Admissions Clerk

Join the Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) team as an Admissions Clerk and help provide efficient and courteous registration, transfer, and discharge of patients.

The Admissions Clerk is responsible for efficient and courteous registration, transfer, and discharge of patients.

• Serve as general receptionist for the hospital, greeting patients and visitors in person or by phone in a courteous manner.
• Provide general information concerning the hospital and/or patient's condition in accordance with hospital guidelines and secure signatures on documents if required.
• Operate communication system placing and answering telephone calls, paging or contacting staff, keeping appropriate records, and assisting in locating patient’s families.
• Determine patient’s needs by admitting to hospital or referring to appropriate facility and escort patient to proper area or arrange for transportation.
• Maintain a roster of inpatients by names, bed number and religious preference, report daily on admissions and discharges, maintain elective admission schedule and contact patients when rooms are available.
• Prepare all necessary records relating to admission, payment, and discharge of patient.
• Pull patient charts, maintain appointment schedules, handle money, retain custody of hospital keys as required.
• Assist patients in and out of vehicles when necessary.
• Operate various office equipment.
• Perform cashier duties; e.g. receipts of payment and issuance of receipts.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
• Must operate routine office machines, including but not limited to postage meter, typewriter, display terminal and terminal printing, adding machine and copy machine, fax machine, medifax machine and communications system.
• Must type 30 words per minute accurately.
• Experience in dealing with public is desired.
• Three (3) to six (6) months on-the-job training is required to attain proficiency of performance of assigned duties and responsibilities.

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Education and Training
• Hospitals and Health Care (Industry)