Care Coordinator RN
About the role
As a RN Care Coordinator, you will be a central figure in patient care, seamlessly navigating the healthcare journey to achieve optimal outcomes and an exceptional patient experience. Every day, you will strategically assess, plan, and facilitate comprehensive care across the continuum, expertly advocating for patients while collaborating with physicians, nursing, departments, insurers, and post-acute providers to ensure timely, high-quality transitions. To be successful in this role, you will possess strong clinical acumen, exceptional communication and advocacy skills, and a strategic mindset, all driven by a passion for optimizing patient care across every touchpoint.
Responsibilities
- Completes and documents a discharge planning assessment on those patients identified by the designated screening process, or upon request. Reassess the patient as appropriate and update the plan accordingly.
- Facilitates the development of a multidisciplinary discharge plan, engaging other relevant health team members, the patient and/or patient representative and post-acute care providers in accordance with the patient's clinical or psychosocial needs, choices and available resources.
- Oversees and evaluates the implementation of the discharge plan.
- Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to ensure progression of care and appropriate utilization of inpatient resources using established evidence based guidelines/criteria.
- Collaborates with the healthcare team and post-acute service providers to ensure timely and smooth transitions to the most appropriate type and setting of post-acute services based upon patient's clinical needs.
- Identifies risk for readmission and implements interventions to mitigate those risks for at least a 30-day period.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing and minimum two (2) years of acute hospital clinical experience, upon hire; or Master's degree in other Case Management or Nursing field and 1 year of experience, upon hire
- Registered Nurse: TX, upon hire
- Basic Life Support - CPR, within 90 days
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing and at least five (5) years of nursing experience, upon hire
- Certified Case Manager, upon hire
- Accredited Case Manager, upon hire
Where You'll Work
St. Luke's Health–Lakeside Hospital in The Woodlands is a 30 bed facility dedicated to enhancing your health and well-being. Our facility is a collaboration between St. Luke's Health and a team of specialized physicians—focused on general and interventional cardiology, sports medicine, and orthopedics, including total joint replacement and spine care—in the North Houston community. As the only hospital in Montgomery County to offer sports medicine as a major service line, Lakeside Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient care as well as diagnostic imaging, including MRI, CT, and nuclear medicine. St. Luke's Health is a member of CommonSpirit.
Pay
$43.10 - $64.11 /hour
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