Registered Nurse-Case Manager-Days

Taleo; Beaumont (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Comprehensive Benefit Plan – Medical, 

Bonus Potential

Job summary

Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas is seeking an RN Case Manager-Care Management to manage a designated patient caseload and collaborate with physicians and the interdisciplinary team to improve clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Responsibilities include proactive case screening, discharge planning, coordinating care with the health team, communicating the plan to patients and payors, and ensuring timely discharge while preventing delays and readmissions.

Qualifications

• RN license required or eligible.
• Experience coordinating care in a hospital setting preferred.
• Strong communication with patients, families, and care team.

Responsibilities

• Screen caseload to identify at-risk patients post-discharge.
• Coordinate discharge planning with physicians and interdisciplinary team.
• Communicate plan of care and discharge date to patient/family and payors.
• Collaborate with care team to ensure timely discharge and avoid delays.
• Provide timely information for payors and ensure proper documentation.

Skills

Care coordination

Discharge planning

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse license

Job description

We are looking to add top talent to our Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas team.

Join us in performing Sacred Work!

Competitive benefits are offered including:

Matched Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Comprehensive Benefit Plan – Medical, Dental, Vision and Much More!

Bonus Potential

Summary/Objective

The RN Case Manager-Care Management is accountable for a designated patient caseload, while supporting the physicians and interdisciplinary team in facilitating patient care, with the underlying objective of enhancing the quality of clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction; as well as, managing the cost of care and providing timely and accurate information to payors.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Proactively screens all cases on assigned caseload to identify cases at risk, using approved screening tool, for adverse health consequences post-discharge without adequate discharge planning while following established reporting procedures.
• Actively monitors and documents information pertinent to care coordination and the progress of patients on assigned caseload; proactively intervening and ensuring tasks are completed accurately, and in a timely manner to promote communication and prevent delays in treatment and discharge of patients.
• Communicates all elements critical to the plan of care, including the expected date of discharge to the patient/family and members of the healthcare team; as well as, referring cases with complex issues or barriers to discharge to the Case Management Director or for peer review as appropriate.
• Collaborates and communicates with multidisciplinary team in all phases of discharge planning process, including initial patient assessment, planning, implementation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and teaching and ongoing evaluation. Ensures/maintains plan consensus from patient/family, physician and payor.
• Initiates the implementation of the discharge plan prior to discharge to avoid delays in discharge and/ or avoidable readmissions to the hospital; evaluating post discharge needs on assigned cases and develops a discharge plan in collaboration with the patient and support person(s) based on needs indicated by evaluation.

Delivers regulatory notices including the Important Message, HINNs, and Observation Notice within the timeframe designated to appropriate patients on assigned caseload.