Inpatient Care Manager

Advocate Health•Park Ridge, IL

6d•$38 - $57•Onsite

About The Position

The Inpatient Care Manager is responsible for conducting complete assessments, establishing appropriate plans, and initiating interventions within desired timeframes. This role collaborates and negotiates effectively with patients, families, and healthcare teams to achieve patient and organizational goals related to care needs, choices, and satisfaction during discharge planning and care transitions. The position involves utilizing patient/family strengths in problem-solving, involving them in the decision-making process from admission throughout the hospital stay. The Care Manager provides continuity of care and discharge planning services compliant with regulatory standards by offering coordinated options and services based on assessed needs, ensuring patients, families, and the healthcare team are informed and able to proceed with accountabilities in a timely manner. This includes facilitating smooth transitions for patients, families, and staff during transfers. The role also involves providing case management services for various levels of healthcare, finances, housing, family discord, or illness adjustment, managing family dynamics and crisis situations professionally, using community resources effectively, and educating patients/families on accessing and using services. The Inpatient Care Manager initiates internal and external referrals to ensure timely progression of care and transitions, documents discharge planning interventions and utilization review activity per department and medical center standards, and performs accurate and timely concurrent and retrospective reviews based on approved established criteria. Effective communication with the healthcare team is crucial, working in partnership with Social Work and unlicensed support personnel to establish and implement a safe plan of care. The role serves as an active member of the MDR, collaborating with medical staff, hospital departments, and ancillary services to identify and resolve barriers to discharge, expedite care delivery, and implement and report care coordination, discharge planning, and utilization management (UM) activities. Collaboration with managers, physicians, medical directors, advisory groups, and treatment teams on physician practices and best practices for the patient's plan of care is expected, with referrals to a physician advisor as needed. The Inpatient Care Manager remains knowledgeable in healthcare regulations, reimbursement issues, length of stay impacts, and community resources, completing UM activities as required, including providing clinical updates to payers, collecting data, coordinating denial activity, supporting UM activity, and managing avoidable delays. Delivering CMS regulatory notices within established timeframes is also a responsibility. Developing and maintaining productive relationships with community-based agencies and networks, representing Advocate Health Care positively, and working collaboratively to meet patient/family needs are key. The role also involves collaboration with Advocate Ambulatory Care Management and Continuing Health to meet common goals. The Inpatient Care Manager serves as an educator and expert resource to medical and hospital staff regarding admission status, acute care criteria, utilization management, care coordination, discharge planning, and relevant regulatory requirements. The position requires the ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served, understanding principles of growth and development over the life span and assessing data to identify patient's age-specific needs and provide appropriate care.

Requirements

Graduate of a Board of Nursing approved nursing education program (RN)
Current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner in the state in which you work and reside or if declaring a National License Compact (NLC) state as your primary state of residency, meet the licensure requirements in your home state; or for Non-National License Compact states, (where applicable) current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse
Typically requires 3 years of related nursing experience.
Clinical experience within the assigned population.
Extensive knowledge of disease processes and clinical outcomes.
Ability to prioritize and organize work.
Effective communication skills.
Utilization of critical thinking and timely decision making.
Ability to navigate the Electronic Health Record.
Basic utilization of MS Office products.
Knowledge of Medicare A and B guidelines.
Knowledge of Managed Care program requirements/implications.
Ability to apply elements of Utilization Management programs.

Nice To Haves

Preferred Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN).
Case Management experience or background preferred.
Strong critical thinking and analytical skills preferred.
Appropriate Professional certification preferred within 3 years of hire

Responsibilities

Conducts complete assessments, establishes appropriate plans, and initiates interventions within desired timeframes.
Collaborates and negotiates effectively with patient, family, and team while striving to achieve patient and organizational goals with regard to patient’s care needs, choice and satisfaction when discharge planning/transitioning care.
Utilizes patient/family strengths in the problem-solving process, involving the patient/family and team in the decision-making process beginning on admission and continuing throughout patient’s hospital stay.
Provides continuity of care and discharge planning services compliant with regulatory standards by providing coordinated relevant options and services based on assessed needs to ensure patient/family and healthcare team is informed and able to proceed with accountabilities in a timely manner.
Participates in the communication process to facilitate a smooth transition for patient, family, and staff when patients are transferred.
Provides case management services related to various levels of health care, finances, housing, family discord, or illness adjustment, based department scope.
Manages family dynamics and crisis situations in a timely and professional manner, using community resources effectively, and educating patient/family regarding access to and use of services.
Initiates internal and external referrals to assure timely progression of care and transitions.
Documents discharge planning interventions and utilization review activity per department and medical center standards in a timely manner.
Performs and documents accurate and timely concurrent and retrospective reviews based on approved established criteria as required by department standards.
Communicates effectively with the healthcare team.
Works in partnership with Social Work and unlicensed support personnel to effectively establish and implement a safe plan of care.
Serves as an active member of the MDR and works closely with medical staff, hospital departments and ancillary services in identification and resolution of barriers to discharge, expediting care delivery to avoid delays in timely service provision, and implementing and reporting care coordination, discharge planning and utilization management (UM) activities.
Collaborates with managers, physicians, medical directors, advisory groups, and treatment teams for issues related to physician practices and best practices for the patient’s plan of care.
Refers cases to physician advisor as needed to ensure efficient progression of care, accurate status, and compliance with regulatory guidelines.
Remains knowledgeable in issues of healthcare regulations, reimbursement issues, impact on length of stay and community resources.
Completes UM activities as required based on local structure to include providing clinical updates to payers and/or external review organizations, collecting data, coordinating denial activity, supporting UM activity, and managing avoidable delays.
Delivers CMS regulatory notices within CMS established timeframes, as appropriate based on-site guidelines.
Develops and maintains productive relationships with community-based agencies and networks by representing Advocate Health Care in a positive manner working collaboratively, internally, and externally, to meet patient/family needs.
Works in collaboration with Advocate Ambulatory Care Management and Continuing Health to meet common goals and outcomes.
Serves as an educator and expert resource to medical and hospital staff regarding admission status and acute care criteria, utilization management issues, care coordination and discharge planning needs, and relevant regulatory requirements.
Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.

Benefits

Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs
Competitive compensation
Generous retirement offerings
Programs that invest in your career development
Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
Incentive pay for select positions
Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Paid Time Off programs
Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
Educational Assistance Program