PATIENT CARE SECRETARY - Lauderdale Lakes

Job description

Description Hours: Monday to Friday - 8am to 5pm Bilingual English / Spanish Preferred: Summary & Objective: The Secretary, Patient Care provides clerical support to patient care teams. Essential Functions: - Evaluate and insure accuracy in the preparation of documentation. - Maintain files and other information in an organized manner to insure follow-up and timely completion of assignments given by the Manager, Clinical Care. - Produce and provide Team Manager with various reports each morning in preparation for the manager’s staffing meeting - Obtains physician signatures on orders from physicians outside of Catholic Hospice. - Establishes, maintains and closes patient charts in an orderly fashion. This may include but is not limited to the mailing of and follow-up on all required documentation, such as verbal orders Medical record requests, Plans of Care. - Prints Cell -Trak reports daily to facilitate the Team Manger’s ability to approve time sheets. - Orders equipment and/or ambulances for patients as directed by Team Manager. - Pages team with relevant information about patients such as new admissions, discharges, etc. - Maintains admission and certification tracking log. - C...