General Epidemiologist – Hemodialysis, National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Coordinator

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🎰 Nevada – Remote

🎰 Nevada – Remote

💵 $70k / year

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CDC Foundation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1995

🏥 Healthcare

🤝 Non-profit

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Non-profit • Healthcare Insurance

CDC Foundation is a non-profit organization that collaborates with donors and partners to advance public health initiatives globally. By leveraging collaboration, the foundation works to improve community health, enhance health communication, and develop workforce solutions. The foundation supports over 1,400 programs since its inception, contributing to data modernization, global health security, and emergency responses to health threats. Through partnerships with community-based organizations and global entities, the CDC Foundation empowers thriving communities and promotes effective health communications, all while focusing on contemporary challenges such as COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance.

📋 Description

• Work with the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health’s Healthcare Associated Infection Program • Perform gap assessments on hemodialysis clinics’ healthcare-associated infection data in Nevada • Develop training tools • Perform data analysis on hemodialysis clinic healthcare-associated infection data • Use NHSN data, survey data, and facility characteristics to identify outpatient hemodialysis facilities for Infection Prevention Assessments and Response (ICAR) • Perform statewide surveillance and analyze aggregate NHSN data on healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance to monitor trends and identify emerging regional outbreaks • Assist local healthcare facilities with NHSN enrollment, training, and compliance with state- or CMS-mandated reporting requirements • Conduct outbreak investigations, including COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, within state-licensed healthcare facilities • Establish and maintain relationships with CMS-funded End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network • Improve infection prevention and control capacity in outpatient hemodialysis facilities through education, prevention-practice improvements, surveillance, outbreak reporting, and monitoring • Participate actively in CDC’s Making Dialysis Safer for Patients Coalition • Perform landscape analysis of outpatient dialysis service locations, focusing on home dialysis, including dialysis in nursing homes • Participate in the outbreak team through management of healthcare-facility outbreaks • Travel throughout Nevada as required • Adapt responsibilities as public-health priorities and program needs evolve

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in nursing, health science, behavioral science, or a closely related field applicable to the program area, and two years of public health related experience, including at least two specified public-health activity areas; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience • Experience using CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) as an Administrator • 2-year minimum experience working with hemodialysis facilities and patients • Certification in Infection Control recommended but not required • Nevada residency preferred • Must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 as a condition of employment • Must possess and maintain a valid driver's license in the state of residence • Must self-report motor vehicle violations/convictions • Must provide proof of acceptable insurance coverage under the Driver Safety Motor Vehicle Policy • Must meet all minimum qualifications of the Driver Safety Motor Vehicle Policy

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits provided • COVID-19 vaccination required as a condition of employment • Smoke-free environment • Relocation expenses are not included