ALF - Admissions Coordinator FT Days

Nursing Home and
Assisted Living Facilities

Admissions Coordinator

Full Time

Birmingham Green a person-centered care focus community located in Manassas, Virginia. We have been providing h igh-quality and affordable care for over 90 years .

Summary: The Admissions Coordinator: supervises and coordinates the admissions process for all prospective Willow Oaks residents with local jurisdictions, referral sources and in-house staff; interfaces with applicant’s eligibility workers, business office representative and responsible party to ensure Medicaid eligibility or financial solvency for those applicants who may be private pay; develops and implements marketing strategies for the facility in coordination with administration.

Responsible for supervision of receptionists and provides clerical support for the Willow Oaks facility.

Required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Candidate must demonstrate experience and ability towork well with people under crises with an emphasis on the geriatric and disabled population. Candidate must have working knowledge of Medicaid and Auxiliary Grant eligibility requirements andbasic medical terminology.

• Abilityto read and comprehend instructions, short correspondence, memos, procedure manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions.
• Abilityto complete routine reports and correspondence.
• Abilityto effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to residents, staff, families, and vendors.
• Abilityto add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Abilityto apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished inwritten, oral, and diagram form.
• Abilityto deal with problems involving several variables in standardized situations.
• Must possess excellent organizational, written, presentation, communication, andstrong customer relations skills.
• Mustbe detail oriented.
• Abilityto write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral ordiagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving variables in standardized situations.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Candidate must have at least one to two years combined experience in a long-term care facility asa License Practical Nurse (LPN) and as a case manager performing Level Iscreenings in a hospital setting and experience with the local Department of Social Services Long Term Care Unit.
• A four-year degree emphasizing social work or geriatrics, along with computer skills, is preferred but not required.
• High school diploma orgeneral education degree (GED).
• Knowledge of medical terminology preferred.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist resident and the irresponsible parties in completing all admission forms. Distribute to Unit and business office.
• Update face sheets as needed.
• Enter all admissions information into the Point Click Care system on the day of admission and provide the Unitwith an accurate face sheet.
• Update the Point Click Care system on all admissions and discharges, changes in contacts, insurance information, etc., ina timely fashion and generate new face sheets as needed.
• Keep accurate census records emphasizing all residents' bed availability and name, jurisdiction, and room number.
• Prepare census and summary of prospective NH and ALF residents for review at the weekly Admissions Committee meeting, including all relevant medical, psycho-social, and financial data of prospective admissions to the facility.
• Maintain all admissions filesin accordance with current licensure, Medicare, Medicaid, and Auxiliary Grant requirements.
• Update departments, via email,of incoming admissions, returns from the hospital, and in-house transfers in atimely fashion.
• May be asked to draft…