Inpatient Care Manager (RN)

Atlantic Health; Morristown (NJ); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantic Health is seeking a Case Manager to coordinate care for selected patient populations across the continuum of illness in Morristown, NJ. The role focuses on effective utilization of resources and monitoring outcomes with the interdisciplinary team.

The position involves assessing, planning, implementing, coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating services to maximize patient health. Responsibilities include care coordination, documentation in the EMR, and discharge planning to ensure

Qualifications

• Experience in case management or care coordination.
• Knowledge of discharge planning and care pathways.
• Strong documentation and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Manages, coordinates, and facilitates care through patient/family assessment and multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Ensures daily chart review, utilization reviews, discharge planning coordination, and thorough clinical documentation in the EMR.
• Provides interdisciplinary patient care rounds and identifies barriers to progress or discharge delays.
• Formulates and implements discharge plans and an efficient plan of care for safe, timely discharge.
• Collaborates with the healthcare team to manage the patient care plan.
• Performs variance tracking and outcome analysis to evaluate clinical pathways.
• Represents the department to hospital staff and community outreach.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Job description

Responsible for providing care and services of selected member populations across the continuum of illness. Ensures effective utilization and monitors health care resources. Manages the interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal clinical and resource outcomes. Works with the Supervisor/Manager of Case Management to assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor and evaluate services and outcomes to maximize the health of the patient.

Principal Accountabilities:

• 1. Manages, coordinates, and facilitates the care delivered to patients through patient/family assessment and multidisciplinary collaboration.
• 2. Ensures daily chart review, utilization reviews, coordination of discharge planning activities and comprehensive clinical documentation in the electronic medical record.
• 3. Provides interdisciplinary patient care rounds, and identifies and works to resolve quality of care issues, barriers to the progression of care and discharge delays.
• 4. Formulates, coordinates and implements discharge plans and an efficient plan of care to ensure safe, timely and effective discharge plan.
• 5. Works with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to manage and assist the patient care plan.
• 6. Performs variance tracking, outcome analysis and identifies problems to assess the effectiveness of the clinical pathways.
• 7. Servers as a representative of the department and for the hospital community outreach.
• 8. Performs other related duties as assigned.