Case Manager - Case Management

You are the voice, the coordinor and the emphetic advoce of pients facing difficult situions. Your compassion for pients and families with acute and chronic health conditions knows no limits. You are committed to working with healthcare teams to ensure every pient receives the care, comfort and dignity they deserve. If this is how you define your role as a Case Manager , we invite you to consider this opportunity.

• Coordines and facilites interdisciplinary provision of comprehensive, pient-centered, quality health care throughout the continuum for pients with acute and chronic health conditions.
• Fosters achievement of optimal health care outcomes within accepted standards of care.
• Serves as an expert resource to the healthcare team regarding the continuum of care, efficient use of resources, Best Practice protocols, team-based care, quality indicors and improvements, and regulory requirements.
• Ensures a smooth transition of care between multiple health care environments with planned handoffs.
• Partners with pients and families in identifying health care issues and barriers to self-care in order to set priorities and engage in approprie interventions.
• Demonstres cultural agility and employs health literacy guidelines to provide educion regarding self-management stregies.
• Utilizes rapid quality improvement cycles to continuously monitor, evalue, measure, and report progress of interventions and outcomes.
• Paces the case to assure approprie and fiscally sound care coordinion across the continuum.

Educion:

• Academic degree in nursing (BSN or higher) preferred.

Experience:

• This position requires extensive knowledge of disease management to include diagnostics, trement and prognosis, community resources and healthcare reimbursement. Minimum 2 years clinical nursing experience required. Relevant experience in one or more of the following healthcare areas preferred:
  • Coordinion of community resources
  • Care management of diverse pient populions
  • Ambulory Care
• Knowledge of levels of care throughout the health care continuum to include; inpient, emergency care, rehab, home health, hospice, long term acute care, SNF, ICF, ALF with an overall understanding of utilizion management and resource management.
• Working knowledge of Care Management models across the continuum.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Knowledge of six core components of case management:
  • Psychosocial aspects
  • Healthcare reimbursement
  • Rehabilition
  • Healthcare management and delivery
  • Principles of practice i.e. CMS guidelines, Interqual criteria
  • Case Management concepts
• Excellent organizional skills
• Health litere oral and written communicion skills for effective interaction with all members of the pients health care team
• Knowledge of transitional planning to and from all venues
• Ability to determine and access approprie community resources
• Ability to engage pient/family in discussion of health care goals and decisions with tention to cultural and health literacy implicions
• Ability to adhere to and implement regulions in an effective manner. Must serve as a resource to all team members regarding regulory issues.
• Keyboard skills and ability to navige electronic systems applicable to job functions.

• Current applicable ste RN licensure.
• Case management certificion preferred.
• BLS for Healthcare Providers from the American Heart Associion required for all employees who perform this job in the ste of Oregon.

Our Legacy is good for health for Our People, Our Pients, Our Communities, Our World. Above all, we will do the right thing.

If you are passione about our mission and believe you can contribute to our team, we encourage you to applyeven if you don't meet every qualificion listed. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can grow and succeed.

Legacy Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discriminion and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion or creed, citizenship stus, sex, sexual oriention, gender identity, pregnancy, age, nional origin, disability stus, genetic informion, veteran stus, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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