What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse (RN) Care Coordinator position at St. Elizabeth Healthcare?
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Job Type:
RegularScheduled Hours:
24
Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare
At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.
Benefits That Support You
We invest in you — personally and professionally.
Enjoy:
- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
- Retirement savings with employer match
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
- Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility
Job Summary:
The best career is right here.St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Registered Nurse for a Care Coordination position located at our Edgewood, Kentucky location.
*Weekend Option*
Shift & Hours: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm; Part-time, 16 hours weekly (compensated for 24 hours), working Saturday & Sunday.
Job Description:
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The Care Coordinator, in collaboration with the patient/family, social workers, physicians and interdisciplinary team, ensures patient progression through the continuum of care in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Primary responsibilities include:
- Identifying, initiating and managing optimum patient flow/throughput to enhance continuity of care
- Planning and facilitating coordinated, safe transitions to the next level of care required
- Promoting patient satisfaction, and quality outcomes.
- Targeting an optimal length of stay based on the patient's individual response to treatment, procedures, and interventions. Maximizes contracted benefits and available services in care management planning.
- Providing care management planning to ensure quality patient care, ensures regulatory compliance, and meets patient/family needs.
Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.
Education, Credentials, Licenses:
Graduate of an accredited baccalaureate school of nursing or related field. If eligible, must have a Compact (multi-state) License in their primary state of residence. Licensed as an RN to practice nursing in the state where work is being performed. Meets contact hour requirements for licensure, including all state required courses.
Specialized Knowledge:
Knowledge of state and federal regulatory issues, payor strategies, payment methodologies, benefit plan designs and limitations. Working knowledge of SEHC policies and procedures. Good organization, critical thinking, problem solving, and communication skills. Excellent human relations skills and team leadership abilities.
Kind and Length of Experience:
2 years’ experience in acute care
FLSA Status:
ExemptRight Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.