RN / REGISTERED NURSE - CARE COORDINATOR

• Assists in the management of patients with chronic diseases following established protocols and systems for disease management in collaboration with providers.
• Promotes positive behavioral changes to facilitate medication compliance and reduction in tertiary care utilization.
• Assist patients with self-management of chronic disease process including patient goal setting, teach-back method of learning, and promotion of patient advocacy that extends into the wider community.
• Assists patients and families with coordination of healthcare services including outside organizations.
• Act as a client advocate partnering with Community Health Workers (CHWs) to provide assistance with social determinant of health (SDoH) needs; initiating referrals to community-based organizations as needed.
• Develop and evaluate a patient plan of care and determine areas of improvement and education.
• Monitors patient's healthcare pathway to ensure adherence, removes obstacles and identifies progress toward desired care outcomes; intervenes to overcome deviations in the expected plan of care; reviews the care plan with patients in conjunction with providers; interacts with the multi-disciplinary care team to negotiate and expedite scheduling and completion of tests, procedures, and consults.
• Collaborates with Care Coordination leadership to participate in and implement process improvement and quality improvement initiatives to maximize patient care outcomes.
• Engages physician and practice team in proactive patient management by addressing medical and behavioral health care needs, follow-up, and referrals.
• Utilizes high risk patient data registries, hospital and payer reports, and other reports to identify and outreach targeted populations benefiting from care coordination programs.
• Offers and coordinates care for complex patients in the practice setting or home as necessary to reinforce disease management education utilizing teach back methods; assist with completion of health care proxy, advanced care planning, or community resource navigation.
• Contributes to comprehensive care plans in collaboration with providers and the multidisciplinary health care team based on evidence-based best practices for chronic illness care.
• Participates in developing patient-centered care plans that address problems /barriers/goals and executes action plans relevant to obstacles in chronic condition management.
• Provides referrals to appropriate community resources and support programs and closes the loop by ensuring that patients can access and follow through on these referrals.
• Collaborates with Population Health Care Coordination leadership to engage and educate providers and teams on newest trends and optimal work patterns to improve the quality of patient care coordination.
• Reviews high-cost patients with the multidisciplinary care team to understand drivers of cost, current treatment plan, future course and prognosis.
• Ensure advance directives and appropriate referrals are addressed such as palliative/hospice and makes recommendations for cost reduction.
• Improves quality by assisting with closing care gaps.
• Reduces healthcare costs by preventing avoidable hospital admissions/readmissions and unnecessary utilization of healthcare resources.
• Assess and address social determinant of health barriers in collaboration with Care Coordination Community Health Workers (CHWs).
• Promotes patient self-management of chronic conditions.
• Identify and submit referrals to address patient behavioral health needs.
• Care coordinate high-risk patients with chronic conditions and high risk stratification scores utilizing payer, claims, PRAPARE tool, demographic, and co-morbidities data including but not limited to COPD, CHF, Diabetes, HTN, and increased acute care and ED utilization.
• Ensure optimized primary care and specialty provider visit scheduling for managing chronic conditions.
• Employee/Team/Provider Engagement.
• Demonstrate effective communication, collaboration, and team-based mentality.
• Demonstrate ability to build relationships with patients.
• Participate in patient huddles/team meetings.
• Maintain patient care standards following established Beebe Healthcare Population Health Care Coordination health education and information guidelines.
• Organize work and utilize time efficiently based on knowledge and procedures.
• Assume responsibility for his/her own professional development and for sharing knowledge with others.
• Responsible for knowledge and compliance with all Beebe Healthcare policies and procedures.
• Maintain professional manner and appearance.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Minimum of two (2) years of work in the healthcare field BLS (CPR & AED) certification issued by the American Heart Association (AHA)
• Previous nursing experience in a Clinic/Outpatient environment
• Previous work using Electronic Health Records (EMR)
• Bilingual English/Spanish language skills are a definite plus
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, and Outlook)

• Active RN License - State of Delaware or Compact State 
• BLS - Basic Life Support (AHA) 

• Graduate of an accredited nursing school 

About Beebe Healthcare

Beebe Healthcare serves the Sussex County community with a medical center located in beautiful, historic Lewes, Delaware, and convenient outpatient locations throughout the county. Founded in 1916 by two physician brothers, Drs. James Beebe and Richard C. Beebe, the medical center in Lewes is a 210-licensed-bed, not-for-profit seaside community hospital. Beebe's specialized service lines include cardiac and vascular, surgical services, oncology, women's health, and orthopaedic services. Beebe offers an array of inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and diagnostic services. Beebe's five satellite campuses offer imaging, physical rehabilitation, and lab services, as well as walk-in care centers. In addition, Beebe offers Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine and Diabetes Management & Medical Nutrition Therapy. With a mission to serve the community, Beebe also offers many free screenings and outreach programs through its Population Health Department; and advanced medical care for those who are recuperating at home through Beebe Home Care Services. Beebe is also training the next generation of nurses through the Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing, located behind the Medical Cente ... r in Lewes. Beebe's Medical Staff has grown tremendously since the early 1990s. Employed physicians through Beebe Medical Group and our affiliated physicians on Beebe's Medical Staff now serve patients from Milford to Millville in specialties including cardiac surgery, dermatology, endocrinology, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, pediatric neurology, and surgical oncology. Beebe is proud to offer quality care, close to home for the residents and visitors of Sussex County.

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