1 jobs found

The Joint Replacement Service Care Navigator establishes, promotes, and coordinates care mapping and delivery for joint replacement patients. The Care Navigator works collaboratively with members of the multidisciplinary care team, including, but not limited to, the orthopedics and sports medicine office, office and operating room schedulers, operating room team, inpatient nursing and therapy services, case management, post-acute providers, Visiting Nursing Association, physicians, APCs, patients, families, and payers to ensure that the care is safe and effectively coordinated along the continuum. The primary focus of the Care Navigator is to engage and support joint replacement patients from the moment a decision is made for surgery through the pre-operative and post-operative experience to discharge and post discharge care and surveillance. In addition to engaging the patient, the Care Navigator engages care team members along the patients journey to ensure that care...