Fort Wayne, IN, 46802, USA
51 days ago
Home Health Navigator
**Overview** **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). **Pay Range** $32.98 - $47.82 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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