CDI RN Lead

Job description

Summary/Objective The CDI RN Lead serves as a clinical subject matter expert and frontline leader for the Clinical Documentation Improvement program. This role is responsible for coordinating program elements, mentoring staff, and driving physician engagement to ensure documentation accurately reflects patient complexity, severity of illness, and risk of mortality. The Lead ensures to program aligns with compliance standards and organizational goals while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Essential Job Functions: Acts as a primary point of contact for the CDI team; coordinates and maintains all program elements to meet organizational goals and balanced scorecard metrics . Ensures timely, accurate and complete clinical documentation to support high -quality data for physician and hospital outcome reporting. Serves as a liaison between CDI and Coding professionals ; proactively resolves discrepancies and facilitates a unified approach to clinical code assignment. Analyzes program data and key performance indicators; creates comprehensive reports to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for documentation improvement. Develops and delivers education for CDI staff and ph...