Leads the care management team in facilitating appropriate use of hospital resources and effective discharge planning and coordination of services to transition patients to the next appropriate level of care. This role requires onsite acute-care experience, compassion, and empathy for patients. The manager oversees educational, financial, and human resources for the care management teams, supporting high-quality, cost-effective, responsive, patient-focused services. The role coordinates staffing and workload distribution, builds relationships with hospital and community stakeholders, supports payer relationships and reimbursement, monitors utilization measures, and leads performance-improvement and population-health initiatives. The position also oversees regulatory education and compliance, budget implementation, service-problem resolution, incident-report follow-up, staff meetings, and human-resources functions. It facilitates physicians and nursing staff on utilization and discharge planning, care coordination, and utilization-management issues; maintains confidentiality and policy compliance; and provides dashboard statistics on team effectiveness.
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Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager