Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Post Acute Transition Specialist for our Hospice and Home Health Team!
This position acts as a coordinator between internal and external referral sources and CarePartners Post-Acute Service Lines. The Post-Acute Transitions Specialist is responsible for establishing relationships, providing education, and promoting collaboration with hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, ambulatory and inpatient care managers, physicians, payors, MHP CIN, and other community referral source. The Post-Acute Transitions Specialist will ensure appropriate patient placement through screenings and assessments in collaboration with SNF Discharge Planners & Inter- Disciplinary Teams, Ambulatory Care Managers, MHP Care Managers, BPCI Transitions Care Coordinator, practice referral coordinators, physicians, and CarePartners Post-Acute service line team members.
The Post-Acute Transitions Specialist works closely with Post-Acute providers, SNF’s, and physician practices in the clinically integrated network (CIN), hospital care managers, Mission Palliative Care team, etc. to ensure a responsive and smooth flowing referral and admission process for CarePartners Post-Acute programs. They will collaborate with health system and community colleagues to insure quality driven, best practice across the continuum by utilizing essential activities of care management in direct patient contact. They will maximize positive financial outcomes for designated patient populations, intervening at key points in the disease process by facilitating appropriate Post-Acute placement, participating in Goals of Care/Advanced Care Planning dialogue and effective transitions to prevent readmissions, and lower total cost of care thru the appropriate utilization of Post-Acute services.
Position Requirements:
Minimum requirements:
1. Licensed Professional in a clinical health care specialty (i.e. RN, Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, or Speech Therapist).
2. Current state licensure in clinical practice area or eligible for state license transfer.
3. Graduate of an accredited school in clinical specialty.
4. Minimum 2 years recent clinical care experience.
5. Professional appearance.
6. Effective verbal, written and persuasive communication skills.
7. Computer and keyboarding skills (25 wpm minimum).
8. Ability to work with others to ensure quality patient care.
9. Organization and time management skills.
10. Strong problem solving skills.
11. Interpersonal skills.
12. Continuous focus on excellence in work environment.
Preferred requirements:
1. BCLS certification (AHA)
2. Pass CARE tool credentialing, when available via UDS
3. If RN, CRRN preferred and / or achieve within 2 years of accepting position.
4. Clinical experience in the care and management of the Inpatient Rehabilitation patient.
5. Experience as a clinical liaison coordinating admissions for inpatient rehabilitation preferred.
6. Persistent and persuasive when faced with challenging circumstances.
7. Ability to analyze data related to referral opportunities.
8. Skilled strategy planning and goal setting.
9. Ability to build strong relationships with referral sources while being engaging, accountable and responsive.
10. Self-directed with problem solving capability.
11. Ability to navigate a medical record for determination of medical necessity for an IRF admission.
12. Ability to analyze clinical data looking at diagnosis and comorbidities that will demonstrate the patients’ complete medical picture.
13. Experienced in speaking in medical terminology with physicians, case managers, therapists about disease states, comorbidities, and patient care.
CarePartners, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
CarePartners Health Services, a member of Mission Health, an operating division of HCA Healthcare, is a healthcare organization serving western North Carolina and offering a full continuum of post-acute care. Located in Asheville, North Carolina, it’s services include a Rehabilitation Hospital, Home Health, Outpatient Rehabilitation, Hospice, Palliative Care, Private Duty, PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) and Orthotics & Prosthetics. With more than 1,200 colleagues and 400 volunteers, CarePartners Health Services is dedicated to helping people of western North Carolina live full and productive lives, despite illness, injury, disability or issues related to aging.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
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HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Post Acute Transition Specialist Hospice opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!
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