Admissions RN 8P-8A

• Facilitate admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients.

• Respond to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes.

• Schedule/complete pre-admission assessments and communicate recommendations to patients or their families.

• Collaborate with other facility medical and psychiatric personnel to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions.

• Coordinate admission and transfer between levels of care within the facility.

• Communicate projected admissions to designated internal representative in a timely manner.

• Perform insurance benefit verifications, disseminating the information gathered to patient, their families and other

appropriate facility staff.

• Ensure all medical admission documentation is gathered from external sources prior to patient admission and secure

initial pre-authorization for treatment and admission.

• Assist individual therapists with concurrent reviews with insurance companies to secure continued treatment.

• Coordinate and facilitate peer to peer reviews when needed and collaborate the results of reviews with multi-disciplinary

treatment team.

• Provide accurate and ongoing assessment of patient status in the admissions process.

• Communicate treatment recommendations to and coordinate with other treatment teams.

RN license, CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).