Job Description

Align yourself with an organization that has a reputation for excellence! Cedars Sinai was awarded the National Research Corporation?s Consumer Choice Award 19 years in a row for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles. We were also awarded the Advisory Board Company?s Workplace of the Year. This award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement. Join us, and discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America?s Best Hospitals!

**Eligible for a $5,000 Employee Referral Bonus 

What You Will Do in This Role:

A Registered Nurse Case Manager plans and coordinates care of the patient from pre-hospitalization through discharge. Works with all members of the health care team to ensure a collaborative approach is maintained in care and treatment of the patient. Reviews care and treatment for appropriateness against screening criteria and for infection control, quality services for continued stay and through discharge. Plans and coordinates home care services and needs. Coordinates the discharge planning function in conjunction with the social worker. Participates in education on and implementation of clinical guidelines and protocols. Provides or arranges patient teaching as appropriate. Works closely with social workers to integrate psychosocial management of patient/family needs.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs evaluation and or assessment within the established/communicated timeframe
• Documents appropriate reviews for assigned patients using utilization review tool.
• Provides telephonic review for identified contracted/private patients collaborates with on-site and/or outside reviewers.
• Keeps patients informed of progress and provides information related to disease progression.
• Collaborates with discharge planner to make orders and arranges for home care equipment, healthcare needs, and works with third-party payers to validate orders.
• Educates patients and families on all aspects of patients? hospitalization and continuing care.
• Assumes responsibility for timely completion of required case management reports for regulatory bodies, health plans, and insurance carriers.
• Interacts professionally with patient/family/caregivers and involves them in the formation of the plan of care and discharge needs.
• Coordinates with multidisciplinary team to ensure the identification of a safe and appropriate discharge plan for each assigned patient.
• Documentation meets current standards and policies.
• Maintains department cleanliness and safety.

Shift: 8:00AM - 4:30PM, Monday - Friday, ONSITE

Qualifications

Education:

• Associate's degree in Nursing (required).
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (preferred).

Certifications/Licenses:

• Current and valid California RN License (required).
• Certified Case Manager (CCM) or Accredited Case Manager (ACM) (preferred).

Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of nursing experience in an acute care setting (required).
• Minimum of 1year of Case Management experience (preferred).

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About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major teaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competi...tive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.

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