Care Coordinator Assistant
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Job overview
The Care Coordinator Assistant supports patient care processes across all age groups and serves as a receptionist and secretary. The role coordinates unit activities, manages post-acute referrals and follow-up appointments, and communicates with care teams, patients, and families. It also handles patient notifications, documentation signatures, and transportation referrals to support care progression, continuity, and regulatory compliance.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Care Coordinator Assistant, you will be a vital caregiver and the central hub, assuming responsibility for patient care processes from newborn to geriatric for a designated time frame. You will directly contribute to safe, therapeutic patient care while serving as the primary receptionist and secretary.
Every day you will support safe patient care through multidisciplinary processes and coordinating unit activities. You will efficiently manage information flow and assist healthcare team members in delivering care across all patient age groups.
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate strong organizational and communication skills, a proactive approach to managing day-to-day operations, and a commitment to providing safe, therapeutic care while working effectively with the entire healthcare team.
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Collaborates with and supports the Care Coordination team, including, but not limited to the RNCC and Social Worker.
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Manage timely post-acute care referrals, to assist with length of stay management and mitigation of denials.
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Communicate and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, patients, and family to facilitate care progression.
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Ensure post-acute follow-up appointments for identified patients to assist with readmission prevention and ensuring continuity of care.
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Deliver required patient notifications and letters, and obtain patient or family signatures on required documentation as needed to meet regulatory compliance.
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Manage transportation referrals as requested.
Job Requirements
Required
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Associates Other Associate (two-year) Degree in Business/Health-Related field or
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High School Graduate or High School GED and two (2) years of vocational training, medical office experience or relevant work experience required. Demonstrated experience in Microsoft Office, typing, and computer data entry.
Preferred
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At least three (3) years previous experience in health care, care coordination, utilization review, discharge planning or similar healthcare setting.
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Bachelors Other or BSW.
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Experience supporting clinicians in demanding and fast paced patient care environments.
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Associates Degree.
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Licensed Vocational Nurse: CA.
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Certified Clinical Medical Assistant.
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1925, Dignity Health - Mercy General Hospital is a 310-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Sacramento, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy General Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.
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Pay Range
$31.93 - $36.12 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,250 open Care Coordination jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$31.93–36.12/hr
- California median$32–45/hr37 hourly ranges
- US median$24–45/hr702 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $34.03/hr, is 11% below the California median midpoint ($38/hr) — in the middle half of Care Coordination hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 44 open Care Coordination jobs in California and 1,250 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Dignity Health (this employer)7 open
- UnitedHealth Group5 open
- Sharp HealthCare3 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Care Coordination postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (1,000 postings).
- Education
- 151 of the 1,250 open Care Coordination jobs (12%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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