The RN Care Manager serves as a liaison among Brookdale teams, residents, families, and healthcare providers within our communities, promoting coordination, communication, and collaboration at Brookdale’s HealthPlus communities. This role encompasses the identification, coordination, communication, and implementation of services essential for enhancing residents' quality of life and achieving an optimal level of wellness. Works closely with primary and specialty care providers to formulate resident-specific care plans, ensuring that the delivery of medically necessary services aligns with established care plans. Serving as a resident advocate, they actively contribute to identifying and improving service delivery, closing gaps in care, and understanding key interventions and care protocols relevant to treating residents in place.   - Educates and explains Brookdale’s care pathways as determined by individual diagnosis and healthcare needs. - Monitors and communicates quality performance measures, and assists with training and education of teams to ensure quality outcomes for residents. This involves effective communication and collaboration with providers and other healthcare entities, such as managed care coordinators, insurance providers, and external healthcare partners responsible for coordinating resources and supplies pertinent to resident needs. - Reviews the current population’s medical diagnoses to identify care needs. Assists in assessing the health, functional, and psycho-social status of residents. - Coordinates services required to enhance optimum wellness and manage chronic conditions. - Collaborates with hospice, palliative, and home health services/therapy as indicated. - Provides advanced care planning education to residents and families/responsible parties. Helps ensure each resident has a completed Advanced Care Plan, inclusive of goals of care. Communicates with healthcare providers to ensure care delivery is consistent with the resident’s Advanced Care Plan(s) Participates in collaborative care reviews (CCR) and care conferences. - Provides resources for residents and families to make informed decisions regarding choices in meeting healthcare needs and effectively champions the benefits of residing and receiving care and services at the community. This includes informing them about opportunities to enhance care and the benefits of an IE-SNP plan or other benefit opportunities. - Applies quality improvement methodology to analyze, enhance, and manage outcomes, striving to achieve quality measure goals. Collaborates with Health and Wellness Directors (HWD) to ensure compliance with service plans, while working with providers to attain value-based outcomes for our residents. This includes coordinating and communicating care for each resident. - Provides oversight, coordination, and family communication during resident hospitalization and rehab stays. Ensures return to the community where appropriate. - Communicates information promptly to the appropriate care provider regarding changes in residents’ health/well-being, personal needs, risk management issues, customer service issues, and family, or outside health care provider concerns. - Facilitates continuity of care for those residents receiving home health care, hospice services, and other third-party healthcare-related services.  - Completes documentation as required by Brookdale or state regulatory agencies.   This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. An associate should perform all duties as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Participate in on-the-job training experiences for the Executive Director role, learn new skills about senior living, and be able to demonstrate increasing proficiency and expertise with managerial responsibilities within the Brookdale organization. The Brookdale Bench Program will prepare you to assume the Executive Director role at one of our communities including, but not limited to areas of people management, operations management, and clinical management when you assume the role of Executive Director. - Responsible for all operations, acting as contact for all staff, residents, prospects, community organizations, government agencies and the public. - Hands on leader who supervises, directs, and motivates community staff. Provides direct resident care as needed. Fills in at various positions as needed to cover staffing shortages. - Maintains high degree of resident satisfaction and retention through consistent delivery of high quality services. Provides leadership for staff and residents to include pro-actively solving problems and resolving issues with support from district leaders. Administers annual resident satisfaction survey. - Executes renewal program with existing residents through a proactive program. - In conjunction with regional operations, executes annual operating and capital budgets. Aggressively anticipates and minimizes negative budget variances and deficits. Meets and exceeds budget occupancy goals for the property. Continually explores means of revenue enhancement and expense reduction. - Hires, trains, disciplines and terminates employees in accordance with company policies. Reviews hires, promotions, disciplinary actions and termination of employment of associates ensuring consistency in the selection and