Job Description

Overview:CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization the core values - Compassion Inclusion Integrity Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities you will feel immediately at home.Roseburg is located on Interstate 5 in Southern Oregon's scenic Douglas County. The community is nestled in a lush forested region known as the 100 Valleys of the Umpqua. In many places youxe2x80x99ll find it hard to maintain a healthy work-life/personal-life balance because the pace of one is indistinguishable from the other. Not here. Life never stops here but it slows to an easy welcome pace. A traffic jam means you missed the yellow and have to wait for the next green. A terrible parking space is the one across from the restaurant instead of in front of it. And the three words you may never hear are xe2x80x9cWow thatxe2x80x99s expensive.xe2x80x9d Easy is the best way to describe life here. Hard-to-beat works too.Responsibilities:Shift: 9am - 5:30pmCore Schedule: Monday - FridayJob Summary:The Nurse Care Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the progression of care and discharge planning for identified patients requiring these services.Essential Duties:

• Completes and documents discharge planning assessments. Reassess the patient as appropriate and updates the plan accordingly.
• Facilitates the development of a multidisciplinary discharge plan, engaging other relevant health team members, the patient and/or patient representative and post-acute care providers in accordance with the patientxe2x80x99s clinical or psychosocial needs, choices and available resources.
• Oversees and evaluates the implementation of the discharge plan.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team to ensure progression of care and appropriate utilization of inpatient resources using established evidence based guidelines/criteria.
• Collaborates with the healthcare team and post-acute service providers to ensure timely and smooth transitions to the most appropriate type and setting of post-acute services based upon patientxe2x80x99s clinical needs.
• Identifies risk for readmission and implements interventions to mitigate those risks for at least a 30-day period.

Qualifications:License/Certification:

• Current RN license issued by the State of Oregon required.
• BLS within 3 months of hire.
• Certified Case Manager, Accredited Case Manager or UM Certification preferred.

Experience:

• Two (2) years acute hospital experience. A Master's degree in Case Management or Nursing is accepted in lieu of 1 year of experience.

Education:

• Associates degree in Nursing. BSN or bachelors in related healthcare field preferred.

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