Case Management - Comprehensive Prenatal Health Worker

At Unicare, we strive to provide high quality health care to the community we serve. Our goal is to provide easily accessible, comprehensive, and affordable health care to every family member, while reducing visits to emergency rooms and urgent care facilities. Our mission is to be a community health care organization that treats everyone with dignity and, respect and cultural sensitivity to help create an environment in which all can prosper.

The Comprehensive Prenatal Health Worker (CPHW) / Medical Assistant provides support services, ongoing orientations, assessments, care plan development, appropriate nutrition, health education and psychosocial interventions and referral when needed, to UCHC's prenatal patients. Works under the Clinic Manager to assist with maintaining efficient patient flow and quality care during the clinic hours. Works as part of the health care team including physicians, NP / PA's and LCSW to provide comprehensive care in a non-judgmental manner. UCHC is a federally qualified health center providing comprehensive patient-centered primary care services including medical, dental, substance abuse treatment, mental health and outreach services to low income, multiethnic, uninsured and underinsured populations.

Essential Functions

• Conducts face-to face interviews with all prenatal patients, screens patients forpresumptive eligibility (PE) and issuing of PE card if eligible; Issues the 2nd good thru extension for patients.
• Identify opportunities and facilitate efforts to expand service or increase patient accessinto programs.
• Assures client charts are documented whenever telephone & face-to-face contact is made.
• Codes all super bills accordingly to type of visit and signs all chart entries using legalsignature and title.
• Provides ongoing orientation, assessments, classes and makes the appropriate referrals when needed to our prenatal patients.
• Prepares all Intake packets English / Spanish and makes sure all appointments have been given to patient accordingly. i.e. Intake, Initial, Medi-Cal, etc.
• Assist patients in completing Medi-Cal forms (application) and follow-up on No show / missed appointments.
• Orders all prenatal forms as needed and fax weekly PE enrollment Summary Forms tothe state.
• Fax weekly schedules to Medi-Cal worker and advocate for patients with the Medi-Calworker.
• Case management of the prenatal program, which includes reviewing all prenatal charts after each clinic visit with the provider, as well as reviewing each chart the day before thevisit with the provider. This is to assure that all procedures, tests, etc. that the providerhas ordered have been done and lab results have been received on a timely manner.
• Attends recommended job-relatedtrainings provided by the CPSP County program.
• Perform vital signs and record in eCW.
• Triage and room patients for telehealth and in-person visits.
• Provide back up support for the medical assistant team, which includes all functions of a medical assistant.
• Assist with the training of medical assistants and volunteer staff.
• Assist with daily and monthly quality assurance reviews including emergency kit check off.
• Record and maintain the refrigerator and freezer temperature log.
• Perform inventory and order VFC vaccine
• Order laboratory and medical supplies
• Check monthly supplies and medications for expiration and discard appropriately.

Non-Essential Functions

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Work Schedule

May be traveling to all Unicare Health Center clinics to work or attend meetings as needed.

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