The Care Continuum Manager: a nursing career built on staying with patients

Ask most licensed vocational nurses where they work and you’ll hear about nursing homes and hospitals. That’s where the jobs have been. In the U.S., 37% of LVNs work in nursing and residential care facilities and 16% in hospitals, against 12% in home health care.¹ At HealthView, LVNs work across home health, hospice and palliative care, and some of them do a job most nurses haven’t heard of: Care Continuum Manager.

The job market for nurses

Nursing isn’t short of open doors. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects about 180,800 openings a year for registered nurses through 2035, with employment growing 6%, faster than the average for all occupations.² For LVNs, it projects about 51,800 openings a year and 3% growth, about as fast as average.¹ Many of those openings come from nurses changing careers or retiring. For a nurse choosing a job, that means real options, and the choice comes down to the kind of work and the team.

What the care continuum means here

HealthView runs home health, palliative care and hospice as one organization across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. A patient can start with home health after a hospital stay, move to palliative care during a serious illness, and later choose hospice, and the organization caring for them stays the same. Our mission is two words, We stay., and it points both ways: we stay with our patients, and we stay with our people.

Continuity like that doesn’t happen on its own. Someone has to hold the thread between the hospital, the doctors, the assisted living community, the family and our own teams. At HealthView, that’s the Care Continuum Manager.

What a Care Continuum Manager does

The work falls into three parts.

• Coordinating care plans. Building and managing plans that keep a patient’s care at home safe and appropriate, working with families and assisted living communities, keeping documentation current and making sure every required form is complete and easy to find.
• Being the point of contact. The person providers, patients, families and community staff can all reach, so everyone hears the same thing and nobody falls through a gap.
• Watching the whole picture. Following the patient’s condition and needs over time and adjusting so care stays consistent across services.

It’s still nursing. The clinical judgment that tells an LVN when a patient isn’t right is the same judgment that tells a Care Continuum Manager when a plan needs to change before something goes wrong.

Who does it

Victor Rodriguez and Pamela Cuento, both LVNs, work in the role today. Victor was named to the Frontline Honors class of 2024 by Home Health Care News for his work in home health.³

The job asks for the skills good LVNs already use every shift: clear and kind communication, close attention to detail, and the ability to keep many patients and tasks moving at once.

How hiring works

Nurses and nursing assistants have their own application. Everyone else, from therapists to chaplains, uses the general one. Full time, part time and per diem all work for nurses, aides, therapists, social workers and chaplains. Then there are six steps:

• Apply. A short form and your resume, a few minutes.
• Phone screening. A quick call about the role and your experience.
• Phone interview. A longer conversation about the role and how you like to work.
• In-person interview. At our office in Cerritos.
• Offer. Verbal and written, then a background check and references.
• Paid orientation. Policies, skills testing, visit supplies, training on the medical record system, and shadowing until you’re ready to see patients on your own.

What it’s like to work here

We measure it every year with an anonymous survey by Great Place To Work. In 2026, 98% of our people said HealthView is a great place to work, compared with 57% at a typical U.S. company.⁴ Every person surveyed said management is approachable and easy to talk to.⁴