Care Management LVN/LPN Full Time

Licensed Vocational Nurse / Medical Coordinator
REPORTS TO: Licensed Vocational Nurse Manage r
CLASSIFICATION: Non-Exempt, Full-Time

HOURLY RATE: $28.85 - $31.25

Tuesday-Saturday, 9:00AM - 5:30PM
Sunday-Thursday, 11:00AM - 7:30PM

Medical Coordinator/LVN
~ 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 bedside manners, are team players and have a “whatever it takes” attitude. The Recuperative Care Program provides quality and compassionate care and empowers those we serve.

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

Facilitate 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.
Provide advocacy on guest behalf when needed and in tandem with LVN manager instructions.
Ability to adequately manage caseload of a minimum 15 guests with flexibility to manage more to meet the needs of the facility (i.e., Tracking and completing guest information on existing database specific to progress and plan of care.
Must adhere to administrative hours to complete all required documentation.
Project a positive professional image and adhere to organizational dress code.
Must be flexible to accommodate schedule changes to meet the needs of the facility.
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.
LVN License or bachelor’s degree in nursing.
Current American Heart Association BLS (CPR/First Aid/AED)
Recent work experience with homeless patients (preferred).
Bilingual in Spanish (preferred).
Reliable transportation and if applicable, current auto insurance.
Computer proficiency in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, web browser and proficient typing skills.

Noise level is high in some guest care areas. Must be able to hear equipment alarms, overhead pages, and direct verbal communication.

National Health Foundation is addressing the social determinants of health using several research-proven strategies. We are targeting Food Access, with an emphasis on increasing the availability of health and fresh foods in under-resourced communities, Housing, with a focus on providing shelter and care for individuals who have been released from the hospital, the Built Environment, prioritizing the removal of the barriers to health in the Historic South Los Angeles community, and Education, with a focus on risk prevention and support for pregnant and parenting teens to complete their education. For further details on the programs, please visit our site at: