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Clinical Manager
Company: Anuco Home Health Care LLC Location: Office Employment Type: Full-Time Department: Clinical Operations Reports To: Administrator Salary: $105,000–$125,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications
About the Role
Anuco Home Health Care LLC is seeking an experienced and highly motivated Clinical Manager to lead the quality, safety, compliance, and coordination of our Medicare-certified home health services.
The ideal candidate is a confident Registered Nurse who combines strong clinical judgment with effective leadership, regulatory knowledge, accountability, and operational follow-through. This position requires extensive home health experience, advanced knowledge of OASIS and Medicare requirements, and proven proficiency with the Axxess Home Health EMR system.
Responsibilities
Direct and coordinate clinical operations to ensure safe, timely, individualized, and medically necessary care.
Supervise, coach, support, and evaluate nurses, therapists, medical social workers, home health aides, and other patient-care personnel.
Participate in recruiting, interviewing, hiring, orientation, competency validation, performance evaluations, and corrective action.
Maintain appropriate staffing, visit coverage, caseload distribution, and on-call support based on patient needs, geography, availability, and staff competencies.
Lead interdisciplinary case conferences, clinical meetings, and communication regarding changes in condition, hospitalizations, missed visits, and barriers to care.
Review SOC, ROC, Recertification, Transfer, and Discharge documentation for accuracy, consistency, compliance, and timeliness.
Ensure OASIS assessments, Plans of Care, physician orders, medication profiles, goals, interventions, and visit documentation accurately reflect and support the patient’s needs.
Confirm documentation supports homebound status, skilled need, medical necessity, ordered services, and continued eligibility.
Monitor outstanding clinical documentation and ensure corrections are completed within required timeframes.
Review clinical records for completeness and readiness for authorization, billing, audits, and regulatory surveys.
Investigate and resolve patient complaints, incidents, accidents, hospitalizations, infections, and unusual occurrences.
Coordinate effectively with physicians, referral sources, patients, families, payers, clinicians, and internal departments.
Assist with complex cases, peer-to-peer reviews, authorization concerns, denials, and transitions from hospitals or rehabilitation facilities.
Perform supervisory or skilled nursing visits when necessary to protect patient care or address urgent staffing needs.
Participate in clinical on-call coverage and act on behalf of the Administrator when formally assigned.
Quality and Compliance Responsibilities
Ensure compliance with Medicare Conditions of Participation, Illinois home health regulations, accreditation standards, HIPAA, OSHA, payer requirements, and agency policies.
Coordinate and participate in the agency’s Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement program.
Monitor hospitalizations, infections, complaints, incidents, documentation trends, utilization, patient outcomes, and staff performance.
Develop and implement corrective-action and performance-improvement plans.
Lead or oversee infection-prevention surveillance, education, reporting, and corrective measures.
Maintain continuous readiness for regulatory surveys, accreditation visits, payer audits, and medical-record reviews.
Ensure referral-acceptance decisions consider anticipated patient needs, available staffing, service capacity, and staff competencies.
Provide clinical education and competency support based on audits, performance findings, regulatory changes, and patient-care needs.
Identify documentation or care-delivery trends that could result in patient risk, claim denials, payment reductions, or regulatory findings.
Axxess EMR Responsibilities
Demonstrate advanced, hands-on proficiency with Axxess Home Health.
Navigate and monitor patient charts, OASIS assessments, Plans of Care, orders, medication profiles, schedules, visit notes, wound documentation, QA corrections, alerts, and clinical reports.
Use Axxess dashboards, reports, calendars, and task queues to identify late documentation, missed visits, incomplete orders, pending corrections, hospitalization risks, and compliance concerns.
Review documentation and assign corrections through the appropriate Axxess workflow.
Track outstanding documentation and clinical corrections through final resolution.
Assist clinicians with clinical documentation and Axxess workflow questions.
Monitor physician orders, certification periods, visit frequencies, and documentation deadlines in Axxess.
Collaborate with intake, scheduling, authorization, QA, orders, and billing personnel to prevent delays affecting patient care, authorization, or reimbursement.
Recommend improvements to Axxess templates, reports, alerts, and clinical workflows.
Required Qualifications
Graduate of an approved school of professional nursing.
Active, unrestricted Illinois Registered Nurse license.
Minimum of two years of home health nursing experience.
At least two years of healthcare supervisory experience, including one year in home health or a closely related service.
Demonstrated proficiency with Axxess Home Health.
Strong knowledge of Medicare-certified home health operations, OASIS, Plans of Care, physician orders, clinical documentation, and interdisciplinary care.
Experience supervising clinical personnel and addressing performance, documentation, or compliance concerns.
Excellent clinical judgment, communication, leadership, organization, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work independently, prioritize competing responsibilities, and meet regulatory and operational deadlines.
Ability to participate in on-call coverage and travel to patient homes when required.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor of Science in Nursing or advanced nursing degree.
Three or more years of clinical leadership experience with a Medicare-certified home health agency.
Advanced Axxess Home Health experience, including clinical dashboards, QA workflows, orders, scheduling, wound documentation, reports, and task management.
COS-C, HCS-O, or equivalent OASIS certification.
Current CPR or BLS certification.
Experience leading QAPI, infection prevention, survey readiness, OASIS review, clinical education, and performance improvement.
Experience overseeing wound care, infusion therapy, complex medical conditions, therapy services, hospital transitions, and Medicare Advantage patients.
Performance Expectations
The Clinical Manager will be expected to:
Ensure patients receive appropriate services without avoidable gaps or delays.
Maintain accurate, complete, timely, and compliant clinical records.
Ensure OASIS assessments and clinical documentation meet agency, payer, and regulatory standards.
Hold clinicians accountable for documentation, visit completion, corrections, and communication requirements.
Ensure outstanding clinical tasks and corrections are resolved promptly.
Provide meaningful coaching, education, and support to clinical personnel.
Address patient-care concerns and changes in condition without unnecessary delay.
Maintain effective communication among clinical and administrative departments.
Use Axxess consistently to monitor clinical operations and identify risks.
Reduce preventable hospitalizations, missed visits, documentation delays, denials, and compliance concerns.
Maintain readiness for surveys, audits, payer reviews, and accreditation visits.
Demonstrate professionalism, reliability, confidentiality, sound judgment, and leadership.
About Anuco Home Health Care
Anuco Home Health Care LLC is a Medicare-certified home health agency serving Chicago and surrounding communities. We provide skilled, compassionate care that supports patient safety, recovery, independence, and quality of life at home.
We value accountability, collaboration, clinical excellence, professional growth, and practical leadership. The Clinical Manager will have direct access to agency leadership and a meaningful opportunity to improve patient outcomes, clinician performance, and clinical operations.
Anuco Home Health Care LLC is an equal opportunity employer.