Division Director, Care Management

Company: FRANCISCAN SYSTEM SERVICES
Location: Tacoma
Posted on: January 12, 2021

Job Description:

Overview:CHI Franciscan has exciting and rewarding careers with competitive salaries and benefits. We are a family of hospitals, health care services, and medical providers delivering compassionate care to people throughout the South Puget Sound. We are part of Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the country.Our mission is to deliver high quality care that meets our patients' medical needs while providing emotional and spiritual support to patients and their families. We believe this three-part approach - physical, emotional, and spiritual - is essential to healing the whole person. Come join our team!ResponsibilitiesWhat We Have To Offer:* Opportunity to partner in close collaborate with organizational leadership, physicians/providers and other division department and services lines for management services for our Care Management functions across multiple hospital sites in the Pacific Northwest* Faith-based culture with commitment to our Core Values of Reverence, Integrity, Compassion and Excellence where we value positive team players* Competitive wages, incentives and a generous employee benefits programAbout This Position:The Division Director for Care Management is responsible for planning, directing and evaluating the full scope of care management/coordination services (e. g. care management, care coordination, denial management, transition care, discharge planning, etc.). This role also provides strategic leadership in assessing, designing, developing and implementing programs and initiatives to form a comprehensive and cohesive model that provides access to care across of the continuum of health care services, achieves financial performance targets under risk-based payment models, and demonstrates superior clinical outcomes, performance and services levels.The position also focuses on addressing/alleviating current gaps in care management programs/resources/services in the community, maximizing effective utilization of resources, ensuring that post-acute work is appropriately executed, enhancing overall patient outcomes/service satisfaction of all identified customer groups and generating a competitive advantage for the organization.Day-To-Day Responsibilities:* Assists with developing and managing the operations/capital budgets for the department* Develops, implements and executes quality improvement initiatives to enhance/streamline current procedures/processes and take advantage of system-wide synergies* Oversees the centralized policies, standards, practice and education applicable to all PNW-division social workers and care managers and ensuring that overall objectives relating to consistency of standards and customer service are achieved* Establishes effective mechanisms to support medical/social management related to utilization of resources across the care continuum* Serves on a command center and virtual health steering committees* Supervises subordinate site-based management staff.QualificationsWhat We Are Looking For:* Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration or other discipline related to the duties of the position, graduation from an accredited school of nursing* 7+ years of progressively responsible related work experience that would demonstrate attainment of the requisite job knowledge/abilities, including five years in a leadership/management capacity.* Master's degree in Nursing, healthcare administration or related discipline that would demonstrate attainment of the requisite job knowledge/abilities is strongly preferred.* Current licensure as a Registered Nurse by the Washington State Board of Nursing.* Certified Care Manager by the National Academy of Certified Care Managers preferred.* Knowledge of effective care management models of patient care delivery is required (in both inpatient and outpatient settings), as well as a strong knowledge of processes of transition and discharge planning, denial management, utilization review and application of tools such as clinical pathways.CommonSpirit Health participates in E-verify.

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