Patient Outreach Specialist

Careers With Purpose

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland.

Facility: Remote SD (Central Time)
Location: Remote, SD
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Shift: Day
Job Schedule: Full time
Weekly Hours: 40.00
Salary Range: $17.50 - $23.00

Department Details

Join Our Team and Grow The Good!

Hours: 8:00am - 5:00pm | Monday - Friday

Benefits:

• Remote Role

• Competitive salary based off of experience

• Employee Wellness Program

• Family like Team Culture

• Career advancement opportunities

• Comprehensive benefits package

• Supportive work environment

Apply now and be part of something special! Together, let's Grow The Good in our community.

Job Summary

Greatly contributes to the success of integrated primary care ensuring overall quality patient care through prevention and wellness strategies. Supports a clinic by managing and coordinating care for their panel of patients. Monitor attribution, identify gaps in care, coordinate preventative services, and make outreach to patients or health care providers to ensure coordination of care. Ensure patient’s needs are being met by connecting to appropriate and available services, care team members, and resources to promote optimal health and wellbeing. Assists the clinic care team in managing and coordinating preventative screenings and wellness strategies for optimal health and wellbeing. Provides oversight to provider's patient panels by monitoring patient attribution contributing to integrity of the EMR, coordinating wellness screenings for specific specialties, supporting office visit, procedure, and scheduling screenings as appropriate, and managing the appropriate chronic disease registries, provider score cards, and result reconciliation. Promotes quality initiatives and improved patient outcomes. Participates in care for age related patients in all phases of preventative care and health maintenance. Functions within the administration pre-defined scope of practice guidelines.

Track and report quality measures and validate accuracy and integrity of patient records. Participates in the care of patients by collecting subjective and objective data from the patient or caregiver to identify potential barriers to care (SDoH) and refers to care management roles as appropriate. Communicates collected data and obtains appropriate orders to support the health care team and follows through on the patient's plan of care under the direction of the care team. Demonstrates computer literacy including using Microsoft Office products and electronic health record (EHR). High level of computer skills and ability to run registries. Demonstrates experience and professionalism in the following skills, but not limited to: customer service, critical thinking, multi-tasking, medical and medication terminology, and medical paperwork knowledge including insurance completion/submission requirements.

Qualifications

Post secondary education of one - two years, with an emphasis in healthcare or medical related field is preferred.

A minimum of one year work experience in ambulatory care, community outreach, patient or provider support, customer service, and/or various integrated care systems preferred.

Training in Motivational Interviewing and/or Mental Health First Aid preferred.

Background as a Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) is Required.

Benefits

Sanford offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, work/life balance benefits, and a generous time off package to maintain a healthy home-work balance. For more information about Total Rewards, visit .

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Sanford has a Drug Free Workplace Policy. An accepted offer will require a drug screen and pre-employment background screening as a condition of employment.

Req Number: R-0263927
Job Function: Care Coordination
Featured: No