RN- Hospice / Home Care Coordinator, Full Time, Days, Summit NJ

Reports to: Manager of Business Development and Admissions

 

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Performs Patient Assessments:

· Accurately assesses patient’s appropriateness for the Home Care or correct level of hospice care

· Acts as the face of the agency, meeting with patients and families to discuss the Hospice philosophy and benefit or Home Care regulations

· Confers with facility physicians, nurses, case managers and other providers to ensure the patient’s needs in the home are anticipated and appropriately addressed prior to discharge

· Ability to clearly and effectively communicate with Hospice medical director, staff, patients, caregivers, physicians and other departments within AHS

· Reviews appropriate documentation and confers with physician to obtain viable diagnosis for admission to service

· Participates in interdisciplinary discussion for appropriate level of care

· Completes referrals within Epic in a timely and accurate manner

· Communicates with CAC Manager and Assistant Managers on complex referrals

· Responsible for ordering required durable medical equipment for home hospice patients

· Knowledge of comfort care medications and ability to educate on same

Daily rounding with physicians and palliative team

Collaboration with physicians for appropriate discharge planning

 

2. Achieves growth goals:

· Demonstrates customer focused and results-driven behaviors

· Provides solutions to customer-identified problems

· Maintains awareness of customer/site changes and potential for new areas of growth

· Excellent customer service skills to meet the expectations of internal and external customers.

 

 

3. Utilizes self as resource:

· Maintains current knowledge of clinical issues through appropriate continuing education

· Maintains knowledge of regulatory and reimbursement issues, insurance contracts and negotiated rates

· Establishes self as resource for patients/families/physicians/discharge planning personnel/coworkers

· Confers with Referral Specialists on complex clinical referrals and provides oversite.

 

 

4. Demonstrates professional adaptability:

· Changes focus quickly and reprioritizes as necessary to provide continual flexibility

· Accepts new/additional assignments necessary to further agency goals.

 

5. Coding:

· Provides accurate and appropriately ordered ICD codes for patient diagnoses.

 

6. Performs other tasks as required.

Required:
1. Bachelor's degree in Nursing
2. Valid NJ driver's license with clean record

Preferred:
1. A completed apprenticeship or experience in a similar role.

At Atlantic Health System, our promise to our communities is that anyone who enters anyone of our facilities, receive the highest quality care delivered at the right time, at the right place, and at the right cost. That commitment is also echoed in the respect, development and opportunities we give to our more than 18,000 team members. Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, we are one of the leading non-profit health care systems in the state, and committed to creating a Trusted Network of Caring®. Our facilities and sites of care include:

• Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ
• Overlook Medical Center, Summit NJ
• Newton Medical Center, Newton, NJ
• Chilton Medical Center, Pompton Plains, NJ
• Hackettstown Medical Center, Hackettstown, NJ
• Goryeb Children's Hospital, Morriston NJ
• Atlantic Rehabilitation
• Atlantic Home Care and Hospice

We also have more than 900 community-based healthcare providers affiliated through Atlantic Medical Group.  We are part of Atlantic Accountable Care Organization, one of the largest ACOs in the nation, and are a member of AllSpire Health Partners.
We receiver awards and recognitions for what we provide to our patients, team members and communities.  Below are just a few of our accolades:

• 100 Best Companies to Work For ® and FORTUNE® magazine (13 years in a row)
• Best Places to Work in Healthcare - Modern Healthcare
• 150 Top Places to work in Healthcare - Becker's Healthcare
• 100 Accountable Care Organizations to Know - Becker's Hospital Review
• Best Employers for Workers over 50 - AARP
• Gold-Level "Well Workplace": Wellness Council of America (WELCOA)
• CEO Cancer Gold Standard ™
• One of the 100 Best Workplaces for Millennials" Great Place to Work® and FORTUNE® maga