Veterinary Patient Care Coordinator
About The Position
BluePearl Pet Hospital is seeking an experienced Patient Care Coordinator to join our state-of-the-art emergency and specialty hospital. This pay band is a starting point and is dependent on experience and advancement through our competency leveling system. As a Patient Care Coordinator, you will act as a liaison between the front and back of the hospital by facilitating client/patient flow between the waiting room, exam rooms, CSR staff, and clinical staff, triaging medical phone calls, coordinating client/doctor communication, and performing ER visit follow-up calls for both locations. Evening, weekend, and holiday work may be required as part of the normal workweek.
Requirements
- Experience in a veterinary hospital is required
Responsibilities
- Monitor the waiting/exam room clients; assist with refreshments/marketing materials; update clients on wait time/patient status
- Maintain open communication with the doctor and technical staff to minimize wait times and maximize patient flow regarding long wait times
- Coordinate patient flow between multiple specialties
- Manage Cornerstone hospital census
- Facilitate discharge appointments for all services
- Perform patient discharges in coordination with the technical team
- Manage patient discharge/visit board and exam rooms; ensure comfortable and timely visits & discharges
- Check ER doctor message bin and triage messages for doctors; facilitate solutions for clients
- Receive and address patient care telephone calls from the general public
- Call previous day's ER clients for follow-up feedback for both locations
Benefits
- Trupanion pet insurance and discounts to our associates for pet treatments, procedures, and food.
- Our associates are leveled by their skillset and move up in level as they gain more skills and experience. We are focused on developing our associates into leaders through talent development programs and leadership workshops. As a member of Mars Veterinary Health, our associates have endless opportunities to advance in their career.
- We offer annual continuing education allowance, free continuing education sessions, our own BluePearl University for training, and our clinicians have access to over 2,000 medical journals.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options.
- Parental leave benefits
- Flexible work schedules
- 401k and retirement planning
- Time to reset, rewind, and reflect through our paid time off and floating holiday plans
- A regional licensed social worker who can provide guidance, advice, and tips/tricks on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle while working in a fast-paced emergency and specialty care environment
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
