Hospital Liaison

Job description

Description Astor is seeking an organized professional to build and maintain relationships with hospitals and emergency room departments in the Bronx and the Hudson Valley regions. The liaison will serve as both the communication hub, internal coordinator, and a supportive family contact throughout the hospitalization process, from intake, through inpatient care, discharge and aftercare/return to Astor treatment, ensuring continuity of care of all client psychiatric hospitalizations. Job Responsibilities: - Maintain responsibility for actively tracking, following, and maintaining cases through the entire hospitalization process, including referral, admission, treatment, discharge, and post-discharge. - Ensure that family/client perspective and expertise are prioritized throughout the hospitalization process. - Work with program leadership to develop policies and procedures. - Organize communicating among clients, families and caregivers, collateral providers, and various levels of internal and external peer, clinical, medical, and leadership staff. - Utilize the agency electronic health record to document contacts consistent with programmatic and agency expectations and regulations...