RN, Care Manager - Full-time, Dayshift

About the role

Adventist Health Lodi Memorial, a 190‑bed hospital with 17 medical offices, home care services, comprehensive cancer care and award‑winning services throughout Lodi and the surrounding areas, seeks a Case Management RN. Located in the heart of San Joaquin County, Lodi offers small‑town charm, vineyards, local restaurants and easy access to the Bay Area, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe and the Northern California coast. The role provides excellent patient care by assisting in the collaboration, development, implementation, revision and reporting of the case management program, acting as a liaison between patients, families, nurses, physicians, the multidisciplinary team and healthcare benefactors, consulting the healthcare team on specific patient items, coordinating a continuum of care from pre‑admission through post‑discharge, and ensuring patients and families move efficiently through hospitalization.

Responsibilities

• Leads the coordination of patient care with other disciplines within the care team, monitoring the appropriateness and timeliness of care.
• Ensures the interdisciplinary care plan is consistent with the patient’s clinical course, continuing care needs and covered services by monitoring diagnostic testing, treatments and procedures, and other aspects of patient care as appropriate for acute care.
• Discusses with physicians the appropriateness of resource utilization, consultations, treatment plan, estimated length of stay, and discharge plan.
• Focuses on complex patients, frequent emergency department utilizers, chronic pain patients, substance abuse patients and homeless patients.
• Collaborates with acute care case managers to ensure appropriateness of ongoing care.
• Coordinates the transfer of patients to tertiary centers, including the transfer of patient information required for continuity of ongoing treatment and services.
• Provides oversight and collects data required for regulatory and accreditation compliance.
• Manages frequent emergency department visitors by conducting a focus study review of previous and current admissions.
• Performs other job‑related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Education and Work Experience: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN): Preferred; Experience in a care management role: Preferred.

Licenses/Certifications: Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice: Required; Case management certification: Preferred.

Organizational Requirements: All associates must receive required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable (medical and religious exemptions may apply). Adventist Health participates in E‑Verify.

Pay

The estimated base pay for this position is $56.89 to $85.26 per hour. Additional individual compensation may be available through differentials, extra shift incentives, bonuses, etc.

Schedule

Full‑time regular position with a 10‑hour shift.