Northern Arizona Healthcare

Therapist

• Participate in patient care conferences with other related health services, patient, and family to review patient's progress and evaluate goals.
• Develop appropriate plan of care that include goals and home instructions in conjunction with other team members, patient and family.
• Delegates selected treatment to supportive personnel with assumption of responsibility for care of patient and continuing supervision of supportive personnel.
• Plans specific measures to meet assessed learning needs and documents in patient record.
• Recognizes and addresses patient, family, and appropriate others in the learning needs of the individual.
• Presents information clearly and in a manner appropriate to the level of patient and family understanding.
• Implements the treatment plan and evaluates and records the patient responses to the treatment sessions.
• Participates in the development of individual discharge plans that are responsive to patient/family concerns.

Physical Therapist – Acute

• Participates in patient care conferences
• Develops appropriate plan of care
• Delegates selected treatment to supportive personnel
• Plans measures to meet learning needs
• Implements and evaluates treatment plans
• Acts as a resource person
• Evaluates patients and performs treatments

Physical Therapist

Counselor

• Responsible for the verification and collection of patient demographic and insurance information
• Performs verification of insurance benefits and completes timely notifications
• Provides financial education and counseling to the patient related to insurance coverage

Admissions Counselor – Financial Navigator

• Formulates and conducts educational, therapeutic, and/or support group.
• Conducts individual, couples, and family therapy.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, health care team members and community providers regarding patient status and progress.
• Develops an effective working relationship with the patient and participating family members.
• Ensures the psycho-social assessment or update is completed within 48 hours of admission.
• Ensures that the treatment plan has specific measurable goals, objectives, and interventions that are unique to the patient's problems and strengths.
• Participates in and effectively contributes to patient care conferences, interdisciplinary treatment planning, and case staffing.
• Ensures that interventions designated in the patient's treatment plan are carried out.
• Evaluates and documents the effectiveness of interventions and patient response in a timely manner.
• Responds to requests for case management services in a timely manner.
• Interacts and communicates with community agencies in the assessment of and service to patients.
• Provides liaison and referral services to community agencies and appears in court when requested or subpoenaed.
• Assesses patients for behaviors consistent with the developmental stages and makes note of any deviations in behavior.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of psychopathology, most current DSM, and appropriate treatment techniques, and incorporates knowledge into treatment planning.
• Maintains knowledge of the Adult/Adolescent program rules, protocols, and handbooks.
• Attends facility in-services, staff development, clinical supervision, and department staff meetings.
• Meets regularly with supervisor.
• Strives to maintain and improve professional competence and provides documentation for personnel file.

Program Counselor 1 or 2, BH Inpatient

• Verification and collection of patient demographic and insurance information
• Accurate identification of patients for data entry
• Explanation of scheduled procedures and patient instructions
• Performs medical necessity checking for identified services
• Educates patients on insurance eligibility and coverage
• Handles department call volumes and coordinates information with clinical departments

Admissions Counselor

Payroll

• Maintains integrity of physician and provider data within the Contracts and TERMS databases.
• Ensures PSAs are uploaded.
• Creates and maintains custom reports within the contracts database.
• Researches and evaluates alleged discrepancies, notify chain of command of findings.
• Educates physicians, physician groups, and practice managers in various software systems.

Physical Therapist – Acute

Physical Therapist

Admissions Counselor – Financial Navigator

Program Counselor 1 or 2, BH Inpatient

Admissions Counselor

Physician Compensation Administrator