Clinical Procedure Card Services Analyst

Intermountain Health; Grand Junction (CO); On-site; USD 49,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Healthcare Inc. in Grand Junction, CO, invites a Procedure Card Analyst to standardize and optimize operating room cards across designated sites. You will collaborate with physicians and perioperative leadership to ensure content aligns with safety standards, clinical guidelines, and cost-saving goals.

Using Tableau and Epic OpTime, you will monitor data quality, drive content improvements, and support onboarding of new providers within the perioperative team.

Qualifications

• AA degree in nursing or surgical tech program; equivalent experience.
• Maintain current license or certification as required.
• Extensive acute operating room experience as a scrub tech or RN across service lines.
• Experience with physician procedure cards and OR equipment, meds, and supplies.

Responsibilities

• Oversee procedure card management to enhance patient safety, clinician satisfaction, and perioperative efficiency.
• Analyze incomplete data to clearly define issues and prioritize long-term solutions.
• Craft targeted communications to stakeholders to ensure accountability and feedback.
• Coordinate updates with OR staff and surgeons to streamline cards and case categories.
• Collaborate with perioperative supply chain to optimize inventory and product conversions.
• Onboard new providers and ensure cards are built for their cases.

Skills

Communication

Clinical Knowledge

Leadership

Facilitation

Taking Initiative

Accountability

Organization

Education

Associate degree in Nursing

Graduate of a surgical technology program

Tools

Tableau

Epic OpTime

Cerner

ERP Systems

Job description

Job Description:The Procedure Card Analyst maintains, standardizes, and analyzes operating room procedure cards across designated care sites, focusing on optimizing card content—equipment, instruments, medications, supplies, and procedure standardization—with timely updates and revisions. Collaborating with physicians and perioperative leadership, the Analyst ensures content aligns with patient safety, clinical standards, and cost-saving objectives, while working with the Perioperative Supply Chain to maintain accurate supply data. Through qualitative and quantitative process improvements, the Analyst upholds IH standards, vision, and guiding principles, leading efforts to standardize and centralize key operational functions, mitigating compliance issues, supporting stewardship, and facilitating business platform implementation. Maintaining clean procedure card data enhances caregiver and physician satisfaction, improves patient safety, optimizes working capital, and increases labor efficiency.Essential FunctionsProcedure Card Management: Oversees procedure card management to enhance patient safety, clinician satisfaction, and perioperative efficiency while reducing waste, errors, and uncredentialed usage through strict standardization and maintenance best practices.Decision Making: Analyzes incomplete data to clearly define issues and integrate diverse perspectives. Prioritizes long-term, structured solutions and allocates resources for innovative, preventive measures while knowing when to act alone or consult with others.Leadership Communication & Skills: Crafts targeted communication strategies for various stakeholders to ensure accountability and deliver constructive feedback. Aligns departmental actions with care site and IH strategic goals, fostering positive HR practices through mentoring, performance management, and coaching.Management & Sustainment: Oversees daily updates to ensure accurate card content (equipment, instruments, supplies, positioning devices, and physician accreditation). Coordinates timely card updates and utilizes quality assurance tools and ServiceNow to maintain transparency and responsiveness.Procedure Card Analysis: Regularly monitors and analyzes data with Tableau, Epic OpTime, and other platforms to ensure clinical data integrity and uncover standardization opportunities. Conducts periodic reviews and annual physician examinations to benchmark performance and enhance patient safety.Physician Onboarding & Collaboration: Coordinates initial contact and onboarding for new providers, ensuring procedure cards are built for their cases. Partners with OR staff and surgeons to update cards, streamline case categories, and drive content improvement.Perioperative Supply Chain Support: Meets weekly with the supply chain team to coordinate product conversions, update DPCs, validate Epic inventory data, and optimize supply utilization .OR Support: Attends weekly OR leadership huddles to discuss projects, physician onboarding, and staff education. Provides training on procedure card processes, reviews scheduling reports to catch and resolve errors, and ensures all scheduled cases have the correct cards attached.Skil lsCommunicationClinical KnowledgeLeadershipFacilitationTaking InitiativeAccountabilityOrganizationRequired QualificationsAA Degree of Nursing or Graduate of a surgical technology program or equivalent experience/training requiredMaintain current License or certificationExtensive acute operating room experience as a certified surgical technician or registered nurse across multiple service lines.Demonstrated experience with physician procedure cards; operating room related billing, card maintenance, scheduling, and/or auditing.Demonstrated knowledge/experience with operating room surgical equipment, instruments, positioning devices, medications, and/or supplies. Utilizing ERP for operating room procedure card systems (EPIC OpTime or Cerner preferred).Current Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.Preferred QualificationsBS/BA degree in Nursing or related fieldKnowledge of analytics: Tableau, Excel and EpicKnowledge and deployment of Lean methodologies.Physical RequirementsOngoing need for employee to see and read information, documents, monitors, identify equipment and supplies, and be able to assess customer needs.Frequent interactions with providers and colleagues that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, needs, and issues quickly and accurately.Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use for typing, accessing needed information, etc.May have the same physical requirements as those of clinical or patient care jobs, when the leader takes clinical shiftsLocation:St. Marys Regional HospitalWork City:Grand JunctionWork State:ColoradoScheduled Weekly Hours:40The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.$35.60 - $54.93We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.By applying for a position with Intermountain, I acknowledge that I will comply with all applicable Intermountain policies and expectations. 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