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The Care Coordinator is responsible for coordinating care and guidance to medically complicated, high-risk patients who are managing end-of-life care. Develops effective interpersonal relationships with patients and their families, works collaboratively as an integral member of the interdisciplinary care team to develop and coordinate to ensure that patients receive appropriate clinical and social services. Utilizes internal and community resources
Responsibilities
1. Works with the interdisciplinary care team to develop a plan of care that addresses all clinical, social, and other needs that patients who have been diagnosed with ALS may need to ensure the highest quality of life for as long as possible. Collaborates with and coordinates all members of the care team and supports the patient and the patients family members.
2. Identifies obstacles for patients that may inhibit their care plan such as child care and transportation. Works collaboratively with other members of the care team to ensure that all essential social services are met.
3. Server as the primary liaison with the funder to facilitate communication and collaboration between the program and the organization. Advocates on behalf of patients enrolled in the program who are requesting financial or other support from the funding organization.
4. Coordinates care with other members of the care team to overcome any identified financial or social barriers that inhibit patients medical care.
5. Communicates with external vendors to facilitate adherence to the care plan, such as transport companies, childcare facilities, durable medical equipment companies, legal and housing services, etc.
6. Documents all patient encounters as appropriate in hospital documentation system and assists with the development of standardized reports on quality, utilization, processes and outcomes of the care coordination process.
7. Educates patients regarding how to navigate throughout the health system.
8. Partners with families and patient care team and community resources to provide well-coordinated timely compassionate, exemplary, interdisciplinary care.
9. Serves as resource for community based education, screening, symposiums, educational sessions, lectures, staff training, etc.
10. Performs other duties as required.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree required, preferably in a health-related profession.
- None, but some experience in health care, patient navigation or related field preferred. Bi-lingual individuals (English/Spanish) desirable.
Employer Description
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
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Compensation
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $58661 - $67500 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
