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Munson Healthcare
Traverse City, Michigan

Nurse Navigator - Elmwood Primary Care

Registered NurseNo weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

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Job Description

  • Company Description
  • Location: 921 W. Front Street, Traverse City, MI
  • Schedule: Full Time: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
  • More Than Just Care, It’s Community

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.

If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material.

To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You

Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance.

Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.

Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges.

Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

Job Description

A Day in the Life

The navigator functions in an organized and time conscious manner using effective customer service and interpersonal skills at all times.

The Nurse Navigator will act as a liaison between patients, professional staff and physicians by providing care management and care coordination for adult and pediatric patients, with complex conditions, with complex social needs, and education needs.

Serves in an expanded health care role to collaborate with primary care providers, specialists, members of the health care team, and patients/families to ensure the delivery of quality, efficient, and cost-effective health care services.

Assesses plans, implements, coordinates, monitors and evaluates all options and services with the goal of optimizing the patient’s health status and decreasing hospital and emergency room utilization.

Integrates evidence-based clinical guidelines and protocols, in the development of individualized care plans that are patient-centric, promoting quality and efficiency in the delivery of health care

Qualifications

What’s Required

  • Currently licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan.
  • Bachelor of Science degree in nursing preferred.
  • Minimum 5 years experience as an RN is highly preferred.
  • Additional Information

Are you Munson Material? Apply today!

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.

Shift: Day Shift

Status: Full Time

Key Responsibilities

The Nurse Navigator acts as a liaison between patients, physicians, and staff to provide comprehensive care management and coordination for patients with complex needs. They assess, plan, and implement individualized care plans to optimize patient health status and reduce hospital utilization.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
5+ years of experience

Key Skills

Patient advocacyEvidence-based practiceCare planningHealth assessmentPatient educationCollaborationResource coordination

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Nurse Navigator - Elmwood Primary Care at Munson Healthcare a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Registered Nurse roles — ranked against 6,062 active Registered Nurse roles listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Primary Care — Registered Nurse Career Context

Of the 50 active Registered Nurse listings this role was benchmarked against, 24% are remote, 64% have no call, 78% require no weekends.

Registered Nurse pay on WeekdayDoc is up 6.4% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Michigan is 96.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.8% of Michigan clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

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401k / retirement match
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
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CME allowance
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Work-life snapshot

median 3.9this job 6.4
Better work-life than 80% of Registered Nurse roles listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,062 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No weekends
  • No nights

Living in Traverse City

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$441k
Typical market rent
$1,888/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.4
State income tax
Up to 4.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Traverse City, MI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Munson Healthcare

Hospitals and Health Care
Traverse City, MI
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Tuition Reimbursement
Paid Holidays
Generous PTO
Employee Discounts
Free Individual Retirement Counseling
Free Wellness Platform