Patient Navigator - Washington St

Sun River Health seeks a Full‑time Patient Navigator for the Washington St.

- Poughkeepsie, NY site.

• Consult with medical staff to link patients to services through the provision of ancillaries such as translation, transportation assistance and application assistance.
• Facilitates patient appointments within different departments of SRH and outside agencies. Follows SRH procedures for referring patients to different departments of SRH and outside agencies, utilizing SRH preferred provider lists.
• Assist patient in overcoming obstacles that would prevent them from receiving needed referrals.
• Responsible for facilitating patients to appropriate referred agencies, with specific focus on referrals to specialty care and public health insurance programs, as needed and appropriate; track progress in eCW and alert providers.
• Answer patient questions to clarify provider instructions, procedures and referral needs.
• Responsible for transmitting all necessary clinical information available to specialist for referral; obtains consultant reports; obtains consent for release of information.
• Review open referrals for upcoming medical appointments and provide to clinical team.

Minimum Education Requirement:
High school diploma / GED

Minimum Work‑Related

Experience:

0–2 years

Bilingual Spanish is preferred.

Job type:
Full time

Pay: $22.00 – $25.47 per hour