Director Inpatient Care Management

The Director Inpatient Care Management provides strategic and operational leadership for care management, utilization management, discharge planning, transitions of care for the acute care setting, and population health initiatives across a three-hospital health system. This leader is responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance, optimizing resource utilization, improving patient outcomes, reducing avoidable readmissions, and supporting financial performance through effective utilization review and care coordination practices.

The Director collaborates closely with executive leadership, physicians, nursing leaders, case managers, social workers, revenue cycle teams, and community partners to ensure patients receive the right care, in the right setting, at the right time.

Bachelor’s degree in nursing AND a master's degree in a health-related/science field.

New Hampshire Registered (RN) License

Certified Case Manager (CCM), Accredited Case Manager (ACM), or related certification strongly preferred.

• Minimum of 7–10 years of progressive leadership experience in Care Management, Case Management, Utilization Review, or Population Health.

• Minimum of 5 years of management experience within a hospital or integrated health system.

• Experience overseeing multi-site or multi-hospital operations preferred.

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is MEDIUM. The employee must

regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 - 25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 - 50 pounds.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to do fine motor, hear, speak,

and walk. The employee is frequently required to bend, reach, sit, squat, and stand. The employee is

occasionally required to climb, do repetitive motion, kneel, and smell.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision,

and peripheral vision.

The employee is frequently exposed to airborne pathogens, blood borne pathogens, and bodily fluids. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical hazards - shock, moving mechanical parts, non-weather related heat or cold, slippery surfaces, and toxic or caustic chemicals.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.