Rehab Coordinator

Part-time, dayshift position with no weekends or holidays. Learn about the job share process during the interview.

About the role

The Rehab Coordinator assesses patients to evaluate medical appropriateness for an inpatient rehabilitation facility. They work with the multi-disciplinary team in resource management, discharge planning, and care facilitation to coordinate the admission of appropriate patients into a UPMC inpatient rehab facility and/or skilled nursing facility. The role promotes the achievement of facility census requirements through direct contacts and appropriate referral sources.

Responsibilities

• Provide education about services, facilities, and resources of UPMC Rehabilitation Institute/skilled nursing facilities for patients, families, physicians, case managers, social workers, PNCCs, and others.
• Solicit feedback from UPMC rehabilitation and skilled nursing management, case management leadership, and social work service regarding rehabilitation resource and skilled nursing needs; make recommendations for service improvement.
• Review patient records and obtain relevant patient information, assessing for patient appropriateness and medical stability to facilitate timely admission and transfer to an appropriate UPMC inpatient rehab/skilled nursing facility.
• Conduct on-site assessments and identify potential rehabilitation/skilled nursing candidates for appropriateness and medical stability for admission to inpatient rehabilitation and skilled nursing programs within UPMC.
• Collaborate with the PM&R department to obtain necessary documentation to support inpatient rehab admission, facilitate discharge recommendations, and augment peer-to-peer review.
• Maintain accurate daily logs of patients referred and complete monthly status reports within the designated time frame.
• Attend meetings and designated training sessions to maintain current knowledge of all payer and regulatory requirements, UPMC Rehabilitation Institute/skilled nursing facility policies and procedures, and community resources.
• Ensure compliance with all payer and government regulations.
• Serve as a role model of excellent customer service.
• Initiate and participate in performance improvement initiatives.
• Assist in pre-admission care planning, identifying and recommending special equipment needs and precautions to assure a safe continuum of care, and making recommendations regarding cost-effective and appropriate admission orders.
• Complete documentation and paperwork related to patient admissions accurately and within an acceptable time frame.
• Establish and maintain UPMC rehabilitation/skilled nursing resource and education stations/locations; place and distribute brochures, posters, and other materials as needed.
• Distribute UPMC promotional items for marketing to internal and external referral sources.
• Travel daily to various healthcare entities; make sales and census development contacts while in the hospital and with other referral sources to achieve associated admission goals.
• Work with UPMC staff to facilitate a seamless transition for patients and families to inpatient acute rehabilitation.
• Address complex clinical and social situations efficiently to avoid unnecessary delays in discharge from acute care to inpatient rehab or other post-acute settings.
• Proactively identify barriers to discharge and work with care management, PM&R, and the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate discharge.
• Develop and maintain knowledge of inpatient rehabilitation/skilled nursing programs and services within UPMC.
• Coordinate and communicate patient information via telephone, fax, electronic means, or other mechanisms to an appropriate designated intake person at the accepting facility while maintaining confidentiality and privacy in compliance with HIPAA guidelines.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.
• BSN required or UPMC-approved certification in Rehab.
• 4 years of previous experience in a physical rehabilitation setting, skilled nursing setting, or other equivalent and/or acute care experience.

Qualifications

• Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse either in the state where the facility is located or in a state covered by a licensure compact agreement with the state where the facility is located.