Care Coordination Assistant - Care Coordination - Danbury Hospital - Danbury, CT

Northwell Health; Danbury (CT); On-site; USD 27,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health's Danbury Hospital is seeking a Care Coordination Assistant to facilitate hospital discharges. You will coordinate with a multidisciplinary team, arrange transportation, and ensure accurate transmission of discharge information to post-acute providers.

You will support the discharge planning process, document updates in the electronic medical record, and communicate details to physicians, patients, families, and care partners.

Qualifications

• Minimum high school diploma and two years’ experience in an acute care hospital or equivalent.
• Ability to prioritize and solve problems while working with physicians, patients, families and the care team.
• Excellent proofreading and data entry skills; ability to use a keyboard and enter, retrieve, and transform data.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Care Coordination team to prioritize and execute discharges for the day.
• Transmits clinical information to post-acute providers through the electronic referral system.
• Updates discharge plan and informs physicians, patients, families and care team of arrangements.
• Maintains department telephone lines and handles mail and referrals; supports audits and special projects as requested.

Skills

Prioritization skills

Problem solving

Communication

Proofreading

Education

High school diploma

Some college preferred

Tools

Spreadsheets (Excel)

Job description

Description

Northwellis the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, serving residents of New York and Connecticut with 28 hospitals, more than 1,000 outpatient facilities, 22,000 nurses and over 20,000 physicians. Northwell cares for more than three million people annually in the New York metro area, including Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Northwell is New York State's largest private employer with over 104,000 employees - including members ofNorthwell Health Physician Partners- who are working to change health care for the better.

Title: Care Coordination Assistant - Care Coordination - Danbury Hospital - Danbury, CT - Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30, one weekend each month

Summary

The Care Coordination Assistant works at the direction of the Clinical Care Coordinator and assists in facilitating discharges from the hospital to home or extended care facilities by coordinating various processes related to implementation of the discharge plan. This may include listing cases to nursing homes and home care agencies electronically, obtaining insurance pre- authorizations, confirming needed services, equipment, etc., transmitting referrals, arranging transportation, coordinating arrangements with patients, families, and the interdisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with Care Coordination team members to prioritize and execute discharges for the day.
• Assures thorough and accurate transmission of clinical information to post acute providers through the electronic referral software system.
• Monitors message board in system and advises health care team, patient and family of the resources available to them.
• Prepares/sends all required documentation to next level of care.
• Issues Important Message for Medicare as requested.
• Prepares/faxes electronic medical record for QIO appeals.
• Assures that all requests from all referral sources (Stream Fax, telephone , etc) for clinical information are conveyed to the responsible Care Coordinator timely via the EMR to avoid adverse determinations and notifies same of all actual/potential denied days.
• Informs physicians, patients, families and other members of the health care team of discharge arrangements (time, transport mode, etc).
• Updates community partners with any changes in discharge plan.
• Documents final discharge plan as well as any important updates pertinent to the care plan in the electronic medical record, proof reads documents for errors and content, and assures Care Coordinator co-signs the notation.
• Manages mail from carriers and triages to correct department member.
• Manages equipment closet to maintain PAR levels of equipment.
• Maintains the integrity of the electronic referral system through completing documentation requirements, acknowledging/answering messages and discharging case when complete.
• Manages the department telephone lines to assure that customers receive verification that their calls have been received.
• Assists director when requested with procuring information for audits or performing special projects for the team.
• Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education Skills Experience

HS GRAD/EQUIVALENT

Other Information

Required: Requires a minimum high school diploma (some college preferred) and a minimum of two years experience in an acute care hospital or equivalent. Flexible, resourceful and creative in problem solving with ability to prioritize. Requires a high degree of prioritization skills. Act independently and offer suggestions and new ideas for improving performance and operations. Proofread and check documents for errors as well as the ability to use a keyboard to enter, retrieve, and transform data. Effectively communicate with physicians, patients, families and other members of the interdisciplinary team.

Minimum Experience: three years

Desired: Ability to work with spreadsheets a plus.

Working Conditions

Manual: Some manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity

Occupational: Little or no potential for occupational risk

Physical Effort: Medium to Heavy effort. May exert up to 35 lbs. force

Physical Environment: Generally pleasant working conditions

Company: Danbury Hospital

Org Unit: 152

Department: Care Coordination-DH

Exempt: No

Salary Range: $19.54 - $37.94 Hourly