Blood Donation Eligibility Specialist - Dayton

This is an on-site position out of our Dayton office - 349 S Main St, Dayton, OH 45402.

Versiti is a fusion of donors, scientific curiosity, and precision medicine that recognize the gifts of blood and life are precious. We are home to the world-renowned Blood Research Institute, we enable life saving gifts from our donors, and provide the science behind the medicine through our diagnostic laboratories. Versiti brings together outstanding minds with unparalleled experience in transfusion medicine, transplantation, stem cells and cellular therapies, oncology and genomics, diagnostic lab services, and medical and scientific expertise.

This combination of skill and knowledge results in improved patient outcomes, higher quality services and reduced cost of care for hospitals, blood centers, hospital systems, research and educational institutions, and other health care providers. At Versiti, we are passionate about improving the lives of patients and helping our healthcare partners thrive.

The position exists to manage donor eligibility status and to perform processes that follow from that status resulting in a critical layer of safety between unsuitable donations and recipients. Objectives include counseling donors regarding all aspects of eligibility, processes of health history deferral management, resolution of eligibility issues, post donation information, abnormal test follow up, lookback, recipient tracing, and re-entry, and donor incident (injury/reaction) follow up.

A near perfect degree of completeness and accuracy is expected, as well as attention to detail, self-motivation, and prioritization skill sets. The incumbent works individually, but also within a group to coordinate the accomplishment of all daily tasks; and participates in peer-review second checks.

Schedule

• Monday through Friday, business hours
• In-office role

Benefits
Versiti provides a comprehensive benefits package based on your job classification. Full-time regular employes are eligible for Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans, Paid Time Off (PTO) and Holidays, Short- and Long-term disability, life insurance, 7% match dollar for dollar 401(k), voluntary programs, discount programs, others.

• Counsel donors regarding the significance of their infectious disease testing results as well as their reason for health history deferrals; i.e., positive test results for HIV, HCV, HBV, Syphilis, HTLV, Chagas, West Nile Virus, Babesia, etc.; high risk behaviors for relevant transfusion transmitted disease, and other testing and pertinent health history issues related to donor and recipient safety.
• Process daily health history deferrals as well as deferrals stemming from recruitment, website, donor calls, ineligible appointment reports, apheresis, special collections, etc. If not automated, deferral entry or termination, including code selection, accurate time frames, succinct entry of reason comments if needed, and additional donor notification/education as needed.
• Initiate and complete post-donation-information cases resulting from daily health history deferrals, donor callbacks, or other sources which encompass donor acceptability and donation suitability tasks, including taking control of available products, lookback, and recall to interdict unsuitable components ensuring these products are properly disposed and not made available for patients.
• When called upon by other departments, assist with obtaining or clarifying health history to establish release or discard of collected donations and donor eligibility for donation
• Perform duties related to abnormal test findings: monitoring/updating deferrals, succinct entry of reason comments, ordering, monitoring for and entry of additional test results if needed, lookback for potentially available prior products, required notifications to donor/MD/Health department, recipient tracing, etc. Tests include standard infectious disease panel, hemoglobin screening, rare red cell donors, red blood cell antibodies, Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) antibody screening, abnormal platelet and white blood cell counts, etc.
• Request testing and perform reentry of donor with prior non-confirmed test results when eligible.
• Perform duties related to donor incident follow up including contacting donors, advising on suitable follow up, entry of data into appropriate software, etc. Escalating case to Supervisor of Donor Incidents or medical director when needed.
• Ensure donors are eligible or deferred, and products are released or discarded according to regulations, donor eligibility, and Versiti policy when performing deferral, post donation information, quarantine disposition, test result lookback, reentry and transfusion investigation tasks.
• Other duties as assigned, such as electronic case work entry, investigating returned mail, record management, filing, copying/faxing/emailing etc.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties in this job classification
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