Discharge Planner

Anmed-Health; Anderson (SC); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

AnMed is a not-for-profit health system headquartered in Anderson, South Carolina, offering discharge planning services to ensure smooth patient transitions. This role collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, screens high-risk patients, and assists families with resources and financial counseling to improve post-discharge outcomes.

The position emphasizes patient advocacy, care coordination, and adherence to regulatory requirements while supporting community linkages and payer coordination.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or a four-year degree with related experience.
• Knowledgeable regarding community resources.
• Works in collaborative team approach.

Responsibilities

• Creates a process for communicating and collaborating with the inter-disciplinary care team.
• Participates in daily rounds, reviews assessments, sets goals, and prioritizes assignments.
• Screens patients at high risk for post-discharge needs.
• Serves as liaison for patients, families, nursing staff, and physicians.
• Educates patients and families on discharge planning and facilitates patient flow through the healthcare continuum.
• Arranges services in other medical facilities, other specialized institutions, or community agencies.
• Assists patients in applying for financial assistance, services, or counseling to the appropriate community agency or other source of help.
• Validates payer coverage and assures appropriate agencies are utilized.
• Maintains confidentiality and integrity of information in accordance with policies and regulations.
• Recommends process improvements and adapts to changes.

Skills

Community resources knowledge

Collaborative teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or related field

Job description

Hours per Week: 8:00am-4:30pm (rotating call PRN).

Located in the heart ofAnderson, South Carolina,AnMedis a dynamic, not-for-profit health system dedicated to delivering exceptional care with compassion, innovation, and integrity. At AnMed, ourmissionis simple yet powerful:

To provide exceptional and compassionate care to all we serve.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Creates a process for communicating and collaborating with members of the inter-disciplinary team involved in the care of patients.
• Participates with the unit team in daily rounds with the patients and reviews assessments, sets goals, and prioritizes assignments.
• Screens patients admitted and assesses those patients at high risk for post discharge needs.
• Serves as a liaison for patients/families, nursing staff, and physicians.
• They are the vital link for community, health, and social agencies that have previously provided services for the patient or will be providing services post discharge.
• Provides the Medicare Important Message to patients prior to discharge as appropriate. Educates the patient and family on the discharge planning process and facilitates patient flow through the healthcare continuum.
• Arranging services in other medical facilities, other specialized institutions, or community agencies.
• Assists the patient and/or family in applying for financial assistance, services, or counseling to the appropriate community agency or other source of help.
• Validates payer coverage and assures appropriate agencies are utilized.
• Maintains expertise of available resources and federal and state medical assistance programs.
• Screens for abuse, neglect, or exploitation and refer appropriately to state or community agencies in accordance with state and federal regulations.
• Collaborate with team members to identify and validate avoidable days.
• Maintains professional integrity and confidentiality of information in accordance with AnMed policies and procedures, state and federal requirements, and applicable laws.
• Adapts quickly to changes in criteria and/or focus and fulfills duties responsibly with little supervision.
• Able to work with variable patient populations.
• Stays abreast of departmental and organizational changes.
• Recommends process improvements of policies and procedures as necessary.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or a four-year degree with related experience.
• Knowledgeable regarding community resources.
• Works in collaborative team approach.

Preferred Qualifications

• Two years of hospital discharge planning.
• One to two years of experience in social services or patient care experience.
• Medical Insurance & Wellness Offerings.
• Free Financial Counseling.
• Work-Life Balance & Paid Time Off (PTO).
• Professional Development.
• For more information, please visit: anmed.org/careers/benefits

Varied benefits packages are available for positions with a 0.6 FTE or higher.

About AnMed

Founded in 1908, AnMed is an independent, not-for-profit health system serving Upstate South Carolina and northeast Georgia. It is licensed for 648 beds and anchored by AnMed Medical Center, a 495-bed acute-care hospital that’s earned the prestigious Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center since 2012. Also included are a heart and vascular center, a comprehensive cancer center, a maternity center, a behavioral health hospital, a rehabilitation hospital, and AnMed Integrated Therapy and AnMed Urgent Care locations. The AnMed Piedmont campus and its freestanding emergency department opened in 2025, and a new campus serving Clemson and Central is under construction and scheduled to open in 2027. Nearly 60 physician practices are also among service sites spread throughout the region. The system has 742 physicians on medical staff and more than 4,000 employees. Guided by core values of compassion, innovation, integrity, accountability and collaboration, AnMed was named one of the nation’s “Great Community Hospitals” by Becker’s Hospital Review. It’s also been named among the nation’s 165 top places to work in health care. It is one of three systems in the nation to earn the 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award from the American Hospital Association. Learn more at AnMed.org.