Bed Management Coordinator

Northwell Health; Town of Oyster Bay (NY); On-site; USD 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwell Health in New York seeks a Bed Management Coordinator to oversee intra-hospital bed assignments and ensure seamless communication across departments.

You will collect bed data, coordinate admissions and discharges, collate daily reports from Teletracking, and escalate issues to a registered nurse to maintain patient flow.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• 1-3 years of relevant experience, required.

Responsibilities

• Assigns and facilitates patient bed assignments per hospital patient aggregation.
• Accepts calls from attending physician offices for direct admissions; reviews orders affecting bed placement.
• Collects data for zone alerts (admissions, discharges, bed demand/availability).
• Collates data from Teletracking for daily bed meeting template.
• Escalates bed management problems to a registered nurse.
• Obtains and records information regarding expirations to ensure timely death certificate preparation.
• Performs related duties; all responsibilities are essential functions under the ADA.

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

Coordinates intra-department and intra-hospital transfers, ensuring continuity of all necessary communication between departments.

Job Responsibility

• 1.Assigns and facilitates patient bed assignments according to hospital patient aggregation.
• 2.Accepts phone calls from attending physician offices for direct admissions Reviews specific orders that may impact bed placement (i.e.: one-on-one constant observation, telemetry needs, pending lab specimens, admit orders for medicine teams).
• 3.Collects data for Zone alerts (admissions, discharges, bed demands/availability status of surge units, etc.).
• 4.Collates data from Teletracking to provide information needed for daily bed meeting template.
• 5.Escalates bed management problems to a registered nurse.
• 6.Obtains and records necessary information regarding expirations to ensure accuracy and timely preparation of death certificates.
• 7.Performs related duties as required. All responsibilities noted here are considered essential functions of the job under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Duties not mentioned here, but considered related are not essential functions.

Job Qualification

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• 1-3 years of relevant experience, required.

*Additional Salary Detail

The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).