Rehab Coordinator

A Rehab Coordinator assesses patients to evaluate for medical appropriateness to an inpatient rehabilitation facility. The Rehab Coordinator works with the multi-disciplinary team in resource management, discharge planning, and care facilitation to coordinate the admission of appropriate patients into a UPMC inpatient rehab facility and/or skilled nursing facility. Promotes the achievement of facility census requirements through direct contacts and appropriate referral sources.

Responsibilities:

• Provide education about services, facilities and resources of UPMC Rehabilitation Institute/skilled nursing facilities for patients and their families; physicians, case managers, social workers, PNCC's and others.
• Solicit feedback from UPMC rehabilitation and skilled nursing management, case management leadership and social work service regarding rehabilitation resource and skilled nursing needs and make recommendations for service improvement.
• Review patient records and obtain any relevant patient information, assessing for patient appropriateness and medical stability to facilitate a timely admission and transfer to an appropriate UPMC IPR/skilled nursing facility.
• Conduct on site assessments and identify potential rehabilitation/skilled nursing candidates for appropriateness and medical stability for admission to the inpatient rehabilitation and skilled nursing programs within UPMC.
• Work in collaboration with PM&R department as necessary to obtain necessary documentation to support inpatient rehab admission, to facilitate discharge recommendations and to augment peer to peer review.
• Maintain accurate daily logs of patients referred and complete monthly status report within designated time frame.
• Attend meetings and designated training sessions in order to maintain current knowledge of all payer and regulatory requirements, UPMC Rehabilitation Institute/skilled nursing facility policies and procedures, community resources. 

• Ensures compliance with all payer and government regulations. 

   

• Initiate and participate in performance improvement initiatives.
• Assist in preadmission care planning. 
• Identifying and recommending special equipment needs and precautions to assure safe continuum of care and making recommendations regarding cost effective and appropriate admission orders.
• Complete documentation and paperwork related to patient admissions accurately and within acceptable time frame.

• Establish and maintain UPMC rehabilitation/skilled nursing resource and education stations/locations. 

   

• Make sales and census development contacts while in the hospital and with other referral sources and achieve associated admission goals.
• Work with UPMC staff to facilitate a seamless transition for patients and families to inpatient acute rehabilitation. 
• Addresses complex clinical and social situations efficiently in order to avoid unnecessary delays in discharge from acute care to inpatient rehab or other post-acute setting. 
• Proactively identifies barriers to discharge and works with care management, PMR and multi-disciplinary team to facilitate discharge.

• Develop and maintain knowledge of the inpatient rehabilitation/skilled nursing programs and services within UPMC.