Director, Care Coordination

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The Director of Care Coordination will be based at Wellstar Columbia County Medical Center in Grovetown, Georgia and will report to the Chief Medical Officer. This leader will also work closely with other members of the senior leadership team to build strategies that are aligned with current performance and hospital goals and vision for the care management program, timely patient throughput, appropriate care and utilization, safe disposition planning as well as utilizing data and analytics to drive departmental performance.

The director will be responsible for adherence to the system Utilization Management Plan and care coordination policies and procedures, Care Coordination standards of care, CMS and other Payer regulations, Joint Commission regulations, and will ensure that the system strategic vision is fully integrated into the culture of the care coordination program. Will align closely with physician and share performance data with individual physicians and service lines.

The Director of Case Management is responsible for the day‐to‐day operations for all case management activities across the hospital, including utilization management, safe transitions planning, financial performance related to payer authorization processes, avoidable day tracking and reporting, medical necessity, ongoing quality, productivity and overall efficiency for case management processes. This director will ensure that the system standardize care coordination processes are implemented and followed always.

As part of the role, the director will collaborate with physicians and other departmental leaders and staff to ensure that barriers to CM outcomes such as length of stay (LOS), avoidable days, readmissions, payer denials and other CM related outcomes are address timely with attention given to identifying root causes and driving performance improvement initiatives that ensures performance is aligned to targeted goals.

Must be able to manage, interpret and share data.

Other duties of the director include creating and enhancing current tools, methodologies, recruiting practices, and personnel development processes. Plays a key role in the retention, professional development and performance review of staff, including mentoring, coaching, performance appraisals and recruiting as well as departmental budgets. The director participates in committees with the hospital medical staff and other leaders to address and solve issues that drive variation from goals.

Is also responsible for collaborating with other key departments that drive throughput delays and work to jointly eliminate those barriers.

• Along with senior leadership, collaborate on departmental and system wide objectives and goals.
• Co‑chairs the Utilization Management Committee with the VPMO and serves as representative on internal and external committees impacting care coordination and other key hospital/system committees.
• Participates in and attends Well Star Care Coordination Leadership meetings on a minimum of monthly basis.
• Recommends final approval for policies and procedures as well as operational structure for the department.
• Develop, revise and maintain education materials.
• Responsible for patient throughput and medically necessity for all patient admissions and outpatient observation and outpatient cases that occupy a hospital bed.
• Accountability for state transitions planning, timely discharges and appropriate placements for post‑acute care services.
• Responsible for all hospital social services functions.
• Partners with the system to develop education modules to facilitate advanced competencies of…