Annual Wellness Nurse/Performance Improvement Specialist

Caring For the Community You Love

Choose a career to make a difference in people's lives every day, choose Fisher-Titus!

Perks of working at Fisher-Titus:

• Hours of Work- Full Time

• Comprehensive Benefits Package- Medical & Dental coverage, 401K match, paid time off, tuition assistance and more!

• Shift, Weekend & PRN differential

About Fisher-Titus:

Fisher-Titus proudly serves the greater Huron County area's 70,000-plus residents by providing a full continuum of health and wellness care from heart and cancer care to outpatient services such as lab, imaging, and physical rehabilitation.

Vision: Be the first choice for healthcare and employment within our community

Mission: Deliver compassionate and convenient care to the highest level of excellence that promotes lifelong health and wellness for our community

Primary responsibilities of Annual Wellness Nurse

• identification of Medicare patients appropriate for Annual Wellness Visits (AWV) and execution of guided processes to complete the AWV

• review of all chronic conditions with supporting documentation, ensuring the physician is coding each diagnosis to the highest level of specificity, ensuring patient adherence to the medical plan of care, educating as needed on evidence-based medicine guidelines, including all preventive and disease specific screenings

• Assists patient with the development of self-management goals or appropriately refers to Chronic Care management

• Verifies eligibility, HCC codes needing addressed, closes care gap opportunities and develops a 5-10 year preventive plan of care using the USPSTF recommendations

• Contacts and schedules patients as needed

• May also assist clinic staff with completion of other clinical tasks as needed

• Knowledgeable of community resources and assists patients in connecting with those resources

• Serves as patient advocate and assists in identification and improvement of service delivery

This position requires expertise in the nursing process, using critical thinking skills to plan and coordinate care. The AWN is responsible and accountable for direct and indirect patient care for designated patient populations.

Although, primarily performed by a LPN, the role of an Annual Wellness Nurse can be accomplished as an RN with understanding that salary will be established at an LPN level.

Primary responsibilities of Performance Improvement Specialist

• Conducts medical record reviews as identified through the medical staff programs

• Assists in the assessment of anticipated input of external regulation pertaining to Quality Assessment/Performance Improvement