budget of $2.9 billion in state and federal funds, headquarters in Springfield and Chicago, seven regional offices located around the state, three laboratories, and 1,200 employees.
IDPH is organized into 12 offices, each of which addresses a distinct area of public health. Each office operates and supports numerous ongoing programs and is prepared to respond to extraordinary situations as they arise.
