Patient Flow Specialist

IU Health • Bloomington, IN

3d • Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for coordinating consult, admission, transfer, and pre-operative activities. The Patient Flow Specialist also manages the traffic control of new patients to the facility by facilitating communication between providers. Additional duties include coordinating team and call schedules, managing weekend assignments and admission orders, answering patient call lines for post-discharge needs, assigning new business to appropriate teams, and calculating the daily census.

Requirements

• High School diploma or equivalent is required.
• Requires the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with business partners.
• Requires strong interpersonal skills to collaborate with all levels of staff; including physicians, hospital administration, patients, and nursing staff in a professional manner.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience working in an admitting, bed management, patient placement/throughput setting, including demographic and financial requirements of payers preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for coordinating all consult, admission, transfer and/or pre-op activities.
• Responsible for traffic control of new patients to the facility by facilitating communication between providers.
• Ensure that the team and call schedules are coordinated and communicated to all appropriate parties.
• Coordinate weekend assignments and admission order.
• Answer patient call line assisting patients and families with post discharge needs.
• Assign new business to appropriate teams from overnight business and add assigned teams in Cerner.
• Calculate daily census.

Benefits

• Access to many diverse opportunities to learn and develop in meaningful ways that matter most to you, such as advanced clinical training, leadership development, promotion opportunities and cross training development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED