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Job Summary: The hospital case manager coordinates patient care, ensuring a smooth transition through the hospital stay and beyond. They assess patient needs, develop care plans, and facilitate communication between patients, families, and the healthcare team. Case managers also play a key role in discharge planning and utilization review, helping patients access appropriate resources and services. Essential Functions: The case manager plans, coordinates, develops, evaluates, and monitors the care of assigned group of patients to achieve quality cost-effective patient outcomes. Completes & documents in the EMR, a discharge assessment on all assigned patients, which would include meeting with all new admissions to assess and discuss a proposed discharge plan and follow the progress of the discharge plan until discharged. The Case Manager in the discharge planning role, will attend daily care management team meetings on their assigned unit....