Weekend Intake Coordinator - Home Health

Sequoia Home Health and Hospice • Milpitas, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Weekend Intake Coordinator - Home Health is responsible for managing all aspects of the patient intake process. This includes communicating directly with patients and families, data entry, establishing and maintaining positive relationships with customers and referral sources, responding to customer requests and concerns, facilitating a daily intake stand up meeting, and managing the insurance verification and authorization processes. Sequoia Home Health is part of the Cornerstone/Pennant Group with close to 80 locations throughout the country. While we are part of a large family, we operate as a local team. We understand we are nothing without great employees! It is through our team’s dedication to deliver life changing service that we become the “provider of choice” in the community that we serve. Join a culture of high performers who are on a mission to create the best Home Health and Hospice agency in the Bay Area! At Sequoia Home Health, we foster an environment where clinicians and staff members have an unprecedented level of freedom to create and implement the programs that will best serve their patients and communities. We operate with the Core Values of CAPLICO in mind: Celebration Accountability Passion for Learning Love One Another Intelligent Risk Taking Customer Second Ownership.

Requirements

• Healthcare experience, preferably in referrals/intake in a home health environment.
• Demonstrates good communication, negotiation, and public relations skills.
• Demonstrates autonomy, assertiveness, flexibility and cooperation in performing job responsibilities.

Nice To Haves

• A nursing background is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Directs all daily patient referral and intake operations including providing direct oversight of the establishment and implementation of intake policies.
• Directs the implementation of improved work methods and procedures to ensure patients are admitted in accordance with policy.
• Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with current and potential referral sources.
• Ensures seamless transition of patients to home care by providing direct oversight of patient education and preparation for home care, plan of care initiation, and coordination of care with multiple service providers.
• Ensures maximum third party reimbursement through direct oversight of insurance verification and authorization processes.
• Maintains comprehensive working knowledge of Home Health contractual relationships and ensures that patients are admitted according to contract provisions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed