The Care Manager collaborates with social work, physicians, nurses, and multidisciplinary team, lending professional care management expertise to ensure quality, timely, and cost effective case management for an identified patient population and addresses issues or patterns in patient readmission. Under the direction of the Care Management Team Lead, the Director of Care Management, and through coordination with nursing, social work, physicians, and other members of the interdisciplinary team, the Care Manager develops, facilitates, and implements appropriate case management and discharge plans.