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Home Health Physical Therapist Care Manager

AdventHealth, Orlando, Florida, us, 32885

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Home Health Physical Therapist Care Manager The Home Health Physical Therapist (PT) Care Manager coordinates and directs the home care patient\'s services based on individual patient needs. The PT Care Manager manages the Home Health patient population independently, using advanced assessment, teaching and decision-making skills. The PT ensures appropriate referrals to other services, facilitates interdisciplinary conferences, and completes documentation. The PT cares for a caseload of home health patients requiring therapy as the primary service, evaluating patient suitability for home health and developing the home care plan with the physician. The PT educates patients, families, caregivers and community providers to safely perform care. Follow-up includes evaluating effectiveness of the home care plan and monitoring patient/family response to achieve patient/family goals and top decile outcomes. The PT Care Manager also identifies performance improvement and home health standard of care initiatives and assists in designing or implementing programs to address needed changes.

The Value You\'ll Bring To The Team

Coordinates and directs the care of a caseload of home patients requiring physical therapy as the primary skill. Provides comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation for that caseload as the primary Care Manager.

Sets priorities of the home care caseload adapting to the changing needs of the home care patients and families. Optimizes schedule daily to support productivity, efficiency and best practice visit utilization.

Performs an evaluation, assessing function using a method which objectively measures activities of daily living and cognitive factors, documenting results in the clinical record.

Formulates a patient-specific plan of care with the patient, family and physician that is feasible within the resources of the family. Establishes individualized, realistic, measurable patient-centered goals and considers physical, cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, age-specific and educational needs.

Periodically reassesses the patient every 30 days, provides the ordered therapy service, and documents measurements and effectiveness in the clinical record.

Observes and records activities and findings in the clinical record and reports to the physician any changes in the patient\'s condition or deviations from the plan of care.

Minimum Qualifications

Master\'s Degree

1 year relevant clinical physical therapy experience

Driver\'s License

Basic Life Support

Preferred Qualifications

Doctorate Degree

Recent, relevant experience in a Medicare-certified home health agency as a care-manager

Certification for Oasis Specialist-Clinical (COSC)

Home Health Care-Manager Certification

This facility is an equal opportunity employer and complies with federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws, regulations and ordinances. The salary range reflects the anticipated base pay range for this position. Individual compensation is determined based on skills, experience and other relevant factors within this pay range. The minimums and maximums for each position may vary based on geographical location.

Category:

Rehabilitation Services

Organization:

AdventHealth Home Health and Hospice

Schedule:

Full-time

Shift:

Day

Location:

East Orlando, South Sanford, Winter Springs, Oviedo, East Longwood, Waterford, Christmas area (zip codes include 32773, 32732, 32750, 32708, 32765, 32766, 32826, 32820, 32709, 32828, 32833, 32831, 32832)

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