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Marian Regional Medical Center
Santa Maria, California

RN CASE MANAGER

Registered Nurse Above average in Case Management (RN)No callFull-Time

Listed compensation

$51.5-$72.25/hr

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Employment & setting
Full-Time
Call expectations
No call
Weekends
Not specified
Posted 52m ago · Verified live

Job Description

Where You’ll Work

Founded in 1940, Dignity Health - Marian Regional Medical Center is a 191-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Maria, California. Serving over 250,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, cancer care, orthopedics, and stroke care. Additionally, Marian Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and the only healthcare facility on the Central Coast to offer ECMO.

One Community. One Mission. One California

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Case Manager RN, you will coordinate the care and services of patients across the continuum of illness; promote effective utilization; monitor health care resources; and assume a leadership role with the interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal outcomes through the tools of case management.

Every day you will perform a wide variety of high-level patient care activities to include admission assessment, screen for appropriateness, and development of a discharge plan. Timely and appropriate discharges will be accomplished by evaluating the patient's post-discharge needs and the provision of services necessary to meet those needs.

  • To be successful in this role you must be knowledgeable in community resources and alternate care facilities.
  • Utilizes the nursing process to provide safe therapeutic care for patients
  • Assessment, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, Diagnosis

Assists with coordination of patient-care activities/scheduling. Collaborates/cooperates to assure effective consistent management of clients.

  • Works collaboratively with patient and family to obtain desired patient outcomes.
  • Obtains all required physician orders, TARs, and authorizations for all services.
  • Provides patient and family teaching necessary to meet the needs of the patient and family.
  • Job Requirements
  • Required
  • Minimum of One (1) year of RN experience
  • Registered Nurse: CA RN License
  • Basic Life Support - CPR (BLS-CPR) within 30 days
  • Driver's License: CA (AUTO: CA)
  • Auto Insurance (AUTO-INS)
  • Preferred
  • Hospice or Home Health experience

Key Responsibilities

The Case Manager RN coordinates patient care across the continuum of illness and monitors healthcare resources to achieve optimal outcomes. They perform admission assessments, develop discharge plans, and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to ensure effective patient management.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least one year of RN experience and hold a valid California RN license. A Basic Life Support (BLS-CPR) certification is also required within 30 days of hire.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Patient assessmentDischarge planningUtilization reviewInterdisciplinary collaborationPatient educationCommunity resource coordinationCare coordinationHospice care

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates RN CASE MANAGER at Marian Regional Medical Center a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Case Management (RN) — ranked against 1,355 active Case Management (RN) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.

Case Management — Registered Nurse Career Context

Of the 40 active Nurse Case Manager listings this role was benchmarked against, 35% are remote, 48% have no call, 73% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$129k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $116k in an average-cost state. 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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CME allowance
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Work-life snapshot

6.1/ 10
Listing-based score

Above average in Case Management (RN)

  • No call

Living in Santa Maria

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$644k
Typical market rent
$2,537/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
108.8
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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