Chronic Care Management-LPN
2 years ago
Buffalo
Job Description Mobile Healthcare Partners is seeking skilled Chronic Care Management Nurses (LVN, LPN, RN) Our office is located in Buffalo, New York but work can be on a Remote / Work From Home basis Mobile Healthcare Partners is a home-based primary care practice that specializes in geriatric healthcare, serving New York State. This role will be providing telephonic Care Management for patients throughout the health system under the direction of a patient’s provider. The CCM nurse utilizes nursing process to evaluate patient needs over the telephone and provide guidance and education to patients, adhering to organizational policies, procedures and guidelines. Provides high risk patients with chronic disease management and liaises between the patient, patient’s family or caregiver, provider, provider’s office, hospital, home care agency etc. This position is telephonic care coordination as directed by the patients provider. Responsibilities: • Cooperatively develop and integrate patient centered provider care plan and goals with the client/family and other providers, • Work collaboratively with team members to provide outreach and engagement with the patient, • Provide patient education to assist with self-management, • Identify gaps or barriers in treatment plans, • Coordinate care enrolled patients including scheduling appointments, • Coordinate referrals, • Coordinate community resources as needed (ie: home health, DME etc), • Educate members on disease processes, • Encourage members to make healthy lifestyle changes, • Actively maintain assigned caseload of patients, • Make outbound calls to assess members current health status, • Receive and respond to telephone calls from patients. Collecting health data and providing medical guidance under the direction of the patients provider, • Document calls according to established guidelines, • Connects patient’s care team together with updated information as received, • Participation in education and in-service programs, • Performs on-call for region that you are assigned, • Unrestricted and current license NYS License to practice as a LVN/LPN/RN, • 3 years of experience within Care Management setting or Case Coordinator either in the homecare, inpatient, physician practice or in-home case management setting, • Strong working knowledge of chronic disease states including chronic kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure and basic medical management of these states, • Ability to identify problems and recommend solutions, • Experience working with Electronic Health Record (EHR), • 60 words per minute typing Work From Home setting Monday through Friday Day schedules Benefits after 30 days Company paid Short Term Disability 6 Paid Holidays 3 weeks of Time Off Mobile Healthcare Partners, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.