Job Description
Per Diem
Middlesex Health
Based in Middletown, Connecticut, Middlesex Health, a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, includes Middlesex Hospital, a not-for-profit magnet hospital with 275 beds, and two Middlesex Health Cancer Center locations. It also features three emergency departments and two urgent care centers, along with many other programs and services. Middlesex Health s network of primary care physicians, medical and surgical specialists, and other employees work to meet the needs of the Middlesex County and Connecticut shoreline communities.
Using innovative technology, Middlesex Health s vision is to be the clear, first choice for medical care, and its mission is to provide the safest, highest-quality care and best experience possible.
Today's Smarter Choice for Care
Middlesex Health is an independent award winning organization. At Middlesex Health, we have a unique combination of award-winning talent, world-class technology and patient-first care that's making health care better. Through our affiliation with the Mayo Clinic Care Network, Middlesex Health has access to the most advanced medical knowledge and research available.
Benefits of Working at Middlesex Health:
When you choose Middlesex Health to further your career, you have chosen a health care system that strives for excellence in patient care as well as employee satisfaction. In fact, we firmly believe they go hand-in-hand.
Middlesex Health is committed to offering employees a comprehensive, competitive and affordable benefit package. We also continuously seek to improve and expand the benefits available to our employees. In addition to our paid time off, some of these benefits include:
Tuition and continuing education assistance: Middlesex Health provides financial support for training and education.
Retirement plan: The Middlesex Health Retirement Savings & Investment Plan allows eligible employees to make voluntary, pre-tax contributions and receive limited matching contributions from the health system every pay period, along with an automatic core contribution from the health system each year.
Student Loan Relief Program: Middlesex Health offers a voluntary Loan Relief benefit from Fiducius that can help you better manage your student loan.
Summary:
To provide case management and education to populations of patients living with chronic disease. The RN Care Manager provides education and resources to patients across the continuum including the inpatient setting, outpatient areas and possibly in the home when needed. The RN Care Manager acts as an adjunct medical and allied health professionals in the community in caring for patients with chronic illness. Acts as a resource to primary and specialty physicians in identifying and managing high cost and high risk patients.
Minimum qualifications:
- A Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and licensed to practice nursing in the State of Connecticut
- 7 years of experience in acute care, home care or long term care
- Certification in a nursing specialty
- Advanced knowledge and understanding of the healthcare delivery system and chronic care populations
- Strong organizational, communication, problem solving and decision making skills.
- Specialty certification in COPD preferred and/or a minimum of 5 years experience in management of COPD.
Preferred qualifications:
Masters of Science in NursingManaged Care experienceCase management experience
