The posting
This is not an active opening. We’re building a talent community of experienced RN Care Managers for future opportunities supporting patients in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. If you’re interested in being considered as positions become available in these markets, we’d love for you to apply.
Who You Are
You’re a collaborative professional, driven by the potential to make a meaningful impact in healthcare. The challenges of healthcare don’t deter you—instead, you see them as opportunities to find innovative solutions that benefit the partners, people, and communities we serve. Honest Health’s commitment to purpose, innovation, communities, and kindness resonates with you, inspiring you to bring commitment, creativity, and compassion into your work. You’re ready to join a team focused on reimagining primary care for a healthier future that benefits all.
Does this sound like you? Let’s connect.
Who We Are
At Honest Health, we believe in purpose and partnership to lead the transformation in primary care. Our team of healthcare experts and clinicians collaborates with a range of stakeholders—from health systems, physician organizations, and payers to providers, practices, and patients — to deliver innovative solutions that elevate care, control costs, and support long-term health. Guided by our core values, we’re creating a value-driven model that creates lasting benefits for everyone, now and into the future.
For us, that’s just an Honest day’s work.
Your Role
You will manage patients’ specialized needs based on their individual condition(s) and/or reason for recent utilization in collaboration with physicians, advanced practice providers, and care coordination team members. Your job duties will include taking full ownership of assigned patients with complex chronic conditions, serious illness, advanced frailty, or recent healthcare utilization with the goal of avoiding preventable admissions, reducing unnecessary healthcare use, and optimizing patient outcomes. Through standardized assessments and workflows you will work with the patient to identify needs based on their values, goals and preferences. From this assessment, and in partnership with the patient and provider, you will develop an effective, and comprehensive nursing care plan for each member. These care plans will be used to coordinate patient care delivery with network providers, contracted vendors, and community-based services.
This work takes place remotely, but you must be licensed in the state(s) where the role is based: Washington, Oregon, and/or Alaska
Primary Functions of the Nurse Care Manager Include:
- Quickly build empathetic relationships with patients and families.
- Evaluate and identify patients’ needs based on their respective values, goals, and preferences, then translate these needs into clinical needs.
- Interface with primary care physicians, advanced practice providers (APP), specialists, and various disciplines on the development of case management plans/programs.
- In conjunction with the physician/APP, implement care/treatment plans by coordinating access to health services across multiple providers/ disciplines.
- Refer patients to internal Honest team members for care management activities as outlined by defined procedures.
- Monitor care and identify cost-effective measures, including recommendations for alternative levels of care and utilization of resources.
- In partnership with Honest team members, effectively coordinate patient admissions and discharges from hospitals or skilled nursing facilities via coordination with respective facility clinicians and case managers.
- Build relationships across network hospitals, SNFs, home health companies, and DME vendors within the respective community.
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the nurse care plans based on quality and cost drivers and modify as necessary.
- Coordinate the interdisciplinary approach to providing continuity of care, including transfer coordination, discharge planning and obtaining all authorizations/approvals/transfers as needed for outside services for patients/families.
- Act as a patient advocate and educator to assure that the patient has the knowledge to care for his/her condition and patient is educated and empowered to be responsible for participating in the plan of care.
- Develop individualized patient/family education plan focused on self-management and deliver patient/family education specific to a disease state.
- Engage internal resources to identify and respond to social determinants of health such as lack of transportation, stable housing, or food resources.
- Participate in data collection and analysis of clinical outcomes of care and customer satisfaction standards. Participate in the formulation and implementation and monitoring of action strategies and outcomes of care or customer service. Ensure that accurate records are maintained of the care associated with each patient.
- Actively participate in huddles, interdisciplinary team (IDT) sessions, and patient case conferences.
- Commendably represents Honest to patients, their families, and the community.
- Perform other related responsibilities as assigned.
How You Qualify
You reviewed the Who You Are section of this job posting and immediately felt the need to read on. This makes you a match for our innovative culture. You accept things change quickly in a startup environment and are willing to pivot quickly on priorities.
- Must have reliable access to high-speed internet to ensure seamless remote work communication and productivity
- Active Registered Nurse license is required in the state(s) where the role is based: Washington, Oregon, and/or Alaska
- Willing and able to obtain additional state nursing license(s) as business needs dictate, with support from Honest leadership and reimbursement for required fees
- Experience and high level of comfort with engaging patients virtually using different technologies including phone, text, video, etc. is required
- Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing preferred
- Certified Case Manager (CCM) credential preferred
- 3+ years of clinical practice in a hospital, clinic, home care, or nursing home setting highly preferred
- Case management experience with a senior population preferred
- Disease management and/or physician office experience highly preferred
- Prior experience with electronic health records or health registries required
- Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook required. Experience with PowerPoint preferred
The base pay range for this role is $84,260 - $97,790. Compensation takes into account several factors including but not limited to a candidate’s experience, education, skills, licensure and certifications, and organizational needs. Base pay is just one piece of the total rewards program offered by Honest. Eligible roles also qualify for short-term incentives and a comprehensive benefits package.
