ScionHealth - Kindred Cornerstone & Solara Hospitals is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) Case Management for a nursing job in Austin, Texas.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Case Management
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: Ongoing
- 36 hours per week
- Employment Type: Staff
Description
At Cornerstone It Starts With Me.
Our commitment is to deliver excellence and an empathetic human experience to every patient, every family member, every employee, every time. We do this through our Core Values which help in guiding our work every day.
Job Summary: The Case Manager II coordinates and facilitates the care of the patient population through effective collaboration and communication with the Interdisciplinary Care Transitions (ICT) team members. Follows patients throughout the continuum of care and ensures optimum utilization of resources, service delivery and compliance with external review agencies. Provides ongoing support and expertise through comprehensive assessment, care planning, plan implementation and overall evaluation of individual patient needs. Enhances the quality of patient management and satisfaction, to promote continuity of care and cost effectiveness through the integration of functions of case management, utilization review and management, and discharge planning.
Essential Functions:
Care Coordination
- Coordinates clinical and/or psycho-social activities with the Interdisciplinary Team and Physicians.
- Monitors all areas of patients stay for effective care coordination and efficient care facilitation.
- Remains current from a knowledge base perspective regarding reimbursement modalities, community resources, case management, psychosocial and legal issues that affect patients and providers of care.
- Appropriately refers high risk patients who would benefit from additional support.
- Serves as a patient advocate. Enhances a collaborative relationship to maximize the patients and familys ability to make informed decisions.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and the skills necessary to provide age appropriate care to the patient population served.
- Participates in interdisciplinary patient care rounds and/or conferences to review treatment goals, optimize resource utilization, provide family education and identified post hospital needs. Collaborates with clinical staff in the development and execution of the plan of care, and achievement of goals.
- Coordinates with interdisciplinary care team, physicians, patients, families, post-acute providers, payors, and others in the planning of the patients care throughout the care continuum.
Discharge Planning
- Conducts comprehensive, ongoing assessment of patients to provide timely and safe discharge planning.
- Provide comprehensive discharge planning for each patient. Utilizes critical thinking to develop and execute effective discharge planning.
- Coordinates and communicates with patient/family efficiently and effectively.
Utilization Management
- Conducts medical necessity review for appropriate utilization of services from admission through discharge.
- Promotes effective and efficient utilization of clinical resources.
- Conducts timely and accurate clinical reviews, care collaboration and coordination of continued stay authorization with payor.
QualificationsEducation:
ScionHealth - Kindred Cornerstone & Solara Hospitals Job ID #512194. Posted job title: Case Manager Rn
About ScionHealth - Kindred Cornerstone & Solara Hospitals
Defined by its team of approximately 22,000 talented, heroic caregivers, ScionHealth strives to provide quality-driven, patient-centered acute and post-acute hospital solutions in communities across the country.The health system is focused on driving innovation and investing in people and technology to deliver compassionate patient care and excellent health outcomes in ways that lift a community and improve health equity. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, ScionHealth operates 79 hospital campuses in 25 states - 61 long-term acute care hospitals, and 18 community hospital campuses and associated health systems.ScionHealth launched in December 2021 following a transaction between leading healthcare companies LifePoint Health and Kindred Healthcare, with talent and resources from both companies combining to form an organization devoted to providing great care to tens of thousands of patients annually.For years, the hospitals now operated by ScionHealth have been vital to the communities they serve as medical providers, as supportive employers, and as inclusive partners in giving back. ScionHealth is proud to inherit this role and find innovative ways to grow and evolve for years to come.