BHMG
OBGYN
1st Shift
The Nurse Navigator, under the direction of the Practice Manager, serves as the primary clinical point
of contact for specialty care patients and their families, providing comprehensive coordination across
the continuum of care. This role leverages deep specialty-specific knowledge to guide patients from
diagnosis through treatment, discharge, and follow-up, eliminating barriers to timely care, facilitating
system flow, and ensuring seamless transitions between referring providers, specialists, clinical
research teams, ancillary services, and clinical outcomes departments. Acting as educator, advocate,
and care coordinator, the Nurse Navigator supports informed decision-making, reinforces treatment
plans, promotes adherence, and enhances both patient and provider satisfaction by delivering
proactive, patient-centered navigation within a complex specialty care environment.
Minimum Education, Training, and Experience Required
Bachelor's degree in Nursing, or higher.
Current Kentucky or Compact State unrestricted license as a Registered Nurse.
Must maintain an active BCLS and ACLS card through the American Heart Association.
At least 3 years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities required
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
