Health Unit Coordinator HUC

Health Unit Coordinator (HUC) -

Job Type: FT

Schedule: Days

Qualifications and Requirements:

Health Unit Coordinator is an administrative professional responsible for managing the flow of information and clerical tasks within a busy department, ensuring efficient operations and effective communication among the medical team, patients, and families. Key responsibilities include coordinating patient admissions, transfers, and discharges, maintaining and organizing medical records and electronic health records (EHRs), managing unit supplies and equipment, and serving as a central point of communication by answering phones, relaying messages, and scheduling diagnostic tests.

This role requires strong organizational, multitasking, critical-thinking, and customer service skills, along with familiarity with medical terminology.

• Communication Hub
• Unit Management
• Support for Staff
  • Provide clerical and administrative support to nurses and other medical professionals.
  • Ensure unit operations run smoothly by managing data and maintaining a clean, orderly work environment.
  • Manage and reorder medical supplies and equipment for the unit.
  • Schedule diagnostic tests, procedures, and appointments for patients.
  • Assist with preparing insurance forms and other administrative documents.
  • Answer and screen incoming telephone calls and take messages.
  • Relay physician orders, test results, and patient status updates to appropriate staff.
  • Act as a go-between for the medical staff, patients, and their families, answering administrative questions.
  • Coordinate and document patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
  • Assemble, organize, and maintain patient medical charts and electronic health records (EHRs).
  • Record and relay information between patients, families, and the medical team.

• Shift differential
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, plus flexible-spending and health-savings accounts
• Competitive paid time off and extended illness bank package for full-time employees
• Income-protection programs, such as life, accident, critical-injury insurance, short- and long-term disability, and identity theft coverage
• Tuition reimbursement, loan assistance, and 401(k) matching
• Employee assistance program, including mental, physical, and financial wellness
• Professional development and growth opportunities

"Community Medical Centeris an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Community Medical Center is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment."