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Cooper Norcross Health

Academic health system serving South Jersey

Mobile Integrated Healthcare Coordinator

Nursing & Frontline Patient CareUpdated on Nov 10
Full-timeCamden, NJ, USA$34 - $56

About the Job

Requirements

  • Three to five years of experience in an advanced life support environment as a paramedic is required.
  • Communication with patients, visitors, and coworkers is required.
  • A bachelor's degree in a Healthcare or Public Health-related field is required; the degree requirement is waived with six or more years of paramedic experience.
  • A New Jersey Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic (MICP) or Mobile Intensive Care Nurse (MICN) license is required, or the candidate must be eligible for New Jersey reciprocity.
  • Community Paramedicine Certification (CP-C) is required or must be obtained within one year of hire.
  • BLS, ACLS, and PALS, EPC, or PEPP certification is required upon hire.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct comprehensive in-home assessments to identify medical, behavioral, and social needs in the patient's home environment.
  • Communicate findings to primary care providers, care managers, and specialty teams to help close care gaps.
  • Coordinate access to community-based health services for underserved and general populations, including primary care, public health, community-based programs, disease management, prevention and wellness, and mental health services.
  • Identify changes in patient status that require immediate initiation of 911 emergency services and/or communication with the appropriate Transitional Care member or other medical providers managing the patient's care to determine treatment plans.
  • Provide clinical care up to the New Jersey paramedic scope of practice in accordance with NJAC 8:41 and 8:49 regulations and agency-specific clinical protocols.
  • Serve as part of a multidisciplinary team and as a bridge to support people with substance use disorder (SUD) and their families in accessing care or support.
  • Provide follow-up, in partnership with a peer recovery coach or patient navigator and as part of a multidisciplinary team, to patients recently reversed with naloxone and/or administered an opioid partial agonist-antagonist.
  • Support chronic disease management by monitoring and reinforcing care plans for conditions such as CHF, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, and SUD.
  • Provide post-discharge home visits with the goal of reducing morbidity and hospital admission or readmission.
  • Educate first responders about resources available to patients with SUD so they can better provide this information to patients and families.

Desired Qualifications

  • Bilingual English and Spanish skills are preferred.
  • NREMT-Paramedic certification is preferred.

About the Company

Cooper Norcross Health

Academic health system serving South Jersey

Cooper Norcross Health is an academic health system serving South Jersey from the Philadelphia suburbs to the Jersey Shore. Its Camden flagship is South Jersey's only Level I adult trauma center and the busiest in the Philadelphia region; the system also operates a Level II pediatric trauma center and MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper. Patients access primary, specialty, emergency, inpatient, surgical, urgent, and rehabilitation services at Cooper hospitals and outpatient clinics, while physicians teach at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and advance care and research. Rooted in Cooper Hospital, which opened in 1887, the not-for-profit system is headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Camden, NJ
Founded
1887

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