Highland Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a critical thinking that thrives in a fast paced detail oriented environment.
The Highland Hospital Placement Coordinator position supplies essential organizational support for the necessary hospital flow that is required to discharge patients so that we can serve patients with acute care needs. The Placement Coordinator provides expert support to the social work staff regarding the placement process for skilled nursing rehabilitation and long term care. This includes (but is not limited to) knowledge of medical barriers, insurance regulations, financial and legal issues that could potentially hold-up timely discharge of patients. This position facilitates the distribution of referrals, proactively identifies barriers for placement in order to reduce length of stay, collaborates/educates social work team regarding placement process, and coordinates efforts regarding insurance authorizations and appeals. They are also responsible to prompt regarding timely lab testing for successful discharge. The Placement Coordinator supplies facilities with additional information and negotiates with facilitates for bed offers. The Placement Coordinator is the “face” and represents Highland Hospital and requires excellent interpersonal and customer services skills. This is a time-sensitive, multi-tasking job that requires the ability to take inputs from phone, pager, email, and fax. This position is also responsible to collect data on all placements and formulates monthly statistics
Salary Range:
$22.88- $34.33 an hour
The referenced pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation for this job. Individual annual salaries/hourly rates will be set within the job’s compensation range, and will be determined by considering factors including, but not limited to, market data, education, experience, qualifications, expertise of the individual, and internal equity considerations.

15076BR

Rochester

Professional

Full-Time

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