RN Case Manager - Occ Health located at Scout Motors
Occ Health - Scout Motors
Full Time
Day Shift
8:00am-4:30pm
Sign-On Bonus: 7,500.00
Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer.
Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.
Job Summary
Responsible for providing professional nursing care to on-site employees for assigned contract company. Manages and directs the nursing components of the Occupational Medicine program. Treats occupational injuries and illnesses. Ensures the appropriate documentation, recording and reporting of all work-related illnesses and injuries for employees of the contract company. Maintains the computer-based tracking system and compiles required reports and records. Coordinates cases between health care providers and the contract company. Participate in regulatory and organizational audits and health and safety committees.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
Minimum Years of Experience: 5 Years of relevant nursing experience
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): None
Required Certifications/Licensure: Current RN license to practice in the state of South Carolina
Maintain CPR Certification
Required Training: None.
Essential Functions
- Provide on and off-site management of occupational medicine program for assigned contract company.
- Evaluate, assess, and develop care plans for work-related health events.
- Coordinate with interdisciplinary team of physicians, physical therapy staff, and hospital staff and serves as a resource when necessary.
- Advise and write departmental policies to ensure best practice.
- Assist departments with identifying, evaluating, and implementing accommodations and return to work options for workers with restricted duties.
- Completes all necessary annual reviews, to include assisting with internal and external audits.
- Manage all cases to facilitate productivity, assuring appropriate care and return to work.
- Assess healthcare needs, then implement and manage healthcare programs to improve health and facilitate return to work, maintain OSHA records & reports and worker medical files.
- Contribute in the design of controls for injury prevention and health surveillance related to actual and potential hazards in the work environment.
- Identify primary and secondary prevention and health promotion strategies to optimize health of the population
Duties & Responsibilities
- Maintains contact with management to stay abreast of injury trends and reports on concerns related to quality of care.
- Manage the required physical evaluation programs and services to meet regulatory requirements such as: OSHA, CDC and DHEC.
- Serves as intermediary between insurance carriers, attorneys, providers, employers, and employees.
- Assess patient needs, review and coordinate options for services and resources, evaluate patient progress, deliver education, and provide thorough and supportive discharge planning.
- Perform utilization review and preauthorization of potential services.
- Investigates cases related to COVID-19 and provides guidance to patients and their families.
- Case manage employee illness and injury. Coordinate with insurance, claim examiners, patients, physicians, employers, and attorneys.
- Stays abreast of current trends and best practices.
- Other duties as assigned.
We are committed to offering quality, cost-effective benefits choices for our employees and their families:
- Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
- Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one. LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
- Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
- Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
- Adoption assistance
- LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
- Tuition reimbursement
- Student loan forgiveness
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Lexington Health to provide equal opportunity of employment for all individuals, and to remain compliant with applicable state and federal laws and regulations. Lexington Health strives to provide a discrimination-free environment, and to recruit, select, on-board, and employ all employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including but not limited to, lactation. Lexington Health endeavors to upgrade and promote employees from within the hospital where possible and consistent with the employee’s desires and abilities and the hospital’s needs.
Nearest Major Market: Columbia
Nearest Secondary Market: South Carolina