Admissions Coordinator - RN
Waverly, NY
$36/hr – $48/hrFull time
Posted 2 weeks ago
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Job Description
Salary: $36 / HR - $48.32 / HR Overview:
Admissions Coordinator (RN)
Elderwood at Waverly
Help Patients Find the Right Next Step in Their Care.
Are you an experienced Registered Nurse who enjoys building relationships, coordinating care, and helping patients transition successfully from the hospital to post-acute care?
Elderwood is seeking a clinically experienced Admissions Coordinator (RN) to serve as a trusted liaison between hospitals, referral partners, patients, families, and our skilled nursing communities. In this role, you'll use your clinical expertise to evaluate referrals, coordinate admissions, and help ensure patients receive the right level of care at the right time.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy collaborating with healthcare professionals, and want to make a meaningful impact beyond the bedside, we'd love to meet you.
Why Join Elderwood at Waverly?
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with employer contribution
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Tuition assistance and professional development opportunities
- Employee referral bonus program
- Career advancement opportunities within a growing healthcare organization
- Supportive leadership and collaborative clinical teams
Why This Role Matters
Every admission represents a patient and family navigating an important healthcare transition. As an Admissions Coordinator, you'll play a critical role in ensuring individuals receive timely, appropriate care while helping families feel confident in their next step.
Your clinical expertise, compassion, and ability to build trusted relationships will directly impact patient outcomes and help shape the future of post-acute care within our communities.
Elderwood is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
This position requires the ability to read, write, speak, and understand English at an intermediate or higher level to safely communicate with residents, families, healthcare providers, and team members.
Responsibilities:
What You'll Do As an Admissions Coordinator - You'll serve as the clinical ambassador for Elderwood while helping patients and families navigate the transition into skilled nursing care.
Responsibilities include:
- Conduct clinical admission assessments for prospective residents in hospitals, assisted living communities, and other referral settings.
- Review medical records to determine clinical appropriateness for admission.
- Coordinate timely admissions with hospitals, physicians, case managers, discharge planners, and internal clinical teams.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with hospital discharge planners, case managers, physicians, and referral partners.
- Represent multiple Elderwood locations while maintaining an in-depth understanding of each facility's services, specialties, and capabilities.
- Coordinate pre-admission planning to ensure seamless resident transitions.
- Collaborate with facility leadership to maximize admissions and occupancy.
- Participate in community outreach, referral development, and targeted marketing initiatives.
- Track referral activity, screening outcomes, and admissions while preparing monthly reporting.
- Maintain responsive communication through phone, email, and mobile technology while traveling between assigned referral locations.
What We're Looking For - Required Qualifications
- Active Registered Nurse (RN) license.
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing or other healthcare-related field.
- Minimum of 2 years of recent clinical nursing experience.
- Long-Term Care and/or Hospital Discharge Planning experience required.
- Strong clinical assessment and critical thinking skills.
- Working knowledge of medical terminology, electronic medical records, and hospital documentation.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining exceptional customer service.
- Valid driver's license, reliable transportation, and the ability to travel to assigned hospitals and referral locations.
- This position requires regular interaction with residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors. In order to ensure a safe work environment for residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors of the Company, and to permit unfettered communication between the employee and those residents, coworkers, visitors, and supervisors, this position requires that the employee be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language at an intermediate or more advanced level.
Ideal Experience - We're especially interested in nurses with backgrounds in:
- Hospital Case Management
- Care Coordination
- Discharge Planning
- Utilization Review
- Admissions Nursing
- Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF)
- Long-Term Care
- Acute Care Nursing
- Transitional Care
Elderwood
Elderwood is a leading provider of care for seniors in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. Offering a wide range of services across a continuum of high-quality facilities, Elderwood is consistently recognized for quality and value. Service lines include independent living, assisted living and skilled nursing, with specialty services such as subacute rehab, memory care, orthopedic and cardiac rehabilitation, cardiac telemetry, wound therapy, ventilator care and oncology care. Elderwood’s affiliates provide additional services including home care, pharmacy and prescription delivery, medical transportation, and managed long-term care services.At Elderwood, we’re not just a location providing a service—we’re people caring for people. That’s why in everything we do, we put the wellbeing of our residents and their families first. Through our comprehensive services, professional staff, and person-centered approach, we’re committed to providing the highest level of care in order to maintain our residents’ health and wellness.
