ROCK SPRINGS — Robin Jenkins has been named the new Director of Care Management at Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County.
Jenkins cites the challenge, the opportunities to use critical thinking skills, and having the honor of helping other human beings when they need it most as the things that have kept her tied to care management at the hospital over the years.
Jenkins will lead a team of seven people, including five case managers, a care transition nurse and a social worker with Sweetwater Dialysis Center.
Jenkins said care management is a collaboration of the entire multidisciplinary team within the hospital. The care management team evaluates and coordinates services and resources for a patient so they can be safely discharged back into their home or to another facility.
“All the while, we’re advocating for the patient,” Jenkins said. “We help them manage their healthcare. Patients have a right to self-determination in their care. We have to be an advocate for that patient, particularly when people have different ideas of what might be best. In the end, it’s what the patient wants.”
MHSC Chief Nursing Officer Ann Clevenger said she could not be more pleased to have Jenkins at the helm.
“Robin brings a wealth of experience to the role of Director of Care Management,” Clevenger said. “Robin has worked for MHSC in multiple roles for over 34 years. Robin’s attention to detail, compassion, and expertise in assisting patients in their care needs has and will benefit our patients and the community.”
Jenkins has worked at the hospital since 1987, starting as a surgical floor nurse. She helped work on the “utilization review” that was initiated in 1989, a requirement by Medicare and insurance companies outlining criteria for keeping a patient in the hospital and a discharge review.
Jenkins received her License of Practical Nursing Degree, Registered Nurse Degree and Associate’s Degree from Western Wyoming Community College. She earned a Bachelor of Nursing Degree in 2015 from the University of Wyoming.
She also has earned Accredited Case Manager Certification.
For more on this and all that Sweetwater Memorial has to offer, go to sweetwatermemorial.com.
