Care Management Assistant - ED Navigation

**Job Description:**

The Care Management Assistant is a patient-focused role that manages and optimizes patient care in collaboration with nurses and social work care managers, often serving as a bridge between patients, their support people, and the healthcare team. Their responsibilities encompass a range of tasks, including coordinating appointments, facilitating communication with physicians and families, educating patients about available resources, and educating patients and families while delivering regulatory or payer notifications.
**Essential Functions**

+ Serves as a liaison between the department and external organizations or individuals, including payers, physicians, post-acute agencies, patients, patient, patient representatives, and other departmental stakeholders.
+ Receives and prioritizes requests and transmits clinical information for service authorizations in accordance with contractual requirements and communicates with care managers, utiliz...