Manager of Admissions-Home Health
Arden Home Health & Hospice · Ridgeland, MS · 1 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
The Manager of Admissions is a clinical leadership role responsible for converting referrals into admissions across Arden's Mississippi home health branches. Positioned within clinical operations, this role owns the referral-to-admission process from the point a referral is received through a completed start of care.
Responsibilities
- Review referral documentation and physician orders.
- Verify authorization and payer eligibility.
- Confirm the patient meets Medicare home health eligibility criteria.
- Clear the referral for admission with the clinical direction the branch needs to proceed.
- Work closely with intake, scheduling, branch clinical leadership, and the business development team to remove barriers between referral and start of care.
- Supervise the Admission Nurse.
- Monitor admission productivity.
- Be directly accountable for referral conversion, admission volume, and census growth across the service area.