- Coordination of Care
- Utilization Review
- Quality Improvement
- Measurement
- Registered nurse with a current license.
- Associate's degree required. BS or MS preferred.
- Recent experience in case management, utilization management and/or discharge planning/home care in a high volume, acute care hospital preferred. PRI and Case Management certification preferred.
- Demonstrates effective communication, facilitation, and organizational skills.
- Assertive and creative in problem solving, critical thinking skills, systems planning and patient care management.
- Self-directed with the ability to adapt in a changing environment.
- Basic knowledge of computer systems with skills applicable to utilization review process.
- Contributes to the creation of a compassionate and caring environment for patients, families, and colleagues through displays of kindness and active listening. Recognizes and appreciates that each employee's work is valuable and contributes to the success of the Mission.
- Demonstrates excellence in daily work. Willing to actively participate in performance and quality improvement activities and to work towards enhancing customer/patient satisfaction.
- Exhibits positive service excellence skills to patients, visitors, and coworkers by greeting others in a friendly manner, keeping customers/patients/colleagues informed about progress, delays, and changes.
- Demonstrates effective teamwork by interacting in a positive manner with colleagues and creating a collaborative work environment. Initiates open communication, conveys positive intent, offers assistance.
- Contributes to a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors, colleagues by following established procedures and protocols.
- Demonstrates stewardship by thoughtful and responsible use of resources including maintaining a clean and hospitable environment, starting work on time, displaying a consciousness regarding costs, supplies and department finances.
- Demonstrates respect for individual differences of each person by acknowledging the essence of each person, appreciating, and responding to unique, spiritual, personal, and cultural backgrounds of patients, families, and colleagues.
- Excellent health care coverage ) with lower copays at most Albany Med providers.
- A wide array of services and programs to support emotional, physical, and mental wellbeing )
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inpatient nurse case manager: mon-fri, day shift - Albany, NY , USA, United States - Albany Medical Center
Description
Department/Unit:
Care Management/Social Work
Work Shift:
Day (United States of America)
The Case Manager is accountable to facilitate the interdisciplinary team to plan, coordinate, implement and evaluate patient care for assigned service line across the continuum of care.
The Case Manager works proactively with the Quality Improvement Teams, patient care standards, Social Work, and utilization management to coordinate the appropriate use of resources to achieve maximum clinical and financial outcomes.
Salary Range:
$65, $107,348.80
Weekend Commitment:
Approx. 4 weekends per year
The Case Manager participates in maintaining quality care and performance improvement through leadership, problem solving, decision making, and outcome measurement.
The Case Manager functions as a resource for the health care team, community, patient/significant others/family and payers by functioning as a clinician, consultant, advocate and educator for assigned service.
The Case Manager participates in maintaining quality care and performance improvement through leadership, problem solving, decision making, and outcome measurement.
The Case Manager functions as a resource for the health care team, community, patient/significant others/family and payers by functioning as a clinician, consultant, advocate and educator for assigned service.
Principal Position ResponsibilitiesAssists the admission MD and or designated physician and the interdisciplinary teams in assuring coordination of care across the continuum of care in the hospital pre and post-op.
b.Proactively monitor patients' clinical process through /patient care standards and evidence-based guidelines to ensure timely, appropriate interventions that achieve optimal patient outcomes within appropriate LOS and financial constraints.
c.Provides collaborative care management with the primary nurse in assessing for discharge planning needs, coordinating appropriate resources and evaluating effectiveness of the discharge plan.
The discharge planning process needs to begin on admission.d.
Collaborates with the health care team and appropriate department in the management of care across the continuum of care, including pre-admission, discharge, post-discharge, planning length of stay, and utilization of resources.
e.Utilizes own special body of knowledge and evidence based guidelines to provide leadership and guidance to the health care team in formulating an individualized multidisciplinary plan of care to include:
pre hospitalization, acute hospital care, discharge education, transition to home and use of community resources.
f. Facilitates and participates in health care team care conference for patients with complex problems.
g. Facilitates patient and family education and the discharge process to promote continuity of care and optimal patient outcomes.
h. Demonstrates experience in the referral process and use of community resources.
Reviews data from admission screening to clarify admission diagnosis, establish appropriate length of stay, and identify any potential outliers and determine appropriateness of admission based on institutional standards and evidence based guidelines.
b. Contacts payer source to confirm/negotiate benefits and provide concurrent reviews.c. Identifies capitated patients to determine appropriate utilization of series and coordinates post hospital care using defined standards.
d. Identifies high-risk patients based on clinical and financial criteria for collaboration with patient financial services to problem-solve available resources.
e. Ensures that appropriate medical/legal documentation is contained in patient's records.
f.
Complies with regulations established by third party payers including but not limited to notices of non-coverage reinstatement and continued stay.
g. Follows department UM guidelines.Collaborates with the health care team in implementing strategies to reduce length of stay/resource consumption to optimize patient health status for an assigned service patient.
b.Assesses educational needs and provides learning opportunities for health care professionals relevant to particular cases and selected patient care groups.
c. Demonstrates creativity and critical thinking ability in the development of programs or projects.d. Works with quality improvement team for continuous improvement of patient care outcomes while increasing quality and decreasing cost.
e. Ensure that communication and transmission of documentation occurs with community agencies.
b. Communicates and analyzes aggregate variances with members of the health care team and develops strategies for variance reduction.
Qualifications and Ideal Characteristics
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to probe, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, and speak and hear.
The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be subject to infectious materials and chemicals (see unit specific MSDS information).
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
This job requires as an essential function that the majority of the time the employee be physically on-site as the work cannot be done from a remote location.
All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills, and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently.
Thank you for your interest in Albany Medical Center
Albany Medical is an equal opportunity employer.
This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Medical Center, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes.
Workforce members are expected to ensure that:
Access to information is based on a need to know and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties.
Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Center policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.
Albany Med is the centerpiece of medicine, research, and medical education in New York's CapitalRegion and is the area's largest private employer with more than 10,000 employees.
We value all our staff members and offer outstanding employee benefits including:
Anchored in the state's historic capital city, Albany Med offers a full range outpatient and inpatient careand is home to the region's largest hospital, only Level 1 trauma center, and only children's hospital.
Albany Med partners with Columbia Memorial Health, Saratoga Hospital and Glens Falls Hospital to form the Albany Med Health System, serving more than three million people over 25 counties.