RN Care Coordinator

Job Description

Join one of the nation’s most comprehensive academic medical centers, University of Chicago Medicine as an RN Care Coordinator .

The RN Care Coordinator works collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure patient needs are met and care delivery is coordinated across the continuum, as well as appropriately reimbursed by payers as contracted. The RN Care Coordinator acts as a patient advocate, responding with empathy and respect to resolve and assist with patient / family concerns. In this role, you will utilize critical thinking skills to perform timely coordination to meet individual’s unique healthcare needs to promote positive outcomes. You will seek the expertise of primary care physicians, medical directors, inpatient case managers, specialists, social workers, and other disciples while working with patients, family members, and Chicagoland community and state agencies to coordinate care for patients with chronic diseases. Positive and professional efforts will be targeted to promote patient / provider satisfaction and to resolve patient care issues with the development of patient-centered care plans. Care plans are developed based on mutual goals for the patient, family, and the provider’s emergency plan, medical summary, and ongoing action plan as appropriate

Essential Job Functions :

• Works in conjunction with a developing high-performing team that incorporates leadership principles to assess, plan and initiate patient care.
• Maintains the ability to work in a high volume caseload, based on department expectations, and deal with rapid changing priorities.
• Demonstrates the ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for successful preventative care visits to reduce the severity of chronic disease and avoidable acute illness.
• Creates and manages a patient centered plan of care for acute and chronic conditions to promote health behaviors in all populations and ensure navigation assistance within the healthcare system.
• Identifies, plans, and facilitate strategies to provide appropriate clinical health coaching to support patients with self-management of their chronic disease and lifestyle changes to mitigate health risk.
• Identifies patients who require community support and facilitate a comprehensive approach to the social determinants of health to help patients overcome obstacles that keep them from receiving the care they need.
• Ensures that all critical elements of the care plan and transition of care plan have been communicated to physicians, multi-disciplinary teams, patients and family including expediting teaching needs.
• Completes tasks related to transition of care documents, quality care gaps, and various other quality and performance measure processes. Ensures adherence to Quality Standards and Participation in Quality Monitoring and Improvement.
• Assumes responsibility for own professional growth and attendance to in-service educational opportunities.
• Performs other duties as assigned and pays close attention to detail and accuracy of documentation of records along with proficient use of multiple databases and IT resources.
• Maintains ongoing member case load for regular outreach and management.

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Position Details

Why Join Us

We’ve been at the forefront of medicine since 1899. We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together : working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us. Bring your passion.

UChicago Medicine is growing; discover how you can be a part of this pursuit of excellence at :   UChicago Medicine Career Opportunities

UChicago Medicine is an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.

As a condition of employment, all employees are required to complete a pre-employment physical, background check, drug screening, and comply with the flu vaccination requirements prior to hire. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered for flu vaccination consistent with applicable law.

Compensation & Benefits Overview

UChicago Medicine is committed to transparency in compensation and benefits.  The pay range provided reflects the anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position.

The pay range is based on a full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) and is reflective of current market data, reviewed on an annual basis. Compensation offered at the time of hire will vary based on candidate qualifications and experience and organizational considerations, such as internal equity. Pay ranges for employees subject to Collective Bargaining Agreements are negotiated by the medical center and their respective union.

Review the full complement of benefit options for eligible roles at Benefits - UChicago Medicine .