A Patient Advocate or Navigator provides direct assistance to patients at a health care or long term care facility. Guides patients in understanding their options and making important decisions about their treatment plans and medical costs; provides emotional support; and serves as a liaison with health care providers.
Patient Navigator - Remote In Michigan McLaren Health Care - 3.2 Flint, MI Job Details Full-time 22 hours ago Qualifications High school diploma or
GED Full Job Description Position Summary:
Assists patients with navigation through the healthcare system medical services, administrative systems and patient support services. Reduces barriers that keep patients from getting timely treatment by identifying patient needs and directing them to sources of emotional, financial, administrative, or cultural support.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities :
Facilitates and coordinates patient care to ensure that patients receive timely diagnoses and treatment. This includes maintaining communication with patients and the healthcare team; contacting patients who are "at risk" for missing appointments; ensuring that medical records are available at scheduled appointments. Facilitates removing barriers by providing potential financial support sources and helping with paperwork; arranging transportation and/or child/elder care; facilitating linkages to follow-up services. Promotes health and comfort through each stage of patient diagnosis and treatment by activities such as providing health information, screening services and clinical trials; connecting patients to counseling services; directing patients to sources of palliative (pain-easing) or end-of-life (hospice) care. Empowers and encourages patients to navigate the healthcare system on their own by coaching patients to become advocates for their own care; modeling behaviors for patients such as checking on appointments or arranging assistance. Builds awareness of patient navigator services among the health care team to assist coordinating patient care and locate "at-risk" patients that need patient navigation services.
Required:
High School diploma or GED equivalent.
Preferred:
Associate degree, preferably in a health-related field. One-year prior work experience in health care.
Additional Information Schedule:
Full-time Requisition ID:
26004474
Daily Work Times:
8:00a-5:00p
Hours Per Pay Period:
80
On Call:
No Weekends:
No About Us McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan's largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
