Career Center
Great Falls, Montana
Newark, Delaware
Posted: 12-Nov-23
Location: Irving, Texas
Salary: Open
Categories:
Internal Number: 16414601
Summary:
The Program Director of Care Management is responsible for providing consultative, educational development, and support services to the acute care facilities and affiliated networks in areas of clinical excellence; case management, and improved operational efficiencies. In addition, this position will serve as a content expert for the development of the clinical information system to tie the clinical delivery to the business and operations of CHRISTUS Health entities. As part of the transition of the clinical process improvements to demonstrated improved financial outcomes, this position will have knowledge of revenue cycle process improvement. This incumbent must have recent expertise as a Director of Care Management and be able to work as an Interim Director at a facility if needed.
- Provide the skills and expertise to assist in the design and execution of the clinical continuum case management for all patients, including special populations
- Develop, implement and support a case management program with the functional integration of pre-admission screening, advance staff education, provide impatient and outpatient case management including social services, discharge planning and placement; and tailor utilization management targeted to general and high risk populations Provide consultative services in the areas of clinical process redesign development for facilities, regions, system leaders and clinical staff
- Serve as a liaison between existing dedicated resources at the local level to promote shared learnings and best practice identification and communication
- Maintain awareness of industry changes and serve as a resource for sharing national best practice models
- Actively contribute to the development of a technology driven clinical decision support system that can monitor medical resource utilization and flag learning opportunities for improved care management
- Assist with the design and execution of case management for special needs populations (i.e.. chronically ill, frail elderly, and managed Medicaid)
- Assist in the design/development of standardized reports relative to acute episodes of care by physician, payer, diagnosis, MS-DRG, MDC, utilization, as well as variable direct and indirect costing methods to provide practical tools for providers to monitor medical resource consumption and assist in maximizing clinical quality and financial outcomes
- Develop educational programs and tracking systems to maintain gains made with care management interventions, to include documentation and coding initiatives
- Develop and implement an ongoing assessment/reassessment process for operational efficiencies
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree of Science in Nursing
Work Type:
Full Time
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