Avalon Care Center Tacoma is seeking an Nurse Liaison  to join our team! 

 

$100,000 - $120,000

 

Full-time

 

Use your nursing skills to serve others in our fantastic facility.

Avalon offers great pay with career growth opportunities including tuition reimbursement and career advancement courses.

Develop lasting relationships with your patients and the staff in our building. The valuable work we do makes a difference in the lives of our patients and their families.

 

Full-time are eligible for:

401K Medical, Dental & Vision FSA & Dependent Care FSA Life Insurance AD&D, Long Term Disability, Short Term Disability Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity Legal Benefits, Identity Theft Protection Pet Insurance and Auto/Home Insurance.

 

**Placement within the wage range for this position is determined by years of experience, qualifications, and demonstrated ability to perform the essential functions. LPN experience is credited when being placed in wage range**

  Responsibilities

Admissions Process

Receive leads from providers, specialty physicians, county offices, facilities, or any customer source and convert appropriate inquiries to admissions. Coordinate inquiries from all hospitals in the market. In conjunction with facility requirements/abilities, clinically access patients to determine if the patient meets admission criteria. Make contact with potential inquiries as a representative of Avalon Health Care. Review charts, and assist with any questions from the case management team, referral source and/or family members. Obtain the necessary information (medical and financial) to qualify patients for admission. Facilitate patient placement based on clinical services needed, bed availability, patient/family preference, geographic location, etc. Troubleshoot areas of Admission, Public Relations, pre-certification and physician follow-up in conjunction with facility. Conducts needed assessments. Sales & Marketing Manage referral sources and relationships in accordance with the facilities census development plan. Conduct daily visits to referring hospitals. Build and maintain relationships with Discharge Planners, Case Managers, Physicians and all other potential referral sources. Identify new and potential referral sources. Identify potential Physician relationships. Develop them through marketing, partnership, follow up. Maintains thorough knowledge of the market in general and the specific products, services and acuity trends within the market. Identify options for partnering with other providers in the market to increase facility census. Coordinates community education and events for hospitals, physicians and other referral sources. Coordinate tours at facilities for new referral sources families and follow through as appropriate. Follow up with referral sources with case studies and updates using the “Marketing the Avalon Way” reporting system. Develop quarterly marketing plan, updated monthly. Submit weekly reports/goals as required.   Qualifications Education / Experience Associate and/or Bachelor’s Degree in health care field. Preferably Nursing. SNF or Hospital discharge planning experience preferred Preferably 1-3 years of clinical nursing experience with at least two years in long term care and two years of successful experience in administration, consultation or involvement in the survey process. Customer service, sales and marketing experience preferred. Licenses/Certification Licensed Nurse in good standing, currently licensed by state in which the services are provided (preferred but not required).