Medical Nutrition Coordinator

Lincare • Richmond, VA

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About The Position

The Medical Nutrition Coordinator performs patient follow-up and is generally responsible for evaluating patient adherence to physician orders. The role provides patient education and assessments, supports enteral home care, and helps ensure patients receive appropriate care and equipment. It also involves coordinating referral and insurance information, maintaining records and payment paperwork, and delivering or collecting feeding supplies and equipment at patients’ homes or places of business.

The coordinator promotes safe and effective patient care and equipment use, maintains professional standards in interactions and written reports, and participates in ongoing education and training. The position requires reading and interpreting procedural materials, performing basic calculations, solving practical problems, following varied instructions, and using word processing, spreadsheets, and email.

Requirements

• Excellent human relations skills to interface with doctors, other referral sources, and patients.
• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, and email communications.

Nice To Haves

• One year of experience in home health care, a hospital, clinic, or nursing home is strongly preferred.
• Experience or education in dietetics, nutrition, home health, or nursing is strongly preferred.
• One year of experience as an LPN, DTR, or CNA is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient education according to patient needs and company policy.
• Perform complete and professional patient assessments in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Maintain current knowledge of enteral home care techniques and relevant enteral therapy concepts.
• Represent the company through professional personal appearance, patient care activities, and written reports.
• Gather information from referral sources to ensure insurance coverage for each enteral patient.
• Follow up on paperwork needed to ensure payment for services rendered.
• Maintain complete and organized patient records in compliance with accreditation standards.
• Drive to admit patients and deliver or pick up enteral formula, feeding pumps, IV poles, and related feeding supplies at patients’ homes or places of business.
• Provide patient care, treatment, and services in a continuous and coordinated manner in settings appropriate to patient needs.
• Promote safe and effective patient and organizational environments, including safe use of feeding equipment.
• Participate in ongoing education, including in-services, training, and other activities to maintain and improve competence.
• Read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, procedure manuals, and other written, oral, diagram, or schedule-based instructions.
• Calculate figures and amounts, including commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Solve practical problems involving a variety of concrete variables where standardization is limited.
• Use word processing, spreadsheets, and email communications.

Benefits

• Ongoing training and advancement opportunities.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• Retirement savings.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee referral program.
• Employee discounts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed