RN, Care Manager Full-Time, Day Shift

Adventist Health • Glendale, CA

2d • $58 - $79

About The Position

The RN, Care Manager provides patient care by assisting with the collaboration, development, implementation, revision, and reporting of the case management program. The role 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 Care Manager coordinates continuity of care for a defined patient population from pre-admission through post-discharge and helps patients and families proceed efficiently through hospitalization.

The position leads coordination of care across disciplines, monitors care appropriateness and timeliness, and helps ensure interdisciplinary plans align with patients’ clinical courses, continuing-care needs, and covered services. It works with physicians on resource utilization, consultations, treatment plans, estimated lengths of stay, and discharge plans, with a focus on complex patients and specific high-utilization or vulnerable groups. The role also coordinates transfers to tertiary centers and supports regulatory and accreditation compliance through oversight and data collection.

Requirements

• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice is required.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from an approved vendor per Adventist Health policy is required.
• All associates must receive required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable; medical and religious exemptions may apply.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Lead coordination of patient care with other disciplines on the care team, monitoring the appropriateness and timeliness of care.
• Ensure the interdisciplinary care plan is consistent with the patient’s clinical course, continuing-care needs, and covered services by monitoring diagnostic testing, treatments, procedures, and other aspects of acute care.
• 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 patient transfers to tertiary centers, including transfer of 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 reviews of previous and current admissions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

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