Careers
Contact Us| Title: | Director Case Management |
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| ID: | 1194 |
| Location: | Nashville, Arkansas |
| Department: | Case Management |
This position is an integral role in providing case management/utilization review, and discharge planning. It is a full-time, 72 hours per pay period position.
Responsibilities
- Provides case management/utilization review and discharge planning to assure that the patient progresses through the continuum of care and is discharged to the least restrictive environment.
- Provides ongoing support and expertise through comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation, and overall evaluation of individual patient needs.
- Coordinate the integration of social services/case management functions into the patient care, discharge, and home planning processes with other hospital departments, external service organizations, agencies, and healthcare facilities.
- Communicate with physicians at regular intervals throughout hospitalization and develops an effective care plan to maintain. appropriate cost, case and desired patient outcomes.
- Facilitates interdisciplinary patient care conferences to review treatment goals, optimize resource utilization, and identified post-hospital needs.
- Assess patient progress throughout hospital stay, while serving as patient and family advocate.
- Collaborate with clinical staff in the development and execution of the plan of care, and achievement of goals.
- Supervises the duties and schedule of the Utilization Review Nurse.
- BSN preferred, ASN required.
- 3+ years experience in clinical nursing experience.
- Effective written and verbal communication and critical thinking skills.
- Readily exhibits leadership skills.
- Obtain Case Manager certification within 5 years of entry into the position.
Howard Memorial Hospital will maintain your application for as long as legally required. Upon submitting your application, we will take every effort to review it for proper consideration. If your qualifications meet the current needs of Howard Memorial Hospital, our Human Resources Department will contact you.
Howard Memorial Hospital is committed to providing a safe, efficient, and productive work environment for all employees. To help ensure a safe and healthful working environment, each applicant to whom an offer of employment has been made will be required as a condition of employment to undergo a substance test. Applicants will be asked to read the policy and sign a Pre-Employment Offer and Employee Consent to Drug Screening.
If an open position is not currently available, we will maintain your application for six months and consider it for future openings. If you meet the qualifications of the position and are selected for an interview, Human Resources or the Hiring Manager will phone or e-mail you. Thank you for your interest in Howard Memorial Hospital.
