RN Clinical Liaison

When you join Choice Hospice, you become part of a team that is not only dedicated to their patients but to each other as well. Here, you will truly make a difference every day as you work alongside a supportive team. With a competitive benefits package, work-life balance, professional development, and an outstanding work environment, you will have everything you need to achieve success in your career. Bring your passion for patient care and you will build a career you love in this Nurse Navigator job.

Join the Choice Health at Home/Choice Hospice Team and apply for this Nurse Navigator opportunity today!

• Nurse Navigator Job Responsibilities
• Focused on reducing preventable admissions, readmissions, and preventable ED visits by supporting discharge planning to the next level of care and educating patients regarding the appropriate setting for care.
• Meet with patients in the hospital or nursing facility to discuss services and transition to home on either home health or hospice services.
• Facilitates communication and provides care coordination along the continuum of care including inpatient care team as well as the physician and community care team.
• Ensures appropriate management/stabilization of chronic medical conditions to prevent readmission and promote optimal outcomes.
• Act as a liaison for clinical appropriateness to our internal branch Directors on the complexity of patients discharging and validating that the needs can be serviced at home; input documentation into HCHB regarding the service needs, contact information of patient/family; and coordinate with other vendors as necessary.
• Coordinate home health and/or hospice services with physician as needed, which may include taking both written and verbal orders.
• Partner with Business Development Liaison in the field to provide clinical education to referral sources; work in conjunction with referral sources on protocols for our program needs.
• Develops relationships with and facilitates referrals to community resources including Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), Rehab, Long Term Acute Care (LTAC), Home Health, Hospice, Palliative Care, Transportation, Medication Asst., DME, and other community resources.
• Provide communication and continuing education to the referral sources.
• Completes activities pertaining to achieving and maintaining quality measures related to payer contracts as indicated.
• Exhibits behaviors and actions which create a high level of patient satisfaction, contributes to positive patient relations and reflects respect for a patient's rights, needs and confidentiality.