LPN Patient Services Coordinator

Company: Kindred at Home
Location: Brunswick
Posted on: April 8, 2021

Job Description:

OUR CARE MATTERS.---- When you join the Kindred at Home team, you become part of something bigger. We are the nation---s leading provider of comprehensive home health, hospice, and non-medical home care services. Our team delivers compassionate, high-quality care to patients in their homes or places of residence, including non-medical personal assistance, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, hospice and palliative care. Now more than ever, people in your community need in-home healthcare. Our team helps to keep them safely at home, during moments that matter most to them.----Our caregivers focus on each unique patient to deliver the appropriate care and emotional support to our patients and their families. -- OUR EMPLOYEES MATTER. We believe a world-class patient experience is enabled by an exceptional employee experience.--And, committed to fostering an amazing employee experience at Kindred at Home.-- Our people are our greatest resource and asset, and we are committed to helping our employees thrive and fulfill their personal and professional goals. -- WE OFFER: * Competitive pay and 401k * Healthy Steps Wellness * Healthcare Plans * Employee Assistance Program * Centers of Excellence Program * Educational Assistance * Clinical ladder for professional credentialing and advancement * Leadership development * Talent focused Framework * Targeted personal and career development planning -- The--PATIENT SERVICES COORDINATOR-LPN--is directly responsible for scheduling visits and communicating with field staff, patients, physicians, etc. to maintain proper care coordination and continuity of care.-- The role also assists with day-to-day office and staff management -- * Manages schedules for all patients. Edits schedule for agents calling in sick, ensuring patients are reassigned timely.-- Updates agent unavailability in worker console. * Initiates infection control forms as needed, sends the HRD the completed ---Employee Infection Report--- to upload in the worker console. * Serves as back up during the lunch hour and other busy times including receiving calls from the field staff and assisting with weekly case conferences. Refers clinical questions to Branch Director as necessary. * Maintains the client hospitalization log, including entering coordination notes, and sending electronic log to all office, field, and sales staff. * Completes requested schedule as task appears on the action screen. Ensures staff are scheduled for skilled nurse/injection visits unless an aide supervisory visit is scheduled in conjunction with the injection visit.-- * Completes requested schedules for all add-ons and applicable orders: * Schedules discharge visit / OASIS Collection or recert visit following case conference when task appears on action screen. * Schedules TIF OASIS collection visits and deletes remaining schedule. * Reschedules declined or missed (if appropriate) visits. * Processes reassigned and rescheduled visits. * Ensures supervisory visits are scheduled. * Runs all scheduling reports including Agent Summary Report and Missed Visits Done on Paper Report. * Prepares weekly Agent Schedules. Performs initial review of weekly schedule for productivity / geographic issues and forwards schedule to Branch Director for approval prior to distribution to staff. * Verifies visit paper notes in scheduling console as needed. * Assists with internal transfer of patients between branch offices. * If clinical, receives lab reports and assesses for normality, fax a copy of lab to doctor, make a copy for the Case Manager, and route to Medical Records Department. Initiate Employee / Patient Infection Reports as necessary. * If clinical, may be required to perform patient visits and / or participate in on-call rotation.

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