Clinical Pre-Admissions Coordinator - Part Time

Overview

Clinical Pre-Admissions Coordinator - Part Time, Riverview Medical Center, Borough of Red Bank, New Jersey

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. Hackensack Meridian Health helps patients live better, healthier lives and supports one another to succeed. The Clinical Pre-Admission Coordinator is responsible for patient assessment for acute rehabilitation based on established criteria of the acute rehabilitation center and CMS regulations. The primary role is to perform preadmission screenings, which is a detailed and comprehensive clinical assessment of the patient's condition, need for rehabilitation therapy and medical treatment to be provided in the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) setting.

• Appropriately assesses the patient s medical and functional status, the risk for clinical and rehabilitation complications, and other aspects of the patient s condition to determine whether the patient meets the requirements for IRF admission.
• Develops the detailed reasoning and justification for the IRF admission, including documentation of: prior level of function, expected level of improvement, expected length of time to achieve improvement, risk for clinical complications, treatments needed (OT, PT, SLP, or prosthetics/orthotics), expected frequency and duration of treatment, anticipated discharge destination, any post-discharge treatments, and other information relevant to care needs.
• Conducts preadmission screening through medical record review and in-person visits with the patient/family and the clinical staff involved in care, or by telephone from an outside referring source.
• Reviews the findings with the rehabilitation physician for concurrence.
• Completes ongoing reassessments of patients and updates all documentation for the preadmission screening within 48 hours preceding IRF admission.
• Provides education to patient and/or family on admission criteria, financial eligibility/responsibility, rehabilitation levels of care, program outcomes, and specific facility programming.
• Partners with Case Management/Social Work at the referring site to facilitate timely transition of care.
• Provides education to referral sources (physicians, case managers, social workers, therapists, nurses, etc.) on admission criteria, program eligibility, and facility outcomes.
• Provides weekend on-call coverage to perform urgent assessments.
• Adheres to organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

• Graduate of an accredited nursing, rehabilitation therapy program, or social work program.
• RN/PT/OT/SLP and a minimum of 3 years of experience in the rehabilitation field or LCSW and a minimum of 5 years of direct experience in the rehabilitation field.
• Ability to perform clinical assessments.
• Experience with CMS rehabilitation regulations and guidelines.
• Ability to educate clinical and non-clinical stakeholders on admission criteria.

• Clinical work experience in the acute rehabilitation setting.
• Knowledge of insurance benefits.
• For nursing, BSN, or ability to obtain within two years of hire.

• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse License or Physical Therapist License or Occupational Therapist License or Speech Language Pathology License or NJ Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

• CPR/BLS Certification or ability to obtain upon hire.

Minimum rate of $45,375.20 Annually. The posted rate of pay is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package.