RN, Care Manager, Full Time, Day Shift

Adventist Health•Portland, OR

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About The Position

Adventist Health Portland is hiring a full-time, day-shift RN, Care Manager. The role provides patient care through collaboration on the development, implementation, revision, and reporting of the case management program. The Care Manager serves as a liaison among patients, families, nurses, physicians, the multidisciplinary team, and patients’ healthcare benefactors to optimize outcomes, and consults with the healthcare team on specific patient needs. The position coordinates continuity of care for a defined patient population from pre-admission through post-discharge and helps patients and families move efficiently through hospitalization. The role coordinates care across disciplines, monitors the appropriateness and timeliness of care, and helps ensure interdisciplinary care plans reflect patients’ clinical courses, continuing care needs, and covered services. It includes consultation with physicians on resource use, treatment plans, estimated length of stay, and discharge planning; focus on complex and other identified patient populations; coordination of transfers to tertiary centers; and oversight and data collection for regulatory and accreditation compliance. Adventist Health requires associates to receive required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter where applicable. Medical and religious exemptions may apply. The organization participates in E-Verify.

Requirements

Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice is required.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
Experience in a care management role preferred.
Case management certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead coordination of patient care with other care-team disciplines and monitor the appropriateness and timeliness of care.
Ensure interdisciplinary care plans are consistent with patients’ clinical courses, continuing care needs, and covered services by monitoring diagnostic testing, treatments, procedures, and other aspects of acute care as appropriate.
Discuss resource utilization, consultations, treatment plans, estimated length of stay, and discharge plans with physicians.
Focus on complex patients, frequent emergency department utilizers, chronic pain patients, substance abuse patients, and homeless patients.
Collaborate with acute care case managers to ensure ongoing care is appropriate.
Coordinate transfers to tertiary centers, including transfer of patient information needed for continuity of treatment and services.
Provide oversight and collect data required for regulatory and accreditation compliance.
Manage frequent emergency department visitors by conducting focused study reviews of previous and current admissions.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Assist in collaboration, development, implementation, revision, and reporting of the case management program.
Act as a liaison among patients, families, nurses, physicians, the multidisciplinary team, and patients’ healthcare benefactors.
Coordinate continuity of care for a defined patient population from pre-admission through post-discharge and support efficient progress through hospitalization.
Serve as a consultant to the healthcare team on specific patient items.