SURGICAL SERVICES MATERIALS COORDINATOR

UHS•Reno, NV

About The Position

Sierra Medical Center is part of Northern Nevada Health System, a regional multi-facility system that has excelled at offering quality care to residents of the greater Truckee Meadows. Sierra Medical Center is a 170-bed acute care hospital offering services including 24/7 ER care, cardiology, oncology, labor and delivery, level II NICU, surgical and orthopedic services, and much more. Learn more at northernnevadahealth.com What we at Sierra Medical Center value: • Compassion: We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family. • Empathy: We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch. • Teamwork: We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives. • Quality: We strive to provide excellence in clinical care. • Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards. • Respect: We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone. • Service Excellence: We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve. • Innovation: We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care Learn more at northernnevadahealth.com This Surgical Services Materials Management Coordinator opportunity is full time, offers full benefits and a convenient day shift schedule. We are looking for a dynamic individual to maintain and troubleshoot all information systems that are used to provide operational support, scheduling, inventory and charging in Surgical Services; and to provide the financial and analytical skills.

Requirements

Associates degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Business Management, Nursing or equivalent work experience.
1 to 3 years of experience providing system admin functions for an information system.
1 to 3 years of experience working in a Surgery Department, either in inventory, purchasing or scheduling.

Responsibilities

Coordinates orders of medical supplies in collaboration with the clinical lead staff, etc.
Acts as the primary liaison with vendors to ensure availability and contracted pricing is met.
Reviews the next weeks schedule daily to ensure any needed special order items are available for surgical cases; coordinated special order items with the board runner.
Develops and maintains a process to provide a daily audit between HSS/Cerner and Financial systems; obtains CDM numbers when needed; works with Coordinator and Materials Management Surgery Buyer to perform ongoing maintenance and improvements to the CDM and facilitates the inclusion of new products and prices in the CDM.
Provides regular reporting including OR case volume, block time utilization, case mix and procedure.