Case Manager at Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital – Springfield

Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital – Springfield is proud to be recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s Best Rehabilitation Hospitals in 2024. A career at Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital -Springfield, an inpatient acute rehabilitation hospital operated jointly with Lifepoint Health and Mercy, is more than a job. It’s a chance to be a vital member of an interdisciplinary team caring for people in the “Queen City of the Ozarks” who need continued care to recover completely. You have specialized skills and our patients in the Springfield metropolitan area need them! If you are an enthusiastic individual seeking an environment dedicated to superior patient care and an organization with a strong mission to serve our community, we invite you to apply!

Our Benefits:

•    New competitive pay rates
•    Tuition assistance/reimbursement
•    Expansive benefit package
•    Professional development and advancement opportunities
•    Targeted approach to career development
•    Strong interdisciplinary teamwork opportunities
•    Superior quality patient outcomes
•    Supportive leadership and culture
•    CEU Support
•    State-of-the-art equipment

What you will do in this role:

• Completes departmental orientation, initial and annual competencies


• As appropriate, consults other departmental staff to collaborate in patient care delivery, identify barriers to care and or discharge and develop solutions/resolution


• Completes documentation per workflow timeline and content requirements including completion of the Individual Plan of Care (IPoC) per CMS guidelines


• Schedules family conferences and/or communicates with caregiver following each team conference and more often as needed to keep patient and designated caregiver informed of progress and provides appropriate information related to goal achievement, course of rehabilitation stay, and plans for discharge


• Coordinates weekly patient care team conferences to facilitate development, monitoring and refinement of treatment plan to achieve identified patient goals and outcomes


• Reviews the patient’s assigned CMG and helps the team identify any potential missed comorbid conditions that are actively being treated during the patient’s stay. Communicates any findings to the HIM team


• Other duties as assigned

• Current Registered Nurse or Social Work licensure or Healthcare professional licensure as Respiratory Therapist, Physical Therapist, Speech Language Pathologist or Occupational Therapist


• Certification in Case Management or Rehabilitation Nursing preferred; for example, Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCM); Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) certification, American Case Management Association (ACM) or Board Certification in CM by the ANCC e.g.: RN-BC


• Minimum of 2 years social work or case management experience in an inpatient setting highly preferred; acute/rehabilitation hospital experience preferred


• Effective oral and written communication skills in English, additional languages preferred.


• Basic computer skills in excel, word, outlook, power point, etc. required

Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital – Springfield provides inpatient rehabilitation services for patients recovering from strokes, brain or spinal cord injuries, amputations, complex orthopedic injuries and other conditions. Our rehabilitation hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC) as well as the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) for inpatient rehabilitation. Mercy Rehabilitation Hospital Springfield was nationally ranked in the top 6% of rehab hospitals for 2017.