RN, Care Manager, Part-Time

About Us

Adventist Health Lodi Memorial, located in the heart of San Joaquin County, has been a leading healthcare provider since 1952. We comprise a 190-bed hospital, 17 medical offices, home care services, comprehensive cancer care, and a wide range of award-winning services throughout Lodi and surrounding areas. Lodi is known for its small-town charm, extensive vineyards, and local restaurants and bakeries. The community's appeal is enhanced by its proximity to major metropolitan cities in the Bay Area and Sacramento, as well as easy access to Lake Tahoe and the Northern California coast.

Adventist Health is a faith-based, nonprofit, integrated health system serving over 100 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii with more than 440 sites of care, including 27 acute-care facilities. Our team of over 38,000 employees, physicians, and volunteers is driven by the mission to inspire health, wholeness, and hope.

About the Role

Provides excellent patient care by assisting in the collaboration, development, implementation, revision, and reporting of the case management program. Acts as a liaison between the patient, family, nurse, physicians, multidisciplinary team, and patient's healthcare benefactor to optimize outcomes. Serves as a consultant to the healthcare team on specific patient items. Coordinates a continuum of care for a defined population of patients from pre-admission through post-discharge.

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, 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, focusing 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

• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice: Required
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN): Preferred
• Experience in a care management role: Preferred
• Case management certification: Preferred

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. Base pay is only a portion of the total rewards package, and a comprehensive benefits program is available for qualifying positions.

Schedule

• Part-time regular
• Shift Length: 10 Hours