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Work Shift:
Day Shift
Time Type:
Full time
Department:
CC097460 ACNW Case ManagementMonday-Friday, FT, 8:00-4:30pm (LPN)
The Case Manager Assistant works with the case managers to facilitate patient's continuity of care for home at time of discharge. The Assistant is responsible for making referrals to community care agencies and communicating these arrangements with the case manager and documenting in the patient's medical record. Additional duties include assisting in writing appeal letters for denied medical stay and completing discharge follow-up phone calls.
Completion of an approved program per state's requirements.
Related Field - 1 year of experience
Licensed Practical Nurse - Arkansas State Board of Nursing (ASBN)
1. Complete referral to community resource agencies for patients with home discharge needs.
2. Coordinates and communicates the arrangement of the discharge planning activities.
3. Documents agencies who will be providing services in the medical record along with the completion of follow-up phone calls.
4. Completes discharge follow-up phone calls and documents in medical record. Communicates any relevant gap in providing care to a patient that is identified during the phone call.
5. Assist the manager in writing appeal letters for denials of in-patient admissions.
Arkansas Children's is the only healthcare system in the state solely dedicated to caring for Arkansas' more than 700,000 children. The private, non-profit organization includes two pediatric hospitals, a pediatric research institute and USDA nutrition center, a philanthropic foundation, a nursery alliance, statewide clinics, and many education and outreach programs — all focused on fulfilling a promise to define and deliver unprecedented child health. Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) is a 336-bed, Magnet-recognized facility in Little Rock operating the state’s only Level I pediatric trauma center; the state's only burn center; the state's only Level IV neonatal intensive care unit; the state's only pediatric intensive care unit; the state’s only pediatric surgery program with Level 1 verification from the American College of Surgeons (ACS); the state’s only magnetoencephalography (MEG) system for neurosurgical planning and cutting-edge research; and the state's only nationally recognized pediatric transport program. Arkansas Children’s Hospital is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in seven pediatric specialties (2022—2023): Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology and Urology. Arkansas Children’s Northwest (ACNW), the first and only pediatric hospital in the Northwest Arkansas region, is a level IV pediatric trauma center. ACNW operates a 24-bed inpatient unit; a surgical unit with five operating rooms; outpatient clinics offering over 20 subspecialties; diagnostic services; imaging capabilities; occupational therapy services; and Northwest Arkansas' only pediatric emergency department, equipped with 30 exam rooms. Generous philanthropic and volunteer engagement has sustained Arkansas Children's since it began as an orphanage in 1912, and today ensures the system can deliver on its promise of unprecedented child health. To learn more, visit archildrens.org.
