What You’ll Do
Responsibilities
The Nurse Care Manager will work with Suvida Healthcare’s multidisciplinary care team to provide high quality care for our high-risk patients. They will collaborate with their multidisciplinary neighborhood center care team to develop organization-wide approaches to problem solving, tracking, and managing complex cases and populations. This nurse will need to plan effectively in order to meet patient needs, identify social determinants of health, manage chronic conditions, and promote efficient utilization of resources.
The Nurse Care Manager will implement Suvida’s care pathways for patients with chronic conditions. They will also oversee transitions of care for patients to ensure safe transitions from acute to post-acute care, by coordinating timely and cost-effective care. The Nurse Care Manager will oversee highly complex and resource intense patients within their assigned care team. They will collaborate with all providers, care team, patients, caregivers, payers, community resources, and external providers to promote quality of care.
What You’ll Bring
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Oversees chronic care and transitions of care management of high-risk patients within their care teams and neighborhood centers
- Serves as a resource to the multidisciplinary team for the management of complex patients, including chronic care management assessments and care plans.
- Performs triage for patients via phone and addresses issues appropriately or forwards message to appropriate party for further interventions.
- Responsible for ensuring efficient, organized patient transitions from acute and post-acute setting to home or other transitional care facility.
- Perform comprehensive assessments for both physical, mental, and social risk factors that support individual patient needs while identifying and addressing barriers.
- Collaborates with medical staff, nursing staff, and ancillary staff to eliminate barriers to efficient delivery of care in the appropriate setting.
- Coordinates/facilitates patient care progression throughout the continuum.
- Collaborates with the physician and all members of the multidisciplinary team to facilitate care for designated patients; monitors the patient’s progress, intervening as necessary and appropriate to ensure that the plan of care and services provided are patient focused, high quality, efficient, and cost effective; facilitates the following on a timely basis: completion and reporting diagnostic testing, treatment plan and discharge plan; modification of plan of care, as necessary, to meet the ongoing needs of the patient; communicates re