Christopher Lapierre Email & Phone Number

Albany, NY, US

All New York State

New York, United States

United States

Supervised SW and Education departments for a 5 star rated highly medically complex rehab. patients consisted of Pediatrics, Ventilators, Traumatic Brain Injuries. Was a founding member of the rebuilding team starting in 2009 that turned it from a 1 star federally targeted building to a 5 star Nationally ranked facility and one of Americas top 100.

New York, United States

Troy, New York

• Provided consultative services to a 120 bed geriatric, sub acute rehab, long term care inpatient facility while overseeing a staff of four with leadership initiatives based in:
• Staff development and oversight
• Facilitation of hiring and retention efforts
• Departmental organization and training focused on facility wide cultural sensitivity, elder abuse in servicing, work related burnout, facility wide advanced directive in servicing and training
• Care planning
• Policy development and implementation

• Responsible for Admissions of a 262 Bed Skilled Nursing Facility as well of Director of Social Services Department
• Revenue expansion
• Admission and discharge planning
• Staff oversight of a team of 8 (4) social workers and (2) intake screeners, (1)Clergy and (1)Office assistant
• Intern/student development and oversight of (1)graduate level, (1) human service and chemical dependency interns
• Program development and policy implementation including: grievance/misappropriations, advanced directive, audit systems, psychological and psychiatric referral care systems and audits,

Niskayuna New York

• Responsibilities include providing psycho-social services for a 112 bed inpatient facility serving rehab and long term care geriatrics, pediatrics, TBI, vent and sub acute rehab inpatients and families. Leadership.
• Rebuilding a federal and state targeted, highly deficient, acute care facility from a 1 star facility to a 5 star facility in a four year period
• Strategic planning
• Revenue expansion
• Admission and discharge planning
• Staff oversight of a team of (2) social workers and (2) intake screeners

Troy, NY

• Provided consultative services to a 80 bed geriatric, sub acute rehab, long term care inpatient facility and a staff of four with leadership initiatives based in:
• Staff Development and Oversight
• Departmental Organization and Training
• Care Planning
• Policy Development and Implementation

Troy, New York

• Medical Social Worker for following units: Med/Surgical, Maternity, Emergency Room, ICU, CCU.Responsibilities and achievements included:
• First Social Worker to take over the substance abuse program achieving 100% referral to outpatient and inpatient rehab facilities
• Primary psychiatric pre-authorization facilitator for MICA and Gero-psych units
• Facilitator of first collaborative program change between case managers and nursing staff
• Discharge planning
• Crisis intervention