Transfer Center Coordinator

Lehigh Valley Health Network - 2024 Lehigh Street - Responsibilities:
Coordinates, prioritizes, and optimizes patient flow activities using critical thinking and prioritizing patient placement based on the most critical to the least critical patients.;
Serves as the primary contact for referring physicians requesting the services for continued patient care.;
Monitors and assesses bed availability to ensure timely placement and determines whom to accept and/or place in the appropriate accommodations.;
Collaborates with other departments for inpatient lateral transfers to ensure admission criteria are met, admit numbers are obtained prior to facility acceptance and transfer.;
Transcribes interactions on calls and documentation on transfers by the end of the shift.