New York State Department of Health
Rochester, NY
The duties that the incumbent of the vacancy will be expected to perform. Duties Description This position requires fieldwork and travel; supervision and training of lower-level staff, including Health Care Surveyors 1 (Nursing); participation in a range of surveillance activities, including but not limited to conducting complaint/incident investigations and on-site surveys of hospitals and Diagnostic and Treatment Centers and other health care facilities as required to determine compliance with Federal and State rules and regulations; serves as part of a surveillance team, and may be responsible for the facilitation of surveillance team operations including: • Preparing offsite surveillance activities for the rest of the surveillance team prior to onsite entrance. This includes researching historical information about the facility, such as past survey trends, complaint allegations, facility reported incidents, and assigns responsibilities for each of the survey team members. •...

