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Director - Care ManagementPiedmont Healthcare • Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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Director - Care Management

Piedmont Healthcare
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    Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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    Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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About

Overview:

Experience the advantages of real career change!

Join Piedmont to move your career in the right direction. Stay for the diverse teams youll love, a shared purpose, and schedule flexibility that frees you to live for what matters both in and outside of work. Youll feel valued, motivated to be your best, and recognized for your contributions to exceptional patient outcomes. Piedmont leaders are in your corner, invested in your success. Our wellness programs and comprehensive total benefits and rewards meet your needs today and help you plan for the future.

Responsibilities:

The Director Care Management is responsible for leading the hospital's Care Management department, defining and maintaining standards of practice for service delivery and organizational performance strategies consistent with PHC's Mission, Vision and Values, as well as those of the individual hospital.

What you will do

  • Provides performance improvement, operational, human resources and financial management of the Care Management department.
  • Ensures that Care Management services, which include case management and social work, are delivered in accordance with evidence-based guidelines, established standards of care practice and performance, hospital policies and procedures.
  • Pursue strategies and day-to-day operations that promote quality patient throughput in a resource/cost effective manner via effective care coordination and discharge planning.
  • Ensures that department operations and delivery align with PHC and industry quality standards.
  • Effectively promote Care Management practices as they relate to the use of software, e.g., InterQual, and IT systems, leveraging for information / data collection, analysis and reporting.
  • Monitor effectiveness by analyzing Average Length of Stay, Case Mix Index, avoidable days, denials, and other key metrics.
  • Reports on regular basis with Chief Financial Officer regarding Care Management department.
  • Implements and ensures collaborative working relationship with hospital and PHC leadership, the Utilization Management (UM) team and centralized functions, physicians, nursing, ancillary services and other key stakeholders.
  • Works closely with UM leadership and Revenue Cycle to ensure issues are addressed in a timely matter, and that functions & processes align.
  • Oversees monitoring of staff utilization based on workload, skill level, acuity and economic constraints.
  • Participates in Director and Leadership activities for hospital and PHC.
  • Actively participates in strategic planning.
  • Ensures a safe work environment for CM staff.
  • Ensures appropriate training and resources are available to all staff within budgetary constraints, and promotes professional growth of all staff.
  • Ensure that staff are consistently informed of departmental, hospital, PHC and general CM issues.
  • Delegates responsibilities to appropriate personnel and ensures completion in a timely and effective manner.
  • Notifies and consults with Risk Management as appropriate and per policy.
  • Provides leadership in recruitment and retention activities; performs or participates in screening, interviewing and selection of employees.
  • Implements Human Resources policies for performance plans, deployment, severance, out-placement, and other policies that support appropriate utilization of workforce resources.
  • Ensure that personnel and competency files are maintained in accordance with hospital, PHC, The Joint Commission and industry standards.
  • Performs outreach activities with community based provider practices and agencies to promote care coordination and support the CM departmental, hospital and PHC goals, as appropriate.
Qualifications:Education

  • Graduate from a nursing program Required or
  • Bachelors Degree in Social Work, Healthcare Administration, or other related field Required
  • Masters degree Additional certification or Masters in healthcare administration and / or finance Preferred
Work Experience
  • 7 years of case management or social work experience in an acute care setting, to include three (3) years of management experience in the acute setting Required
  • Required
  • Experience using InterQual or Milliman Required
Licenses and Certifications
  • Licensure or eligible for licensure, in the state of Georgia for one of the following: Upon Hire Required
  • RN - Registered Nurse - Georgia State Licensure and/or NLC/eNCL Multistate Licensure Unrestricted registered nurse (RN) license, or eligible for RN licensure, in the state of Georgia Required or
  • LMSW - Licensed Medical Social Worker - State Licensure current unrestricted licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) Required or
  • LCSW- License Clinical Social Worker licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Required
  • CCM - Certified Case Manager or Certified Care Management Preferred
Business Unit : Company Name: Piedmont Henry Hospital

  • Stockbridge, Georgia, United States

Languages

  • English
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