? [Apply in 3 Minutes] Care Manager RN
Company: Swedish Health Services
Location: Mercer Island
Posted on: July 16, 2025
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Job Description:
Description Care Manager RN @ Swedish First hill Per diem/On
call Variable shift The nurse case manager coordinates the care and
service of selected patient populations through the acute care
episode, across the continuum. Works collaboratively with
inter-disciplinary teams, both internal and external to the
organization, to improve patient care through effective utilization
and monitoring of healthcare resources and assumes a leadership
role to achieve desired clinical, financial, and resource outcomes.
For direct patient care roles: Performs and maintains currency of
essential competencies as required by specific area of hire and
populations served. - Acts as resource and provides oversight for
the Case Management Associate for discharge planning and
utilization activities •Coordination: Integrates the work of the
healthcare team by coordinating resources and services necessary to
accomplish agreed-upon goals. - Comprehensively assess patients’
goals as well as their biophysical, psychosocial, environmental,
economic/financial, and discharge planning needs. - Procures
services and resources for identified patients and families,
serving as an advocate to promote achievement of agreed-upon goals.
•Advocacy: Advocates on behalf of patients and caregivers for
service access or creation, and for the protection of the patient’s
health, safety and rights. - Advocates for the patient, family,
physician, and facility to obtain benefits from insurance carriers
and others that provide financial assistance for patients and
promote health care treatment goals. - Identifies and reports cases
and problems appropriate for secondary review to Case Management
Department leadership, the Medical Director, or Physician Advisor.
•Resource Management; Assures prudent utilization of all resources
(fiscal, human, environmental, equipment and services) by
evaluating the options available and balancing cost and quality to
assure the optimal clinical and financial outcomes. - Assesses the
appropriateness and timeliness of level of care, diagnostic testing
and clinical procedures, quality and clinical risk issues, and
documentation completeness. - Maintains and documents third-party
payers’ authorizations, contacts, and transactions for individual
patients. •Accountability: Accepts responsibility and
accountability for achievement of optimal outcomes within their
scope of practice. - Seeks out information and resources and uses
creative problem solving for complex discharge planning, quality of
care, and utilization issues. Explores new resources when the
opportunities for the patient are absent or in short supply. -
Continually evaluates case management services and client outcomes.
•Professionalism: Acquires and maintains knowledge and competence
related to the expectations of their position and practices within
their scope. - Studies information available to remain informed of
reimbursement modalities, community resources, review systems, and
clinical and legal issues that affect patients and providers of
care. - Serves as a resource and provides education to patients,
physicians, and professional staff on levels of care,
quality-of-care issues, and regulatory concerns. - Provides
orientation and mentoring to new staff. - Works in accordance with
applicable state and federal laws and with the unique requirements
of reimbursement systems. - Is knowledgeable about and acts in
accordance with laws and procedures regarding patient
confidentiality and release of information, Americans with
Disabilities Act, other laws protecting rights, and worker’s
compensation laws when applicable to the case manager’s practice. -
Performs other duties requested by the department leadership.
Providence caregivers are not simply valued – they’re invaluable.
Join our team at Swedish First Hill and thrive in our culture of
patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding,
commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we
know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower
them. Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree - Graduate of an
accredited Bachelors Nursing degree program or completion of an
accredited Nursing program with a Bachelors degree or higher in a
health care field. Or - Applicants without a BSN degree must
actively pursue and attain a BSN within three years of hire.
Continued employment by Swedish beyond three years is contingent
upon attaining the BSN degree. - Washington Registered Nurse
License upon hire. - 3 years of Registered nursing experience in an
acute care hospital. Preferred Qualifications: - 1 year of Hospital
case management experience. Why Join Providence? Our best-in-class
benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in
staying well, growing professionally and achieving financial
security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our
mission of improving the health and wellbeing of each patient we
serve. Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of
the Providence family of organizations may change your current
benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for
various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal
Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies,
availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and
other various reasons. About Providence At Providence, our strength
lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working
at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role,
we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can
support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an
inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is
essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers
(all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and
a full range of health and social services across Alaska,
California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a
comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people,
advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year
tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable. The amounts listed
are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available
for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call,
overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a
retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care
benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability
insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations,
holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources
and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits. About the
Team Providence Swedish is the largest not-for-profit health care
system in the greater Puget Sound area. It is comprised of eight
hospital campuses (Ballard, Edmonds, Everett, Centralia, Cherry
Hill (Seattle), First Hill (Seattle), Issaquah and Olympia);
emergency rooms and specialty centers in Redmond (East King County)
and the Mill Creek area in Everett; and Providence Swedish Medical
Group, a network of 190 primary care and specialty care locations
throughout the Puget Sound. Whether through physician clinics,
education, research and innovation or other outreach, we’re
dedicated to improving the wellbeing of rural and urban communities
by expanding access to quality health care for all. Providence is
proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to the
principle that every workforce member has the right to work in
surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful
discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender,
disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed,
national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation,
marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited
by local, state, or federal law. We believe diversity makes us
stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce,
learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for
advancement. Requsition ID: 373793 Company: Swedish Jobs Job
Category: Care Management Job Function: Clinical Care Job Schedule:
Per-Diem Job Shift: Variable Career Track: Nursing Department: 3901
SFH CASE MANAGEMENT Address: WA Seattle 747 Broadway Work Location:
Swedish First Hill 747 Broadway-Seattle Workplace Type: On-site Pay
Range: $51.43 - $79.84 The amounts listed are the base pay range;
additional compensation may be available for this role, such as
shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra
shift incentives, or bonus opportunities. PandoLogic.
Category:Healthcare, Keywords:Medical Case Manager, Location:Mercer
Island, WA-98040
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