Physical Therapy Care Manager Home Health

Physical Therapy Care Manager Home Health at AdventHealth Home Health and Hospice summary:

The Home Health Physical Therapy Care Manager at AdventHealth coordinates and directs physical therapy services for home health patients, providing comprehensive assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care. This role involves developing individualized care plans, educating patients and caregivers, and collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The position requires clinical expertise, scheduling optimization, and ongoing patient reassessment to ensure quality care and adherence to home health standards.

Home Health Physical Therapy Care Manager AdventHealth Home Health

All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

• Benefits from Day One


• Paid Days Off from Day One


• Career Development


• Whole Person Wellbeing Resources


• Mental Health Resources and Support

Our promise to you:

Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. Its about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

Schedule: Full Time

Shift : Monday Friday 8 am 5 pm, on call rotation for weekend approximately 2-3 times per year

Location: Jackson, Platte, Clay, Cass Counties in Missouri and/or Leavenworth, Johnson, Wyandotte, Franklin, Douglas and Miami Counties in Kansas.

The role you'll contribute:

The Home Health Physical Therapist (PT) Care manager is a professional therapist who coordinates and directs the home care patient's services based on individual patient needs. The PT Care manager is responsible for independent management of the Home Health patient population requiring the use of advanced assessment, teaching and decision-making skills. The PT is responsible for ensuring that appropriate referrals to other services are made, interdisciplinary conferencing takes pace regularly, and appropriate documentation is completed. Relevant knowledge and experience is consistently applied to new patient populations. The PT Care manager cares for a caseload of home health patients requiring therapy as the primary service by evaluating the patient for appropriateness of home health and developing the home care plan in conjunction with the physician. S/he educates patients, families, caregivers and community providers to safely perform care. S/he provides follow up by evaluating effectiveness of the home care plan, and monitoring patient/family's response to the plan 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 to design or implement 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 home care caseload adapting to the changing needs of the home care patients and families. Optimizes schedule daily to support productivity, efficiency and maintain best practice visit utilization.


• Performs an evaluation, assessing function using a method which objectively measures activities of daily living such as, but not limited to, eating, swallowing, bathing, dressing, toileting, walking, climbing stairs, using assistive devices and mental and cognitive factors, documenting the measurement results in the clinical record.


• Utilizing assessment data, formulates a patient specific plan of care along with the patient, family and physician which is feasible within the physical, financial and emotional resources of the family. Establishes individualized, realistic, measurable patient centered goals in consultation with the patient, family and other health care providers including goals to improve or stabilize patients medical condition, functional abilities and promote independence. Considers the physical, cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, age specific and educational needs of the patient when developing the plan of care.


• Periodically reassess the patient every 30 days: provide the ordered therapy service, functionally reassess the patient and compare the resultant measurement to prior assessment measurements. Document the measurements in the clinical record along with the therapists determination of the effectiveness or therapy or lack thereof.


• Observes and records activities and findings in the clinical record and reports to the physician the patients reaction to treatment and any changes in patients condition, or when there are deviations from the plan of care.

The expertise and experience you'll need to succeed:

Minimum qualifications:

• 1 year relevant clinical physical therapy experience


• Physical Therapist (PT)


• Valid in state Drivers License with current car insurance


• Active American Heart Association BLS

Preferred qualifications:

• Doctorate Degree in Physical Therapy


• 1 year recent, relevant experience in a Medicare-certified home health agency as a care-manager


• Home Health Care-Manager Certification


• Cert for Oasis Specialist-Clinical (COSC)

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: Home Care

Organization: AdventHealth Shawnee Mission Home Health Hospice

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: 1 - Day

Req ID: 25033306

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age or disability/handicap with respect to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion, wages, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment.

Keywords:

physical therapy, home health care, care management, patient assessment, rehabilitation, care coordination, interdisciplinary team, therapy plan development, patient education, outcome evaluation