Medical Coordinator / Licensed Vocational Nurse, Glendale, Ca

Medical Coordinator/LVN, Glendale, Ca

Reports To: Licensed Vocational Nurse Manager

Location: Glendale, Ca

Classification: Non-Exempt, Full-Time

Salary Range: $28.25 - $31.25 Hourly Rate

Available Work Shifts: Sunday - Thursday, 9:00AM-5:30PM, Tuesday - Saturday, 8:00AM-4:30PM

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Medical Coordinator / Licensed Vocational Nurse

The Medical Coordinator works in our Recuperative Care Program to provide post-hospital care, while creating a healthy, safe, and home like environment for guest quality of life. Medical Coordinators have excellent bed side manners, are team players and have a "whatever it takes" attitude. The Recuperative Care Program provides quality and compassionate care and empower those we serve.

Responsibilities and Initiatives

To help NHF meet its growth goals, the Medical Coordinator will:

• Facilitating hospital discharge process and patient assessment/engagement to program.
• Performing medical assessment intake and discharge plan of care.
• Maintaining current guest chart via existing CRM database daily.
• Conducting medical/wellness checks, medication regimen education, preventative measures and medical insurance follow up.
• Coordinating and providing linkages for guest's medical appointments and follow-up.
• Collaborate with Intake to ensure appropriate eligible to recuperative services and admission of required DMEs and Home Health needs.
• Participating in weekly internal and external case conferencing, board review team meetings, monthly staff meetings, trainings, and in-services.
• Provide advocacy on guest behalf when needed and in tandem with LVN manager instructions.
• Ability to adequately manage caseload of a minimum 15 guest with flexibility to manage 20 or more to meet the needs of the facility (i.e., vacancies, PTO etc.)
• Tracking and completing guest information on existing database specific to progress and plan of care.
• Performing administrative tasks such as charting, guest summaries and answering phones.
• Complete additional tasks/duties as required to meet the needs of the facility, not to impede primary responsibilities.
• Always follow NHF policies and procedures.