RN Care Manager

IOA is on the forefront of revolutionary healthcare models, reshaping the way people can age in place. Our innovative models transform lives, enhance communities, and save healthcare systems millions of dollars. Rather than focusing on archaic outdated design, we strive to consistently question the "status-quo" and create new and more innovative ways to help aging adults and adults with disabilities maintain their quality of life.

With over 23 programs, we offer multiple ways to aid seniors maintain their health, well-being, independence and participation in the community, fulfilling our mission.

IOA's Community Living Services division is an innovative and revolutionary healthcare model that allows seniors and adults with disabilities to live at home longer by transitioning them out of nursing homes and back into the community by partnering with health plans and Medi-Cal. This inventive, nationally recognized model is one of the most promising for seniors to date, transforming their lives by providing them with a higher quality and more independent life and saving millions of dollars for healthcare systems.

CLS is IOA's fastest growing division, expanding throughout California.

The HCBA Medi-Cal Waiver program within Community Living Services division provides care management services to persons at risk for nursing home or institutional placement. The care management services are provided by a multidisciplinary care team comprised of a nurse and social worker. The care management team coordinates Waiver and State Plan services (e.g., medical, behavioral health, In-Home Supportive Services, etc.), and arranges for other available long-term services and support available in the local community.

Care management and Waiver services are provided in the Participant's community-based residence. This residence can be privately owned, secured through a tenant-lease arrangement, or the residence of a Participant's family member.

The Care Manager/RN will conduct comprehensive nursing health assessments of participants’ medical needs, diagnose functional and cognitive abilities and environmental and social needs to determine which service(s) are required to meet participants’ needs and preferences in the community. This position requires driving throughout Riverside and San Bernardino County depending on your assigned area with occasional cases out of your region.

Other key duties and responsibilities include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Documenting assessment, case notes, care coordination, and utilization management within Med Compass, a population health management software.
• Working with the participants, their legal representatives, circle of support, and primary care physicians develop goals associated with the participant’s assessed needs, individual circumstances, and preferences.
• Develop a Plan of Treatment (POT) to mitigate risk and minimize disruptions in services identify when services identified in the POT are available through friends, family, and/or publicly funded programs implement the POT, which includes identifying service providers and community resources to help assure the timely, effective, and efficient mobilization and allocation of the services.
• Identify (and train, if necessary), backup caregivers who are willing and able to provide unpaid support when waiver service providers do not arrive when scheduled.
• Providing information, education, counseling, and advocacy to, and on behalf of participants.
• Establishing a care coordination schedule based on the needs and acuity of the participant as determined by their initial service needs assessment and subsequent reassessments.
• Monitoring the delivery of HCBA Waiver services to ensure…