Patient Management Rep. 7pm-7am/weekends

Job description

To coordinate and prioritize patient flow activity throughout the hospital by registering patients and assigning inpatients to beds via electronic bed board. Patient Care: Under direction of a Registered Nurse, coordinates patient placement process by accurately and efficiently assigning beds to patients and ensuring that all physician requested patient beds are filled in a timely manner. Determines bed availability for transferring patients, develops priorities for bed assignments, and maintains electronic bed board in an effort to facilitate the efficient operation of the admitting process. - Placing patients into beds using clinical information, physician preference and each unit's admission discharge criteria. - Assigning beds to patients transferring in and out of critical care units. - Entering bed assignments into bed tracking system. - Monitoring bed status and upgrades bed via electronic bed tracking systems to expedite patients' admission to a clean bed. - Communicates with appropriate departments with notification of patient transfers to and from different units. - Assigns appropriate health plan to patient visit. Maintains a good working knowledge of the health plans an...