Clinical Manager - Palliative Care - Illumia
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
About the Job
Illumia Health is a fast-growing part of Gentiva, an industry leader in hospice and palliative care. Our clinical teams serve as an extension of physicians’ care, partnering with them and other specialists to offer advanced illness management, a specialized form of high-touch palliative care designed to provide relief from the symptoms and stress of illness while improving quality of life wherever our patients call home. This flexible, collaborative approach is provided alongside curative treatments as an extra layer of physical, emotional, and social support. As a close-knit team bringing compassionate expertise to the unique journey of every patient, we proudly celebrate each other’s successes in an inclusive atmosphere of generous support and rewarding career growth.
Overview:
We are looking for a Clinical Manager to join our team. This position will directly report to the Director of AIM and is responsible for coordinating and managing all day to day business affairs and other clinical activities related to the administration of the Advanced Illness Management (AIM) and Palliative Care department.
- Ensures clinical care delivery goals are met and exceeded.
- Manages AIM Clinical Coordinators, AIM NPs and AIM RNs.
- Ensures scheduling, managing frequency adherence, clinical coordination, medical record maintenance function, and marketing functions are maintained for a team of patients and clinicians.
- Manages incoming calls from partners and patients.
- Manages Visit Freq compliance, scheduling PRN visits, post hospitalization follow up with patient/family-expediting discharge home with AIM communication with partners, schedule post hospitalization visits.
- Orders labs, DME, imaging.
- Coordinated results with NPs, enters telephone encounters in partner EMR, and enters routine visit med reconciliation in partner EMR.
- Ensures transitions to HSP referrals to CTC for care type.
- Assists in appropriate identification of HSP eligible pts.
- Identifies HH providers that can accept HH referrals from PCC.
- Identifies and communicates with local partner office for lab drop off.
- Active and unrestrictive RN license to practice in the state without any board action
- Registered Nurse with Home Health, Hospice and/or Palliative Care Experience preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing, Business Administration, or related field; or equivalent experience and knowledge in Health Care Operations required.
- Master’s degree in business or related field preferred.
- Minimum of 2 years health care administration/operations management required
- Must be able to work some nights/weekends on call.
- Certified in Hospice and Palliative Care - preferred
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Health Insurance, 401k Plan, Tuition Reimbursement, PTO
- Opportunity to participate in a Fleet Program
- Competitive Salaries
- Mileage Reimbursement
- Professional growth and development opportunities
- This is a safety-sensitive position
- Employee must meet minimum requirements to be eligible for benefits
- Where applicable, employee must meet stage specific requirements
- We are proud to be an EEO employer
- We maintain a drug-free workplace