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Legacy Health Case Manager - Care Management Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled US-WA-VANCOUVER Job ID: 25-42557 Type: Part Time - Benefitted Salmon Creek Medical Ctr campus Overview
You are the voice, the coordinator and the empathetic advocate of patients facing difficult situations. Your compassion for patients and families with acute and chronic health conditions knows no limits. You are committed to working with healthcare teams to ensure every patient receives the care, comfort and dignity they deserve. If this is how you define your role as a Case Manager, we invite you to consider this opportunity.
Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center is Southwest Washington's most modern hospital, offering the latest technology in a setting designed for comfort and care for the whole family. We feature innovations in joint replacement, robotic surgery, pelvic health for women, cancer care, intensive care for newborns, neurosurgery, medical care for children and more.
Responsibilities
Facilitates daily multidisciplinary care coordination meetings to clarify patient plan of care.
Communicates with patients and their families concerning the progress of patient recovery goals and ongoing care needs.
Organizes and/or participates in patient care conferences.
Coordinates care and expected outcomes between patients/families and healthcare team including nurses, social workers, physicians, therapists, and community agencies and resources.
Develops and maintains a collaborative working relationship with all team members.
Follows evidence-based best practice.
Serves as the clinical resource manager for patients with complex care needs.
Provides consultations for patients who do not follow or have multiple variances from a pre-established clinical path.
Assesses patient care priorities with patient and staff as part of the health care team and participates in determining outcomes of interventions.
Collaborates with patient, family, and other health care professionals in the establishment of goals and implementation of patient plan of care. May provide home visits when necessary.
Facilitates referrals, multidisciplinary review and planning for specific patients.
Maintains currency in case management practice and principles specific to venue.
Ensures transition plan reflects national guidelines and/or approved protocols/pathways.
Maintains knowledge of professional standards of practice through participation in continuing education, community and professional activities, and committee membership.
Assists patient care team to identify and coordinate appropriate level of care across the health care continuum.
Focuses on promoting early intervention for complex patients and communicating a coordinated plan of care to prevent unnecessary complications and negative patient outcomes.
Communicates with UM RN(s) and with insurance and community case managers, when appropriate, to discuss benefits and obtain authorization for alternative level of care.
Assists health care team to incorporate the educational needs of patients and/or families concerning alterations in health and the disease process into the plan of care.
Assists with patient and family education as appropriate and necessary.
Collaborates with Legacy leadership to identify educational needs of staff.
Participates in and/or leads committees and task forces.
Participates in identifying needs and developing programs which facilitate attainment of organizational goals.
Represents applicable clinical areas in the review and development of hospital and overall system policies, procedures, protocols, guidelines, and standards.