Nurse Coordinator RN, System Transfer Center

Summary of Job Function

• This position provides comprehensive care coordination for patients as assigned, including initiation and coordination of incoming and outgoing transfers for higher or lower level of care and/or specialized treatment modalities from outreach or network entities.
• This position secures required specialists and/or following physician s assessment and triage for appropriate level of care, financial assessment and referral.
• This position also carries out market strategies to obtain referral of clients from third party payers and physicians in liaison role.

Essential Job Responsibilities

• Evaluates the medical necessity and appropriateness of care, optimizing patient outcomes
• Assesses patient admissions and continued stay, utilizing standard criteria
• Facilitates patient throughput to a final destination facility with an ongoing focus on quality and efficiency
• Coordinates patient placement among multiple outreach and network facilities for admissions and transfers
• Coordinates safe patient transfers according to established operational processes and guidelines in place for all service lines at each facility
• Alerts staff at appropriate entity/agency of incoming/outgoing patients, scheduling bed/services, performs clinical and financial screening of referred patients and coordinates transportation
• Serves as a liaison with other departments, leaders and presiding physicians regarding process improvement opportunities for patient flow, patient transfers and efficacy of communication process
• Manages individual patients across the healthcare continuum to achieve the optimal clinical, financial, operational and satisfaction outcomes
• Serves as a liaison for the continuum of care including preadmission, hospitalization, depending on work assignment
• Maintains process for assessing current referral patterns for selected target areas by identifying physician referral patterns, health related community events, established physician practices and major gatekeepers in outreach and network communities
• Establishes and promotes collaborative relationships with physicians, payers and other members of the healthcare team, including non-RWJBH entities
• Seeks opportunities to increase the growth of business within the assigned communities, identifying and cultivating potential referral sources relevant to the population served
• Collects and communicates pertinent, timely information to payers
• The ability to accurately type at least 40 wpm, preferred in order to be successful in this role