RN Hospice Program Liaison — Care Planning & Enrollment

MJHS; Town of Hempstead (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MJHS in New York seeks a program implementation professional to lead and coordinate hospice outreach projects, collaborating with the MJHS Institute and Hospice teams to promote goal setting, advance care planning, and enrollment discussions for medically ill patients.

The role involves implementing project protocols, documenting data, educating site staff, and ensuring timely referrals and hospice eligibility reviews in accordance with laws and agency policies.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for programmatic implementation of projects promoting goal setting, advance care planning and hospice enrollment in populations with advanced illness.
• Effectively collaborates with senior management to ensure that project implementation proceeds in alignment with goals and objectives.
• Implements protocols to identify patients appropriate for project.
• Communicates with physicians and other treatment team and collaborates with them in the implementation of the project.
• When patient is identified, determines eligibility for the project.
• Communicates with patients and families, and facilitates or engages in goal setting discussions, including advance care planning.
• Performs hospice eligibility review, including discussions as appropriate with the patient's physician and the hospice physician.
• When appropriate, engages in discussions with patients and families about hospice eligibility and enrollment.
• Assists with obtaining the Election of Benefits and in the completion of hospice admissions.
• Ensures timely and accurate implementation of procedures for distribution, tracking, return, turnover, and quality control of telehealth devices.
• Creates and implements patient/family educational materials to support the use of telehealth.
• Tracks and supports programmatic efforts to ensure that patients and families are appropriately identified and evaluated for telehealth, and that device triaging is appropriately performed.
• Assists and problem-solves so that timely and accurate implementation of specific telehealthenabled interventions occur, as determined by clinical need and directed by senior management.

Job description

MJHS in New York seeks a program implementation professional to lead and coordinate hospice outreach projects, collaborating with the MJHS Institute and Hospice teams to promote goal setting, advance care planning, and enrollment discussions for medically ill patients.

The role involves implementing project protocols, documenting data, educating site staff, and ensuring timely referrals and hospice eligibility reviews in accordance with laws and agency policies.