POPULATION HEALTH MANAGER (RN)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Health Care Provider
Posted on May 1, 2019
Req #: | 155709 |
Department: | UW MEDICINE POPULATION HEALTH MANAGEMENT |
Job Location: | Other Location |
Job Location Detail: | UW Tower, Northwest Hospital, and/or UW Neighborhood Clinics |
Posting Date: | 01/28/2019 |
Closing Info: | Open Until Filled |
Salary: | Salary is commensurate with education and experience. |
Shift: | First Shift |
Notes: |
This web job announcement will be used to recruitment for multiple Population Health Managers for UW Medicine Population Health Management. These appointments are grant-funded, full-time, and anticipated to be 6-7 months in duration, with possible extension based on funding.
This position provides opportunities to work in a fast-paced, challenging, diverse and rewarding environment. As an employee you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For detailed information on Benefits for this position, click here. |
UW Medicine Population Health Management is excited to be recruiting for newly-created, outstanding opportunities: Population Health Managers. These grant-funded positions will be full-time, 100% FTE and anticipated to be 12-14 months in duration with possible extension based on funding.
The Population Health Manager (PM) is a newly-created and unique care manager position within the UW Medicine Population Health Management team. The role is a clinical position created to support UW Medicine’s Care Management Program with particular focus on Transitional Care Management (TCM), Chronic Care Management (CCM), Annual Wellness Visits (AWV), and High Risk Care Management (HRCM). The Population Manager will serve as a liaison between the Population Management team and the primary care clinics in either a central or embedded clinic role with the intent to optimize TCM and CCM opportunities for our entire patient population that experience an inpatient admission post discharge. This PM role embedded in the clinic will support our primary care providers furnish TCM and AWVs under CMS “Incident to” guidelines.
The primary responsibility of the Population Manager will be to coordinate post-inpatient discharge visit follow-up with a primary care provider (PCP).
During the specified time period the interactive contact will assess the patient’s or caregiver’s understanding of discharge instructions, medication reconciliation, open care gaps, identify CCM needs, and ensure the PCP follow-up visit is scheduled. Population Managers embedded in clinics will provide the TCM or AWV under the supervision of a primary care provider.
REQUIREMENTS:
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