Maria Gotfryd

9432 S. Kolmar #1E

Oak Lawn, IL 60453
708-229-2802
mg1130eee@westpost.net
WORK HISTORY
Jackson Park Hospital
Director of Social Work Services
October 2004-July 2009
* Supervised 4 staff covering emergency department, ICU, medical-surgical and ma
ternity unit.
* Supervised 1-2 Bachelors or Masters of Social Work students per school year.
* Member of Ethics/Palliative Care, Acute Care, Customer Service, and Utilizatio
n Review Committees.
* Reinstituted weekly interdepartmental meeting to address long stays on the med
ical units.
* Presented statistics at Utilization Review quarterly meeting tracking length o
f stay based on physician.
* Team leader of the Ethics and Patients' Rights Committee in preparation for JC
AHO.
* Participated in Tracers throughout medical, psychiatric, and detoxification un
its in preparation for JCAHO.
* Coverage on all medical units during absence of staff.
* Presented at resident orientation on the role of the social worker in the medi
cal setting.
* Organized presentation for social work month on hospice, elder abuse, and case
management services for the developmentally disabled.
University of Illinois Hospital
July 2001-September 2004
* Provided ongoing financial and psychosocial support to 136 hemodialysis and 25
peritoneal dialysis patients.
* Provided placement services to newly diagnosed dialysis patients referred from
outpatient clinic or hospital.
* Administered depression inventory to newly diagnosed dialysis patients and rec
ommended clinic guidelines for treatment based on results.
* Liaison in collaboration with Ernst and Young's internal financial audit.
* Revised patient handbook.
* Attended monthly patient review and quarterly quality assurance meetings.
* Maintained and distributed patient education material.

Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital

Case Manager
January 1999-June 2001
* Created pediatric assessment tool to determine frequency of outpatient case ma
nagement contact to increase continuity of care and compliance with medical foll
ow up.
* Created various forms improving the flow of information among and within depar
tments
* Coordinated with DCFS and local schools to assure children received proper com
munity services.
* Provided discharge planning and insurance reviews for pediatric and adult pati
ents with various medical diagnoses.
* Orient new case managers.
Everest Healthcare, Inc.
Renal Social Worker
August 1989-November 1999
* Provided ongoing financial and psychosocial support to 125-255 hemodialysis pa
tients and 10-15 peritoneal dialysis patients.
* Created tracking system for missed treatments, ensuring proper billing and inc
reasing patient compliance.
* Worked on departmental project assessing effectiveness of various intervention
s on medical compliance.
* Member of clinic management team in revising scheduling system, allowing 70 mo
re patients per week to be treated and developing and monitoring clinic budget.
* Maintained materials used for patient and staff education.
* Recruited patients for NIH study on dialysis efficiency and effectiveness.
* Created HIV in-services used throughout the corporation.
* Provided 3-6 in-services to staff yearly.
* Orient new social worker s.
EDUCATION AND LICENSURE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Masters of Social Work 1987
Bachelors of Social Work 1985
Everest Healthcare management seminars 1990-1999
University of Illinois at Chicago grant writing course 2004
Licensed Clinical Social Worker 1992-present

Reference available upon request