Avenir Behavioral Health Center's (ABHC) Mission is to impact our customers' lives by making them feel meaningful, successful, and valuable each day that we have the honor and privilege to serve them.

ABHC's core values are:

• Accountability
• Compassion
• Integrity

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

ADMISSION PROCESS

• Ensure that requests for evaluation are responded to in a timely manner with a thorough evaluation and appropriate disposition.
• Facilitate direct admissions by coordinating with the Physician, referring facility, ABHC staff and insurance authorizations.
• Review new and pending admissions daily in order to ensure that clinical, financial, insurance and administrative information has been accurately obtained and acted upon.
• Ensure that prior authorizations are obtained for admissions.
• Organize information of patient's current needs and provide a succinct clinical presentation to admitting physician.

CUSTOMER INTERACTION

• Interact with patients, family members, external entities and internal staff professionally and respectfully.
• Work collaboratively with all treatment team members to create a treatment environment that supports the facility’s mission to provide exemplary patient care and customer service.
• Act to preserve patient and family dignity and safety.
• Provides assessment of patient's current needs sufficient to formulate recommendation to physician of patient's level of care needs.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the community's continuum of behavioral health resources.

DOCUMENTATION

• Documentation for medical records and reports is timely, legible, thorough, and in required format.
• Document as required including inquiry calls, assessments, managed care data, etc.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

• Experience in Behavioral A & R Setting
• Registered Nurse
• CPI and CPR