Mainstreethealth
Health Navigator
Kirksville, MO. Posted 25 days ago
The role
The Health Navigator develops relationships with patients and providers to assist with patient-facing, administrative, and logistical tasks. You will work inside partner clinics to help doctors focus on delivering medical care.
What you will do
- Develop strong relationships with patients to assist them with their care
- Meet with patients during the check-in process and enter data into software
- Call patients to schedule office visits or remind them to pick up medication
- Order and schedule various procedures, tests and screenings
- Identify and track progress on important gaps in patient care
- Maintain a record of patient interactions and communicate with providers using electronic health records
- Educate patients on healthcare options, insurance benefits, and common medical conditions
- Help patients access various community resources
- Help coordinate follow-up care after patients have been discharged from the hospital
Required qualifications
- Self-starter comfortable working independently
- Enjoys meeting new people and developing relationships
- Strong service mentality
- Can skillfully explain the importance of key activities that makes patients healthier
- Flexible and excited to tackle new challenges
- Loves solving problems and takes initiative
- Comfortable using data to help inform decisions and activities
- Excited by working in a fast-paced organization where change is the norm
- Learns and applies new information quickly
- Familiar with and comfortable using multiple software platforms
- Active unencumbered driver’s license required
- GED or High School Diploma
About the company
Main Street Health is the nation's largest provider of value-based care exclusively serving rural America. They partner with rural primary care doctors to provide staff, technology, and processes for a value-based delivery model.