Director of Transitional Services Job Description
Our dynamic organization is looking for a detail-oriented, self-motivated individual to manage facility census through relationships with insurers, hospitals, physicians and community organizations, to generate patient referrals and admissions.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Has primary responsibility for satisfaction for Transitional Rehab patients.
- Achieves facility census goals and annual budget projections.
- Serves as a liaison between the facility and referral sources including, but not limited to, hospitals, physicians, community organizations and home health agencies.
- Develops objectives and strategies to maximize short and long-term admissions utilizing key referral sources.
- Serves as a liaison between the facility and patients / family members with a specific focus on customer service.
- Works with interdepartmental team to coordinate screening and admission of patients to the facility.
- Collects and distributes facility statistics for internal and external purposes.
- Provides feedback to interdepartmental teams on process improvement and customer service successes and challenges.
- Conducts appropriate research and analysis of local market and current market trends.
- Maintains effective and timely communications with facility administrator, designated team members and key referral sources.
- Takes initiative; looks for opportunities to improve patient experience, validate our differentiation to referral partners and improve our outcomes.
- Develop and spearhead facility’s customer service initiatives.
- Conducts facility tours for prospective patients, families and other guests as needed.
- Participate / attend required facility meetings and other meetings as deemed appropriate by facility Administrator.
- Maintains knowledge base of Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance reimbursement, processes and policies.
- Manages all daily activities within facility as deemed necessary by Facility administrator.
- Effectively networks with appropriate referral sources.
- Establish facility as a community educational resource.
- Maintains extensive “referral partner” email distribution lists.
- Presents program results to both internal and external customers.
- Conduct appropriate marketing functions to establish facility as a market leader.
Ideal candidate will have experience in healthcare or pharmaceutical sales with an emphasis on general surgeons and orthopedic practices.