Admissions Specialist

2 days ago


New Castle, Delaware, United States Acadia Healthcare Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Admissions Specialist to join our team at Acadia Healthcare. As an Admissions Specialist, you will be responsible for facilitating admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients, responding to inquiries about the facility, and collaborating with other medical and psychiatric personnel to ensure appropriate recommendations and admissions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Facilitate admissions and assessment processes for incoming patients
  • Respond to inquiries about the facility within facility policy timeframes
  • Schedule and 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
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Behavioral Science, Social Work, Vocational Rehabilitation, Sociology, Public Administration, or a related field
  • Minimum one year experience working with individuals in a clinical or observational capacity, preferably within the area of specialty for the hiring facility
  • Licensure, as required for the area of clinical specialty, i.e., RN license, CAC or other clinical counseling or therapy license, as designated by the state in which the facility operates
  • CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility)
Additional Regulatory Requirements

For Admissions Specialist who hold a current RN license, the following duties are required:

  • Review complex referrals with administrator-on-call and/or physician
  • Obtain physician orders
  • Accept nurse-to-nurse report from outside referral agencies
  • Provide nurse-to-nurse hand-off report to unit
  • Ensure medication security for all incoming medications per policy
  • Reconcile medications with outside pharmacies and other agencies
  • Communicate new medication orders to pharmacy
  • Assess the immediate and anticipated medical needs of incoming patients
  • Provide nursing care to meet the needs of incoming patients
  • Respond to medical emergencies within the hospital
  • Function as department supervisor in absence of Admissions Supervisor
  • Other nursing duties as assigned by Director of Admissions


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