Bed Management Coordinator

Compensation Pay Range

Minimum Offer $16.63 Maximum Offer $24.71

9521 San Mateo NE Albuquerque, NM

Build your Career. Make a Difference. Presbyterian is hiring a skilled Bed Management Coordinator
. Type of Opportunity:
Full time. Job Exempt:
No. Job is based:
Reverend Hugh Cooper Administrative Center.

Work Shift:

Varied Days and Hours (United States of America).

Now Hiring:
Bed Management Coordinator

Presbyterian is seeking a skilled Bed Management Coordinator to be responsible for patient throughput and flow coordination in collaboration with the nursing bed coordinator and/or hospital supervisor, and entry of all admission, discharge and transfer (ADT) activity in EPIC at Presbyterian and Kaseman Hospitals. The bed controller is also responsible for interacting with medical staff within the system and those referring patients to Presbyterian, ensuring patients are admitting at the appropriate admission status, ensuring accommodation codes are accurate in Medipac, and escalating issues negatively impacting patient flow through the proper channels.

Some key responsibilities include:

• Deploys programmatic development and revision of Bed Management Center at Presbyterian and Kaseman Hospitals. Implements the hospitals mission, philosophies, goals, standards, policies and procedures related to patient flow and throughput. Makes independent decisions related to placement of patients
• Identifies and resolves issues affecting patient throughput or access at Presbyterian and Kaseman Hospitals
• Interacts with internal and external customers to facilitate appropriate placement of patients and optimize access to hospital resources.
• Assists in processing and resolution of interdepartmental and internal operational issues related to bed management and patient throughput.
• Provides clerical and/or secretarial duties.
• Accesses and enters patient information from computerized system in order to direct clients and customers.
• Assists Nursing Supervisors and other clinical leadership with information to manage the hospitals Capacity Management Plan
• Functions as a customer service representative to referring facility physicians and staff, patients and families all internal customers such as physicians, nurses
• Performs primary admission functions for Presbyterian, Kaseman, and Rio Rancho facilities including admitting, changing patient status, discharging, transferring
• Provides and/or coordinates technical support for bed management and admitting software systems
• Provides coverage for Staffing Coordinator in their absence
• Provide dispatcher oversight of daily Transport Department operations through the use of the automated transport system

• High school diploma, strong computer skills, successful completion of Medipac competency training, medical terminology or class within 3 months and one to three years of experience in customer service required.

All benefits-eligible Presbyterian employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, short‑term and long‑term disability, group term life insurance and other optional voluntary benefits.

Presbyterian's Employee Wellness rewards program is designed to provide you with engaging opportunities to enhance your health and activate your well‑being. Earn gift cards and more by taking an active role in our personal well‑being by participating in wellness activities like wellness challenges, webinar, preventive screening and more.

As an organization, we are committed to improving the health of our communities. From hosting growers' markets to partnering with local communities, Presbyterian is taking active steps to improve the health of New Mexicans.

Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not‑for‑profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi‑specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1,600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.

Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug‑free and tobacco‑free employer with smoke‑free campuses.