RN - Lead Care Manager Day Shift

RN - Lead Care Manager (Full-Time, Day Shift)

Adventist Health White Memorial Montebello, South Gate, CA, provides comprehensive healthcare within a 192‑bed hospital, wound care office, and surgical and laboratory services.

Employment Type:

Full Time

Provides excellent patient care by collaborating, developing, implementing, revising, and reporting the case management program. Acts as a liaison between the patient, family, nurses, physicians, multidisciplinary team, and healthcare benefactor to optimize outcomes, and serves as a consultant to the healthcare team on specific patient items.

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN):
  Preferred
• Experience in a care management role:
  Preferred

Licenses/Certifications

• Registered Nurse (RN) licensure in the state of practice:
  Required
• Case management certification:
  Preferred

• Leads the coordination of patient care with other disciplines within the care team, monitoring the appropriateness and timeliness of care.
• Ensures the interdisciplinary care plan is consistent with the patient’s clinical course, continuing care needs, and covered services by monitoring diagnostic testing, treatments, and procedures in acute care settings.
• Discusses with physicians the appropriateness of resource utilization, consultations, treatment plan, estimated length of stay, and discharge plan, focusing on complex patients, frequent ED utilizers, chronic pain patients, substance abuse patients, and homeless patients. Collaborates with acute care case managers to ensure appropriateness of ongoing care.
• Coordinates the transfer of patients to tertiary centers, including the transfer of patient information required for continuity of ongoing treatment and services.
• Provides oversight and collects data required for regulatory and accreditation compliance. Manages frequent ED visitors by conducting a focus study review of previous and current admissions.
• Performs other job‑related duties as assigned.

All associates must receive required vaccinations as a condition of employment and annually thereafter, where applicable, with medical and religious exemptions allowed.

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