Summary
Job Description:
RN Case Manager - Case Management
Full-time, M-F (rotation in weekends and holidays)
Job Description:
Manage a designated caseload to coordinate and complete timely assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of discharge plans and care transitions across the continuum of care. Ensure optimum utilization of the patient's and the Health System's resources and perform these duties within the requirements of CMS and other external review agencies. Manage, facilitate, and coordinate the necessary care activities and treatments, applying an approach to care delivery that is called the case management process. Manage the communication among the varied care providers and other essential parties internal and external to the health care organization. Identify patients who would benefit from case management services, and the activities of assessment, problem identification, care planning, care delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of the care provided, specifically for its relevance to the needs of the patient/family, and for the health care team’s ability to meet the desired outcomes and established goals. For those Case Manager RNs working with heart failure patients, the following applies: This position will solely focus on hospitalized patients being treated for heart failure. The purpose of disease-specific case management is patient education and optimal discharge planning with the goal of improving patient success at home thus preventing readmission and reducing mortality. This position will work closely with the Transition of Care Pharmacist, Heart Failure Clinic, and Remote Patient Monitoring program as well as nursing and medical providers.
Requirements:
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree from an accredited institution; a combination of education and clinical experience may be considered in lieu of bachelor’s degree.
Current unrestricted licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state of Kentucky required.
Three years of job-related experience required.
Case Management certification (ANCC, CCM or ACM-RN) or other approved Professional Certification preferred upon hire, required within two years of hire date.
Preferred Qualifications:
Previous Case Management experience preferred.
Benefits:
Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
Employee Assistance Program
Retirement plans with company match
Skills Required
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree from an accredited institution (or combination of education and clinical experience considered)
- Current unrestricted licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state of Kentucky
- Three years of job-related nursing experience
- Case Management certification (ANCC, CCM, or ACM-RN) or other approved professional certification — preferred at hire and required within two years of hire
- Previous case management experience
- Ability to work full-time schedule, Monday–Friday with rotation on weekends and holidays
What We Do
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.





