APP, HOSPITALIST Job Details | HHC

Division: Eskenazi Medical Group

Sub-Division: EMG -Employee

Req ID: 22619

Schedule : Full Time

Shift : Varied

EMG is affiliated with Eskenazi Health and employs physician and advanced practice providers who support the Eskenazi Health system. A multi-specialty provider group, it strives to be a leading primary care provider serving all patients regardless of ability to pay or condition of health while advancing medicine through teaching and research.

Eskenazi Health is one of American's largest safety net health systems with more than 1 million outpatient visits each year. Partnering with the Indiana University School of Medicine, Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, Indiana. In addition to the 327-bed hospital located on its downtown Indianapolis campus, Eskenazi Health provides services at 10 federally qualified health care centers and multiple mental health sites and residential facilities located throughout Indianapolis. Eskenazi Health is accredited by The Joint Commission and has been highlighted as one of the nation's 150 best places to work by Becker's Hospital Review for four consecutive years.

Indianapolis offers affordable housing, excellent schools and a wealth of entertainment options, including a variety of amateur and professional sports teams, dynamic museums, live theater productions, symphony and opera concerts, a wide variety of shopping options and restaurants, and numerous outdoor festivals, as well as the famous Indy 500 race each May.

FLSA Status

Exempt

Job Role Summary

The APRN – Hospital will be assigned to be part of the hospitalist team that plans, directs, and manages patient's health care at Eskenazi Hospital. This APRN will be intricately involved in the inpatient hospital discharge process, providing care coordination and/or care transitions into a skilled nursing and/or rehab facility. The APRN will also follow the patient in the skilled nursing facility until an adequate and appropriate handoff to the facilities' attending providers have occurred. The APRN will have collaborative agreement(s) with inpatient Eskenazi Health physicians and/or Skilled Nursing Facility physicians that are in the Eskenazi network.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Clinical Practice and Education

1. The APRN, as part of the hospitalist team, acts as the primary provider that will manage hospitalized patients that have been identified to require skilled nursing services after leaving the hospital. They will standardize and lead a hospital discharge process and transitions of care program that is patient-centric and puts the patient at the right post-acute care network facility that best meets their needs for maximal recovery. This will include, but is not limited to:

a. Working closely with the patient, their family and/or caregivers, and case management
b. Ensure smooth and timely transfer to SNF facility
c. Reconciling discharge medications
d. Dictating a timely discharge summary
e. Providing necessary prescriptions for next level of care
f. Following up and communicating important and pending labs and tests results
g. Arranging and coordinating any necessary ancillary services
h. Develop an initial care plan and communicating that plan to the patient, their care giver/family, and the facility
i. Following the patient at the skilled nursing facility for up to 72 hours, or when a safe handoff is achieved, whichever comes sooner
j. Establish a process to monitor and evaluate the program's outcomes, quality, and patient satisfaction, and make recommendations for improvement

Job Requirements

TBD

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

TBD

Minimum Qualifications, Training, and Experience