Case Manager RN

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Elizabethtown (KY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Maternity and Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave (pets)

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement plans with company match

Job summary

Baptist Health seeks an RN Case Manager to oversee assigned caseloads, coordinate assessments, planning, and discharge planning, ensuring optimal resource use and outcomes. The role emphasizes heart failure patient care, collaboration with the Transition of Care Pharmacist, Heart Failure Clinic and RPM.

The position requires a Kentucky RN license, BSN (or equivalent experience), and 3 years in case management with certification within two years of hire.

Qualifications

• BSN degree or combination of education and clinical experience may be considered
• Current unrestricted RN license in Kentucky required
• Three years of job-related experience required
• Certification in Case Management (ANCC/ CCM/ ACM-RN) or other approved certification preferred and must be obtained within two years

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and complete timely assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of discharge plans and care transitions
• Coordinate communication among care providers internal and external to the health system
• Identify patients who would benefit from case management and manage activities across assessment, planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation
• Focus on heart failure inpatients for disease-specific case management and collaborate with Transition of Care Pharmacist, Heart Failure Clinic and Remote Patient Monitoring

Skills

Case management

Collaboration

Care coordination

Education

BSN degree

Case management certification (ANCC/ CCM/ ACM-RN) or approved certification

Job description

Summary Job Description

RN Case Manager - Case Management Full-time, M-F (rotation in weekends and holidays)

Job Description

Manage a designated caseload to coordinate and complete timely assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of discharge plans and care transitions across the continuum of care. Ensure optimum utilization of the patient's and the Health System's resources and perform these duties within the requirements of CMS and other external review agencies. Manage, facilitate, and coordinate the necessary care activities and treatments, applying an approach to care delivery that is called the case management process. Manage the communication among the varied care providers and other essential parties internal and external to the health care organization. Identify patients who would benefit from case management services, and the activities of assessment, problem identification, care planning, care delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of the care provided, specifically for its relevance to the needs of the patient/family, and for the health care team’s ability to meet the desired outcomes and established goals.

For those Case Manager RNs working with heart failure patients, the following applies: This position will solely focus on hospitalized patients being treated for heart failure. The purpose of disease‑specific case management is patient education and optimal discharge planning with the goal of improving patient success at home thus preventing readmission and reducing mortality. This position will work closely with the Transition of Care Pharmacist, Heart Failure Clinic, and Remote Patient Monitoring program as well as nursing and medical providers.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree from an accredited institution
• a combination of education and clinical experience may be considered in lieu of bachelor’s degree
• Current unrestricted licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state of Kentucky required
• Three years of job‑related experience required
• Case Management certification (ANCC, CCM or ACM‑RN) or other approved Professional Certification preferred upon hire, required within two years of hire date

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous Case Management experience preferred

Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410‑bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40‑bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug‑free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre‑employment drug testing.

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