Bed Management Coordinator, Full Time, Nights 7p-7a, Atlantic Health Clinical Operations Center

Atlantic Health; Florham Park (NJ); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlantic Health is seeking a Bed Management Coordinator to optimize bed assignments across its facilities in Florham Park, NJ. You will collaborate with nursing, admissions, ED, PACU, and the Centralized Clinical Operations Center to ensure timely placements and accurate bed status updates using EPIC ADT.

Responsibilities include tracking bed availability, coordinating downtimes, and ensuring isolation requirements are observed.

Responsibilities

• Assist units with transfers and discharges as needed.
• Update/process admissions per guidelines.
• Use EPIC ADT to update bed status and patient types.
• Track bed assignments and bed availability.
• Coordinate downtime processes and isolation status considerations.
• Coordinate patient placements across Atlantic Medical Centers in the Centralized Clinical Operations Center.
• Consult Infection Prevention on cohorting isolation patients and isolation status questions.
• Adhere to Infection Prevention policies for placement of isolation patients.

Job description

Effectively works with units and the multidisciplinary team to assure timely and appropriate bed assignments.

Assists units with transfers and discharges as needed.

Update/process all hospital admissions as directed and in accordance with the admission process, unit based and departmental guidelines.

Use of EPIC ADT systems, Change patient types. Update Bed Manager or designee, Nursing supervisor, Emergency room, PACU, SDS and direct admission physician or designee and/or patient of bed availability.

Track bed assignments and bed availability.

Ensure timely assignments and prepare to implement downtime process at all times.

Appropriately place all patients paying special attention to isolation status, gender and additional circumstances and information that affect the plan for bed placement.

Consult Infection Prevention for opportunities to cohort isolation patients and questions about patients’ isolation status.

Adhere to Infection Prevention policy and procedure for placement of isolation patients.

Acts as a problem solver and facilitates transfer between floors.

Adhere to departmental procedures including the process to admit a patient. Have the ability to manage patient placements for all Atlantic Medical Centers in the Centralized Clinical Operations Center.