Director of Care Coordination / MDS Coordinator RN

Job Summary

At Diversicare, we're looking for a passionate Director of Care Coordination to join our exceptional team. If you're dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our patients and residents, we invite you to apply.

Why Lead at Diversicare:

• Leadership Opportunity: Play a pivotal role in ensuring that our care resources are aligned with patient needs, benefits, and exceptional service.
• Ownership and Excellence: Embodiment of our culture of trust, respect, customer focus, compassion, diplomacy, appreciation, and strong communication skills.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Competitive benefits package including medical/dental/vision coverage, an excellent 401k plan, tuition reimbursement, vacation, holiday, and sick time, long and short-term disability, and more.
• Impactful Role: Responsible for coordinating the restorative nursing program, facilitating daily care coordination meetings, participating in and facilitating Engage/72 HR Admission meetings, managing the restorative nursing program, ensuring timely communication with patients and families regarding changes in condition and discharge planning, collaborating with the clinical team to develop and execute care plans, coordinating discharge planning and post-discharge communication, monitoring Quality Measures alongside the care coordination team, serving as a skilled care documentation specialist, ensuring accurate and timely completion of Medicare and Managed Care regulatory guidelines, reviewing Additional Documentation Requests (ADRs) to ensure all documents meet the request, and more.

Requirements

• Complete MDS Assessments
• Facilitate daily care coordination meetings to align care resources with patient needs and benefits
• Participate in and facilitate Engage/72 HR Admission meetings as part of the care management system
• Manage the restorative nursing program, integrating it with the activity department
• Ensure timely communication with patients and families regarding changes in condition and discharge planning
• Collaborate with the clinical team to develop and execute care plans
• Coordinate discharge planning and post-discharge communication, including home health and DME
• Monitor Quality Measures alongside the care coordination team
• Serve as a skilled care documentation specialist, ensuring accurate and timely completion of Medicare and Managed Care regulatory guidelines
• Review Additional Documentation Requests (ADRs) to ensure all documents meet the request

Qualifications

• Degree in nursing, licensed as Registered Nurse
• Experience in MDS
• Knowledge of healthcare reimbursement, utilization management, and discharge planning
• Experience providing strategic leadership, managing teams and leading projects required
• Ability to formulate and implement short and long term strategic plans
• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to lead a team to achieve desired outcomes of team
• Strong communication and organizational skills required
• Knowledge of PDPM requirements of insurers
• Understanding of regulatory requirements
• Previous case management experience preferred