QMHA; Qualified Mental Health Associate Coordinator; Oregon

Overview

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Comagine Health is a national, nonprofit health care consulting firm. We work collaboratively with patients, providers, payers, and other stakeholders to reimagine, redesign and implement sustainable improvements in the health care system. As a trusted, neutral party, we work in our communities to address key health and health care delivery problems, drawing on expertise in quality improvement, care management, health information technology, analytics, and research.

Our goal is to support adults with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI) to live in the least-restrictive settings possible by ensuring that necessary and desired supports and services are in place. The Home and Community Based Coordinator facilitates timely and appropriate discharges and care transition support services through collaboration with providers, community service agencies, and other stakeholders.

The PCA Service Coordinator will be QMHA (Qualified Mental Health Associate) certified. Comagine Health partners with the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to provide statewide eligibility determination, service coordination, medical appropriateness reviews, and transition planning for individuals diagnosed with SPMI.

• Facilitates timely and appropriate discharges and care transition support services through collaboration with providers, community service agencies, and other stakeholders
• Conducts brief functional needs assessments, develops service plans, and provides service coordination
• Provides assistance and support to the Oregon Behavioral Health Support Program and other Comagine Health staff
• Maintains and distributes information about the availability of community resources
• Assists and supports Medicaid consumers during the care transition process
• Participates in discharge planning, service coordination, and implementation of the service plan
• Participates in and facilitates consumer and/or provider education
• Coordinates initiatives, tracks and monitors progress, and sets timelines for delegated assignments
• Coordinates, organizes, and maintains effective filing systems and performs data entry and data management
• Ensures all records and business-sensitive information are developed, distributed, handled, retrieved, and archived
• Develops and maintains documents, reports, templates, etc.
• Receives and processes requests for service from any source and coordinates with the team
• Performs data entry into systems (external and internal) for requests, services provided, authorizations, etc.

• Knowledge of the State of Oregon:
  Home and Community Based Services (preferred)
• Strong MS Office Suite proficiency and familiarity with database software programs
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Ability to organize and coordinate multiple simultaneous tasks in a team environment
• Makes decisions in a timely manner
• Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers
• Acts with customers in mind

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; equivalent combination of education and/or work experience in related field may be substituted
• QMHA Certification required
• 2+ years of clinical experience
• 1+ year of care coordination experience (preferred)

• Seniority level:
  Entry level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Health Care Provider
• Industries:
  Hospitals and Health Care