Home Health Navigator
The posted compensation range of $32.98 - $47.82 /hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. CommonSpirit may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law.
Parkview Health at Home in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the Home Health Navigator holds the key to getting patients home sooner. Make a profound impact on their lives by ensuring they receive the right care, at the right time, in the right setting. Join our Care Coordination team and educate at-risk patients about home-based services, guiding their journey back home with confidence. As the Health at Home Navigator (HHN), your understanding of home-based services will be a beacon of hope. Collaborate with providers to ensure seamless and timely discharges home, elevating clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction.
Responsibilities
As the Health at Home Navigator (HHN), your understanding of home-based services will be a beacon of hope. Collaborate with providers to ensure seamless and timely discharges home, elevating clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction.Guide patients through post-acute care in the home.
- Identify those who benefit from home-based services, overcoming health care system barriers.
- Safeguard their well-being, reducing financial and clinical risks.
- Advocate for patients during multidisciplinary rounds, fostering holistic care.
- Communicate care destination info and home service candidates to ensure a seamless transition.
- Works with hospital partners to identify and prioritize patient populations who will benefit from CHCN services.
- Initiates care destination discussion and discharge process upon entrance to the system, identifying and engaging with patients for “why not home” informational visit.
- Guides patients through and around barriers within the healthcare system.
- Identifies opportunities to reduce both financial and clinical risks to patients and families who have been discharged from the hospital.
- Acts as an active participant in multidisciplinary rounds as a patient advocate to ensure efficient continuity of care throughout the continuum.
- Communicate pertinent care destination information and the home services candidates who were identified to the case manager and/or social worker.
- Maintains communication with patients, families, and health care providers to monitor patient satisfaction.
Qualifications
- Completion of an accredited registered nursing program.
- Current unrestricted license as a registered nurse in state(s) of practice.
- Three years clinical experience.
- Home Health experience required. Combination of Acute and PostAcute care delivery experience preferred.
- Must have excellent computer skills and ability to learn new systems.
- Must have strong organizational (time management) skills, strong interpersonal skills, the ability to handle multiple priorities with strong attention to detail.
- Knowledge of and practical use of good business English, spelling, arithmetic, practices and the ability to communicate effectively using written and verbal skills.
- Proficient in email communications and internet usage along with basic use of Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Knowledge of information technology to evaluate care effectiveness (care process, outcomes and cost).
Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.
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Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible employees may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time. For more information, please visit https://www.commonspirit.careers/benefits.
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