RN - Hospice Admissions
Company: CARLE
Location: Longview
Posted on: May 25, 2023
Job Description:
The Clinician/Admissions role is responsible for determining the
eligibility and preparation of patient/families for hospice care.
This can be done in hospitals, assisted living or long term care
facilities, and/or the home environment throughout our service
area. This position is responsible for all activities designated to
enhance and coordinate relationships with referral sources,
increase referrals, and assist in timely admissions.
- Demonstrate understanding of Hospice Regulatory
requirements/benefits including covered services, recertifications,
transfers, and non-certifications.
- Consistently completes all admission documentation within
policy guidelines. Returns admission documents to office complete
and in timely fashion within policy guidelines.
- Comprehends department specific indicators.
- Performs case management activities of assessment,
coordination, planning, monitoring, implementation, and evaluation.
Interacts with patients, caregivers and families to assess, plan
care, arrange services, monitor, and provide support and
education.
- Completes required admission/recertification corrections within
24 hours of receiving them.
- Completes visit notes and telephone conversation notes and
transmitted timely according to policy
- Ensures physician orders are written timely, corrections to
care plans are entered and transmitted according to policy time
line.
- Reviews verbal orders with MD office, written, and completed
immediately and transmitted within time line established by policy.
Ensures patient visit strings are added to the record to make sure
visits are not missed.
- Assess patients for appropriate placement in Hospice per
Medicare guidelines.
- Make home visits to monitor for signs/symptoms associated with
end stage disease and end of life.
- Implement interventions to palliate symptoms in concert with
attending physicians.
- Make home visits to assess and pronounce death, do post-mortem
care, notify County Coroner of patient passing, notify Funeral Home
and physician(s).
- Provide comfort for the family and make appropriate referral to
Bereavement Coordinator.
Keywords: CARLE, Champaign , RN - Hospice Admissions, Healthcare , Longview, Illinois
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