Serves as an integral member of emergency department/CDU care team. Provides psychosocial assessments, coordination and implementation of age-appropriate social medicine services to meet the needs of patients/families/significant others in the emergency department and CDU.
Essential Responsibilities:
Participates as a member of the ED/CDU care team providing social medicine expertise in response to care team referrals and case finding of high need populations (e.g. new diagnosis, terminal illness, loss of function