The role involves assessing, developing, facilitating, and monitoring patient transfers into and out of the hospital, requiring direct communication with physicians, admitting staff, and other healthcare professionals. Responsibilities also include screening admissions from a utilization review standpoint, collecting data, and ensuring timely clinical profile submissions to payers.
Requirements summary
Candidates must be a Registered Nurse and perform duties in a highly confidential manner, adhering to the hospital's mission and values. Preferred qualifications include experience in a Transfer Center, Utilization Review, and proficiency with Cerner, alongside excellent communication and organizational skills.
At Insight Hospital and Medical Center Chicago, we believe there is a better way to provide quality healthcare while achieving health equity. Our Chicago location looks forward to working closely with our neighbors and residents, to build a full-service community hospital in the Bronzeville area of Chicago; creating a comprehensive plan to increase services and meet community needs. With a growing team that is dedicated to delivering world-class service to everyone we meet, it is our mission to deliver the most compassionate, loving, expert, and impactful care in the world to our patients. Be a part of the Insight Chicago team that provides PATIENT CARE SECOND TO NONE! If you would like to be a part of our future team, please apply now! These duties are to be performed in a highly confidential manner, following the mission, values, and behaviors of Insight Hospital and Medical Center. Employees are further expected to provide a high quality of care, service, and kindness toward all patients, staff, physicians, volunteers, and guests.
GENERAL
SUMMARY: Seeking a full-time candidate to work as a transferring registered nurse hospital wide. Responsibilities include transferring patients in and out using a step-by-step process. The candidate will be responsible for evaluating and screening admissions from a utilization review standpoint, as well as collecting data and documenting in real time. This will include direct communication between physicians, admitting, registration, and other transferring facilities and healthcare professionals.
Qualifications
Registered Nurse
Transfer Center Experience (Preferred)
Utilization Review Experience (Preferred)
Full time 11am-7 pm
Experience with Cerner (Preferred)
Excellent communication and organizational skills
Job Description
Assesses, develops, facilitates, and monitors transfers into and out of the hospital through communication with all parties involved.
Communicates effectively and routinely with the physicians, admitting, medical staff, nursing staff, and any other third party.
Assist in facilitating patients with transportation via ambulance out of the facility.
Ability to decipher whether a patient meets criteria from a utilization review standpoint.
Benefits
Dental Insurance
Health Insurance
Vision Insurance
Basic Life Insurance
Short Term Disability
Long Term Disability
Paid Sick Time
Paid Vacation Time
Knowledgeable of criteria for Medicare, Medicaid, HMO and private insurance coverage.
Document discharge planning as an ongoing review.
Educates physicians and staff regarding appropriate level of care/utilization issues.
Responsible for evaluating and screening potential admissions to the facility when appropriate.
Ensuring clinical profiles are sent to the payers in a timely manner.
Identifies issues that may delay patients transfer and facilitates timely resolution of these issues and communicates the reasoning for the delay.
Follows through with finalizing all aspects of the transfer process including facilitating hand-off communication between sending and receiving patients.
Maintains timely and up to date documentation within Cerner. Ability to collect data and document in real time within Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet.
Uses appropriate channels of communication when initiating a change, reporting information, or addressing a concern.
Hospital and skilled nursing facility outreach.
Ability to be resourceful and self-sufficient.
Any other job duties, as assigned.
Benefits
Paid Sick Time - effective 90 days after employment
Paid Vacation Time - effective 90 days after employment
Health, vision & dental benefits - eligible at 30 days, following the 1st of the following month
Short and long-term disability and basic life insurance - after 30 days of employment
Insight Employees are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 as a condition of employment, subject to accommodation for medical or sincerely held religious beliefs. Insight is an equal opportunity employer and values workplace diversity!
