ALISA ROWAN PRATT
Nashville,Tennessee
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Case Manager
Ascension Saint Thomas Rehabilitation Hospital
Nashville, Tennessee
01.2023 - Current
- Provides care coordination including needs assessment and identification of care options, communication with patients and families in an interdisciplinary environment consistent with the position's qualifications, professional practices and ethical standards
- Coordinates management of care and ensures optimum utilization of resources, service delivery and compliance with external review agencies
- Provides ongoing support and expertise through comprehensive assessment, care planning, plan implementation and overall evaluation of individual patient needs
- Enhances the quality of patient management and satisfaction, to promote continuity of care and cost effectiveness through the integration of functions of case management, utilization review and management and discharge planning
Case Manager II
Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital
Nashville, Tennessee
01.2016 - Current
- Serve as a key member of the interdisciplinary team and actively manages and directs resource utilization to achieve the highest quality outcomes during a patient's rehabilitation experience
- Provide brief counseling and resources to community services
- Address Substance Abuse Misuse
- Oversees the effective coordination of services and manages issues in the following main areas: admission and discharge, team conference and interdisciplinary plan of care communication, patient and family education, payor relations and total fiscal management
- Performs ongoing utilization review and acts as a liaison to the payor while assuring that cost effective treatment is provided by the team
- Assures that regulations regarding patient's rights are fulfilled
Social Worker
Vanderbilt Adult University Hospital Emergency Department Trauma
Nashville, Tennessee
01.2019 - 07.2021
- End of life notification with the Emergency Department Medical Physician to family members
- Crisis intervention counseling to patients and/or family members in response to death, traumas, accidents, suicides, and injuries
- Conducted safety assessment, provided resources/ referrals and worked closely with local law enforcement agencies and Vanderbilt University Police department with Victims of violent crime, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sexual assault and physical assault patients
- Substance Abuse Misuse counseling, referrals and resources
- Arranged transportation for the Emergency Room discharged or transfer patients
Therapist
Pandora’s Awakening
Madison, Tennessee
06.2020 - 06.2021
- Private practice clinician providing individual and couples therapy with issues of mental health, addiction, and adjustment
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program
Meharry Medical College
Nashville, Tennessee
09.2016 - 09.2018
- Instrumental in the establishment of the Meharry Community Wellness Center’s new HOPWA Supportive Service Program: Upstarting the program with creating of all forms to ensure compliance and quality assurance of the HOPWA guidelines
- Assessed HIV positive patient’s needs relate to homelessness prevention and maintain stable housing
- Functioned as an advocate for patients and liaison between patients and agencies and community services
- Provided linkage, referrals, application assistance and appointment to community resource
- Supervised the preparation and maintenance of current resources of agencies and community services
- Maintained complete records of all patient’s casework, inquiries, and requests to ensure compliance with HOPWA’s policies and procedures
- Assisted the Meharry Medical College Grants and Contract division in the preparation of fiscal reports
- Provided administrative supervision to the Medical Housing Case Manager
Director-The Peer Linkage and Re-engagement Intervention of Women of Color
Meharry Medical College
Nashville, Tennessee
09.2016 - 09.2018
- Supervised the creation of a monthly eligible list of identified patients who are lost to care
- Provided administrative supervision to the treatment adherence counselors, research data manager and mental health specialist
- Engaged newly diagnose HIV positive women to primary care treatment
- Facilitated intervention team and case conferencing meetings with the treatment adherence counselor, clinical supervisor, medical case managers, and clinical providers
- Assisted data manager with the implementation and monitoring of the evaluation plan, ensuring timely data collection
- Determined long-term strategic alliances with external partners and maintain program collaborative relationships
Social Worker II- Screening, Brief Intervention, Treatment and Referral (SBIRT project)
Meharry Medical College
Nashville, Tennessee
07.2012 - 08.2016
- Assisted in the development and implementation of a psychosocial services program to assist patients and their families with problems related to medical, behavioral, environmental, and social well-being
- Administered the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT), PHQ-4, and the Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST) instruments to identify patients of the Internal Medicine Clinic at Nashville General Hospital
- Provided Brief Intervention and Brief Treatment to patients using Motivational Interviewing (MI)
- Made appropriate treatment referrals for patients with substance use disorders
- Participated in internal staff, State of Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services meetings and training
- Provided bi-monthly reports to the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
Medical Care Manager/Program Coordinator
Meharry Medical College
Nashville, Tennessee
09.2006 - 07.2012
- Assisted uninsured immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients to improve health outcomes, by obtaining adequate access to outpatient related Ryan White Programs for medical, medication and dental services
- Identified, managed, and tracked all medical claim denials for patients and ambulatory clinic
- Developed and implemented individual care plans to assure patients’ psychosocial and socioeconomic needs are addressed
- Enrolled patients into Pharmaceutical Companies patient assistance programs and Charitable Pharmacy programs to ensure medications are received
- Provided individual and their families with medication adherence counseling, disease acceptance and understanding
- Collaborated with hospital social services/case management department and medical staff with the coordination of care and discharge planning for hospitalized patients
- Coordinated Consumer and Community Advisory Board meeting
- Participate in outreach and continuum educational trainings on prevention and cultural awareness for diverse clients who are homeless, GLBTQ, youth, adults and geriatric
- Conflict Management Strategies
- Coordinated activities of programs through ordering medical and office supplies; prepare Medical Director’s travel and resolves matters with vendors to ensure bills incurred by the clinic are resolved
- Prepared monthly fiscal and quarterly implementation reports to United Way and Tennessee of State Health Department
Social Worker
Rolling Hills Psychiatric Hospital
Franklin, Tennessee
04.2012 - 07.2016
- Provided psychotherapeutic services to all patient populations- mental health and co-occurring disorder patients and their families
- Facilitated process-oriented groups and psychoeducational groups
- Provided appropriate crisis intervention as necessary
Timeline
Case Manager
Ascension Saint Thomas Rehabilitation Hospital
01.2023 - Current
Therapist
Pandora’s Awakening
06.2020 - 06.2021
Social Worker
Vanderbilt Adult University Hospital Emergency Department Trauma
01.2019 - 07.2021
Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS (HOPWA) Program
Meharry Medical College
09.2016 - 09.2018
Director-The Peer Linkage and Re-engagement Intervention of Women of Color
Meharry Medical College
09.2016 - 09.2018
Case Manager II
Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital
01.2016 - Current
Social Worker II- Screening, Brief Intervention, Treatment and Referral (SBIRT project)
Meharry Medical College
07.2012 - 08.2016
Social Worker
Rolling Hills Psychiatric Hospital
04.2012 - 07.2016
Medical Care Manager/Program Coordinator
Meharry Medical College
09.2006 - 07.2012
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