retention of quality associates. - Ensures buildings, grounds and property are up to company standards through the oversight of preventative maintenance systems and programs, and frequent inspections that meet company standards of excellence. - Maintains current departmental policies, procedures, and licenses in accordance with company, Federal, State, and local requirements. - Fosters creativity among staff to deliver the highest quality and best services to residents in in accordance with Brookdale standards. Acts as a member of Resident Counsel. - Develops and maintains a positive image within the local community. Becomes active in social and civic affairs of the local community. Represents the community and the company to governmental agencies, professional organizations, community groups and other appropriate public agencies/groups. - Utilizes approved sales and marketing activities and strategies to maximize occupancy. - Assists in developing and conducting service plan reviews, as required by state codes, with appropriate resident care team members and resident families, which maintains the personal dignity of residents. - Oversees the resident admission process, healthcare management and maintenance of resident documentation to ensure compliance with company policy and state regulations. This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. An associate should perform all duties as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Responsible for planning, developing, organizing, implementing, evaluating, and directing the Social Service Department in accordance with current existing federal, state and Brookdale standards.   - Ensures the resident’s psychosocial concrete needs are identified and met in accordance with federal, state, and Brookdale requirements. - Meets with administration, medical and nursing staff, and other related departments in planning social services, as directed. Involves the resident/family in planning social service programs when possible. - Interviews residents/families as necessary and in a private setting. Obtains information concerning the resident’s personal and family problems, past illnesses, etc. Provides consultation to members of our staff, community agencies, etc., in efforts to solve the needs and problems of the resident through the development of social service programs. - Provides information to resident/families as to Medicare/Medicaid, and other financial assistance programs available to the resident. Participates in community planning related to the interests of the facility and the services and needs of the resident and family. - Plans resident’s discharge. - Develops and implements social care plans and resident assessments. - Maintains records of outside referrals. - Communicates needs and plan of care to resident, families, responsible parties, and appropriate staff. - Assists in coordinating resident’s financial affairs. - Assists with coordination of resident room moves.   This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. An associate should perform all duties as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Ensures community is adequately staffed in order to meet resident’s care and service needs and in accordance with the company standards and guidelines.   - Supervises direct care staff as delegated by manager/supervisor. - Ensures associate schedules are communicated/distributed to all associates a minimum of one week in advance (or longer as required by your individual agency). - Effectively manages and communicates all changes in resident/client needs to associates as updates are made to the contract and plan of care. - Manages on-call/after-hours business needs as assigned. - Effectively communicates all staffing shortages and additional staffing needs to supervisor. - Effectively operates and maintains corporate scheduling and billing computer system according to company guidelines and best practices. - Completes daily billing in a timely manner, ensuring state and SOX compliance regulations are followed in regards to billing practices - Responsible for completing review and reconciliation of billing on a weekly basis. - Ensures billing information is complete and correct prior to finalizing monthly resident billing. - Maintains positive relationships and rapport with co-workers, residents, family members and community personnel. - Effectively maintains client chart/documentation and filing practices as per company guidelines and best practices. - Completes other duties as assigned. - Covers BAH cases in the event that care associates cannot be secured to provide services to client(s). - Manages on-call/after office hours and weekend’s business needs as assigned.   This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. An associate should perform all duties as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Keeping our communities running in top-notch condition requires the skills of an experienced maintenance technician. Maintaining the interior and exterior of community buildings and grounds is a great career for the individual who likes working with their hands and tools. Our residents will appreciate your services as you keep public and private living areas up to expectations in accordance with current federal, state and local regulations and company policies.

