Maternity Care Navigator: Guide Patients Through Postpartum

Diana Health; Beaumont (TX); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health, dental & vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid Time Off

Paid Sick Time

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Diana Health is seeking a Care Navigator to provide comprehensive support to women during their care journey, ensuring they have the resources needed throughout the process. This role requires empathy, communication skills, and a proactive approach to patient engagement.

Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree and at least two years of experience in a customer-facing role. Benefits include competitive compensation, health insurance, 401(k) match, and paid parental leave.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience in a customer-facing role, ideally in healthcare.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills required.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while supporting patients.

Responsibilities

• Act as the first line of communication for new and prospective patients.
• Learn about patients’ individual needs and guide them to care.
• Maintain strong communication with obstetrics patients throughout their care.

Skills

Excellent communication

Interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Strong computer skills

Knowledge of health insurance policies

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

EMR systems

Job description

About Diana Health

Diana Health is a high-growth network of modern women's health practices. We are on a mission to set a new standard of care that inspires, empowers, and supports women to live healthier, more fulfilling lives. We partner directly with hospitals and align incentives across stakeholders using integrated care teams, smart technology, and a designed care experience that is good for patients and good for providers. The result is an individualized, comprehensive care program that puts women in the driver’s seat of their own health and provides them with the information and compassionate care they need to reach their health goals.

About Diana Health

Diana Health is a high-growth network of modern women's health practices. We are on a mission to set a new standard of care that inspires, empowers, and supports women to live healthier, more fulfilling lives. We partner directly with hospitals and align incentives across stakeholders using integrated care teams, smart technology, and a designed care experience that is good for patients and good for providers. The result is an individualized, comprehensive care program that puts women in the driver’s seat of their own health and provides them with the information and compassionate care they need to reach their health goals.

We are an interdisciplinary team joined together by our shared commitment to transform women’s health. Come join us!

Role Description

The Care Navigator is a unique role, and one of the many ways we seek to improve upon the traditional maternity care experience. You will guide patients across the entire care journey, ensuring they have the support and resources they need from before they even set foot in the office through to the postpartum period. This is a time in a woman’s life that can include emotional highs and lows and changing needs--the ideal candidate is highly empathetic with excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in order to support a diverse group of patients.

What You’ll Do

Act as the first line of communication for new and prospective patients:

Respond to incoming phone calls of prospective patients, nurturing leads leveraging the CRM

Learn about patients individual needs and introduce them to the Diana Health care program

Verify patients insurance benefits and help patients navigate their benefits as they sign up for care

Introduce and document payment plan options

Ensure patients have a strong experience by welcoming them to the practice and documenting key preferences in EMR

Maintain strong communication with obstetrics patients over the course of their care, including proactive outreach at key milestones:

Engage new patients before their first appointment, after their first appointment, and after their third appointment as they begin their care journey

Support patients to develop and fine tune their care plans and to connect to resources, as needed

Engage postpartum patients based on clinical protocols and connect patients to relevant resources and providers

Provide additional support to those patients identified as benefiting from higher touch:

• Additional outreach and connection to community resources for those with SDoH
• Additional outreach and check-ins to those with medical risks
• Contribute to the evolution of Diana Health’s product as we build our prenatal and postpartum care program
• Systematically collect feedback from patient interactions to contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
• Communicate regularly with clinical and administrative leaders in the practice to provide feedback on client needs and preferences
• Help to identify and implement changes as necessary
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of relevant experience in a customer-facing role, ideally in healthcare
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Strong computer skills; familiarity with EMRs is preferred but not required
• Knowledge of health insurance policies, including copays, coinsurances, referrals, verifications of insurance
  
  

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health; dental & vision, with an HSA/FSA option
• 401(k) with employer match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Sick Time
• Paid Parental Leave
  
  

Diana Health Culture

• Having a growth mindset and striving for continuous learning and improvement
• Positive, can do / how can I help attitude
• Empathy for our team and our clients
• Taking ownership and driving to results
• Being scrappy and resourceful