Health coach vs public health representative

Differences between health coach and public health representative duties and responsibilities

Health coach example responsibilities.

• Participate in workshops and offer lectures on various health topics, aim toward prevention and management of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
• Motivate staff to participate in lunch time yoga and strength training exercises as well as cooking demos and office nutrition trivia.
• Promote, educate and assist individuals in health management including diabetes management, nutrition, stress management and tobacco cessation.
• Obtain CPR certification before the summer program begin.
• Maintain and control all hippa-relate patient documentation via EMR.
• Perform all job duties in compliance with HIPAA guidelines and company confidentiality policies.
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Public health representative example responsibilities.

• Authorize voluntary EAP services and initial outpatient manage care treatment.
• Comply with CMS rules and regulation.
• Develop successful referral program with key physicians' offices for Medicare eligible patients.
• Conduct field investigations and direct observation therapy for persons expose to or infect with tuberculosis.
• Verify eligibility with insurance and confirmed/start authorization for treatment as needed by the requirement of the individual patients plans.
• Design new survey tool using qualitative and quantitative methods to monitor and evaluate quality of immunization programs at county health departments.
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