- Manages the day-to-day healthcare operations of the community to ensure resident’s healthcare needs are met. - Ensures residents are treated with respect and dignity and ensures quality care as resident’s healthcare needs change. - Ensures consistent quality resident care and service delivery throughout all shifts; this may require assuming the role and responsibilities of a Caregiver or Med Tech/Aide in order to meet the residents’ needs and staffing requirements. - Assists in the supervision of community-based licensed nursing staff, medication technicians/CMA's, and Caregivers and provides training and education to Caregivers on an ongoing basis to include classroom in-services and situation-specific training. In addition, they will also manage the associates schedules. - Oversees and manages the continuity and consistency of medication training, pharmacy management and medication supervision and/or administration in the community. Conducts periodic Care Associate medication skills inventory checks, and periodic medication audits per Brookdale Guidelines. - Shares on call duties as required. - Education as required to obtain state nursing license (LPN/LVN or RN) and a minimum of 1-2 years relevant experience. - LPN or LVN license. Brookdale is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.  

The Human Resource Director directs staff of the Human Resource (HR) department at assigned community(s) to ensure legal compliance and effective implementation of the organization's policies, mission and talent acquisition strategy to enable high quality resident experiences and care. - Oversees community’s human resources functions, including, but not limited to, recruiting, new hire orientation, performance management, compensation, benefits, leave of absence administration, safety and workers’ compensation administration, associate relations, recognition, training/development and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. - Manages the talent acquisition process including sourcing, interviewing, hiring, pre-employment screening, and onboarding associates, complying with federal, state and local employment laws and regulations. Ensures community talent acquisition practices result in qualified community associates necessary to provide high quality care and services to residents, minimizing the use of premium labor. Advises community hiring managers regarding hiring decisions. - Assists in the implementation and evaluation of human resources policies, processes and programs to meet community needs. - Promotes professional growth of staff and oversees performance review processes including the successful execution of programs including but not limited to associate orientation, training, recognition, and best practices. Trains management on leadership and HR skills in order to foster professional development among community leaders. - Partners with stakeholders, including HR Business Partner and Associate Relations as needed, to conduct necessary investigations on associate relations issues and advises management on appropriate resolution. Manages associate stay and exit interview process using feedback to improve associate turnover and retention. - Identifies possible pay issues and works with Executive Director and HR Business Partner to resolve using approved pay ranges. - Analyzes trends in turnover, hiring, promotions, separations, and grievances to determine support or action needed to adjust unfavorable trends. - Assists in representing community(s) as required in legal proceedings, unemployment hearings and workers’ compensation claims. - Develops, implements, and monitors the human resources department budget. - Maintains associate personnel files and reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance.   This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. An associate should perform all duties as assigned by his/her supervisor.

Participate in on-the-job training experiences for the Health and Wellness Director role, learn new skills about senior living, and be able to demonstrate increasing proficiency and expertise with managerial and clinical responsibilities within the Brookdale organization. The Brookdale Bench Program will prepare you to assume the Health & Wellness Director role at one of our communities including, but not limited to areas of people management, clinical management, quality care and regulatory oversight when you assume the role of a Health and Wellness Director.

Keeping our communities running in top-notch condition requires the skills of an experienced maintenance technician. Maintaining the interior and exterior of community buildings and grounds is a great career for the individual who likes working with their hands and tools. Our residents will appreciate your services as you keep public and private living areas up to expectations in accordance with current federal, state and local regulations and company policies.

- Manages the day-to-day healthcare operations of the community to ensure resident’s healthcare needs are met. - Ensures residents are treated with respect and dignity and ensures quality care as resident’s healthcare needs change. - Ensures consistent quality resident care and service delivery throughout all shifts; this may require assuming the role and responsibilities of a Caregiver or Med Tech/Aide in order to meet the residents’ needs and staffing requirements. - Assists in the supervision of community-based licensed nursing staff, medication technicians/CMA's, and Caregivers and provides training and education to Caregivers on an ongoing basis to include classroom in-services and situation-specific training. In addition, they will also manage the associates schedules. - Oversees and manages the continuity and consistency of medication training, pharmacy management and medication supervision and/or administration in the community. Conducts periodic Care Associate medication skills inventory checks, and periodic medication audits per Brookdale Guidelines. - Shares on call duties as required. - Education as required to obtain state nursing license (LPN/LVN or RN) and a minimum of 1-2 years relevant experience. - LPN or LVN license. Brookdale is an equal opportunity employer and a drug-free workplace.