Rehab Admissions Navigator

St.-David; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Paid time off

401(k) match

Education support

Discounts

Job summary

St. Davids Rehabilitation Hospital in Austin, TX seeks a Clinical Rehab Liaison to coordinate between internal and external referral sources and rehab operations.

You will build relationships with case managers, payors, and other sources to ensure appropriate patient placement through clinical screenings and collaboration with the Rehab Medical Director. You will also manage intake and pre-admission processes, document compliance, and provide information to the Rehab Medical Director.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Act as a coordinator between internal and external referral sources and acute inpatient rehab operations.
• Establish relationships with case managers, payors, and other referral sources.
• Ensure appropriate patient placement through clinical screenings and assessments in collaboration with hospital case management and the rehab Medical Director.
• Review patients daily until there is strong clinical evidence to request a physician order for a formal pre-admission assessment for acute inpatient rehab for their assigned case manager.
• Assist with and coordinate the intake and pre-admission screening process.
• Accurately document evidence of the patient’s compliance with the established rehabilitation admission criteria on the pre-admissions screening form in a timely and legible manner.
• Provide information to the Rehab Medical Director and respond to any question or request for additional information the Rehab Medical Director might require to make an appropriate admission decision.
• Perform on-site and off-site review of patients in designated facilities to assist Case Management in identifying patients that could clinically benefit from rehab services.
• Perform on-site and off-site clinical evaluation to assist Rehab Medical Director in determining appropriateness of patient for admission.
• Provide information related to inpatient rehab and program features to Case Management to share with patients and family members.
• Communicate to patients, expectations and requirements for participation, upon admission to the rehab program, and offers each patient and family a tour of the rehab unit.
• Secure information relating to patient’s resources and benefits.
• Demonstrate clinical knowledge of rehab admission criteria, leading to appropriate identification of qualified rehab patients, and advise referral sources on inpatient rehab criteria.
• Establish and maintains effective working relationships with all referral sources.
• Complete face-to-face, in-service educational contacts with physicians, case managers, other interdisciplinary members and other professionals, and serve as educational resource to patients, family members and caregivers.
• Participate in market analysis, data analysis and development and implementation of business plans for the rehab unit, and contributes to the development and maintenance of referral source information such as brochures, flyers, referrals and information kit and other outreach tools.
• Assist in developing the annual strategic plan for the rehab unit/hospital, to include visible community outreach program and raise community awareness of services available.
• Ensure referral sources receive appropriate and timely follow-up communications regarding their patients and hospital programs.
• Develop system that ensures calls are appropriately handled 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Job description

St. Davids Rehabilitation Hospital in Austin, TX seeks a Clinical Rehab Liaison to coordinate between internal and external referral sources and rehab operations.

You will build relationships with case managers, payors, and other sources to ensure appropriate patient placement through clinical screenings and collaboration with the Rehab Medical Director. You will also manage intake and pre-admission processes, document compliance, and provide information to the Rehab Medical Director.