Case Manager (RN/LIC)

Population Health RN Case Manager

Come and join the RMC Family! We have been in the community since 1935. Our mission is to provide comprehensive multi-specialty medical services in the greater Riverside region. Your passion, inspiration, and talents are invaluable to us and our mission to serve others. Our facility can provide a place for you to thrive and continue your professional development. Quality healthcare is our passion, improving lives is our reward. We are working to change lives and transform the delivery of healthcare. Riverside Medical Clinic is the best place to work, practice medicine, and receive care.

Summary: Under the general direction of the Director of Utilization Management, the Population Health RN Case Manager will coordinate team-based care to provide health services to individuals, through effective partnerships with patients, their caregivers/families, community resources, and their physician. This role focuses on improving the health status and care for individuals with chronic conditions; potentially complex medical, mental health, and psychosocial issues; and implementing the utilization review, clinical review plan approvals, discharge planning, and transitional case management processes. Duties will be performed in accordance with NCQA, federal, state, and local guidelines, organizational and departmental policies and procedures. Communicates with medical staff, other departments, and outside agencies while maintaining confidentiality.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Hours: Monday- Friday 8:00AM- 5:00PM Qualifications Education and/or Experience: Current licensure as a Registered Nurse required. Two or more years' experience in clinical or community health settings preferred. Previous Care Coordination, Case Management or Home Health experience preferred. Must possess strong clinical assessment and critical thinking skills necessary to develop a comprehensive plan of care appropriate to patients with complex medical, emotional and social needs. Has the ability to work in a high-volume caseload environment and deal effectively with rapidly changing priorities. Certificates, Licenses, AND Registrations: Current, active, non-restricted California Registered Nursing License. CCM Certification preferred.

Essential Functions: Essential functions are those tasks, duties and responsibilities that comprise the means of accomplishing the job's purpose and objectives. Essential functions are critical or fundamental to the performance of the job. They are the major functions for which the person in the job is held accountable. Note: (other duties may be assigned, deleted or changed at any time, at the discretion of management, formally, or informally, either verbally or in writing).

1. Provide a coordinated, strategic approach to identify new or manage an established chronically ill patient population
2. Stratify patient population according to risk to effectively and efficiently manage patients. Determine frequency of need for provider appointment and CCM encounters. Maximize use of qualified clinical staff within the care management team to provide appropriate non-face-to-face patient contact.
3. Collaborate with practice leaders to implement effective internal tracking systems for patients such as patient panels, annual wellness visit scheduling, and transition of care follow-up calls/timely provider visits, and CCM non-face-to-face monthly encounters.
4. Ensure all required elements are documented for CCM and related Annual Wellness Visits (AWV) component billing.
5. Collaborate with practice leaders to establish a method for assigning patients into a panel listing by provider that is routinely utilized for scheduling purposes and is continually monitored to balance supply and demand. Utilize empanelment method to ensure that preventive, chronic, and acute needs of all patients are met, including both high and low utilizers.
6. Ensure office staff has an effective internal tracking process to capture results, medication acquisition, missed appointments, and adherence to follow-up appointments.
7. Develop a process to track Annual Wellness Visits (AWV) scheduling and ensure that patient records are reviewed appropriate to identify care gaps prior to visit with the provider visit. Post reminders to secure that all co-morbidities are discussed and documented during AWV.
8. Participate in routine huddles with provider and care team. Identify scheduling opportunities, determine special needs for patients arriving that office/clinic day, identify patients who need care outside of their scheduled visit, patients overdue for AWV and those with missed appointments needing rescheduling. Ensure sharing of positive patient stories or compliments involving care team efforts.
9. Provide clinical health coaching interventions to motivate patients and families toward successful self-management of chronic disease. Effectively partner with provider practice team members to mobilize needed community resources for the patient and family.
10. In collaboration with the physician or qualified healthcare provider, develop a care plan based on mutual goals with the patient, family, the provider's emergency plan, medical summary, and ongoing action plan, as appropriate. Monitor patient adherence to plan of care and progress toward goals in a timely fashion, and facilitate changes as needed.
11. Facilitate patient access to appropriate medical and specialty providers as indicated by physician or qualified healthcare provider.
12. Complete health risk assessments; perform medication reconciliation; assess social determinants of health and coordinate services as needed.
13. Provide Case Management support for assigned caseload of Medicare ACO beneficiaries and HMO members.

This opportunity offers the following: Challenging and rewarding work environment Growth and Development Opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries Competitive Compensation About Universal Health Services One of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America's Largest Public Companies. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. EEO Statement All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.