Clinical Procedure Card Services Analyst

Intermountain Healthcare Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 50,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Intermountain Health in Grand Junction, CO is seeking a Procedure Card Analyst to maintain and standardize operating room cards, collaborating with physicians and perioperative leadership to improve patient safety and efficiency.

You will analyze data in Tableau and Epic OpTime, coordinate card updates with OR staff, and support the perioperative supply chain to optimize inventory and costs. This full-time role offers 40 hours weekly, competitive benefits, and an AI-assisted recruitment process.

Qualifications

• AA or surgical tech program, or equivalent experience.
• Maintain current license or certification.
• Extensive OR experience as CST or RN across multiple service lines.
• Experience with physician procedure cards; OR billing, card maintenance, scheduling, or auditing.
• Knowledge of OR equipment, instruments, positioning devices, medications, and supplies.
• ERP for OR procedure card systems (EPIC OpTime or Cerner preferred).
• Current BLS for healthcare providers.

Responsibilities

• Oversees procedure card management to enhance patient safety, clinician satisfaction, and perioperative efficiency while reducing waste, errors, and uncredentialed usage through standardization.
• Analyzes incomplete data to clearly define issues and integrate diverse perspectives; prioritizes structured solutions and allocates resources.
• Crafts targeted communication strategies for stakeholders to ensure accountability and feedback.
• Oversees daily updates to ensure accurate card content and coordinates timely updates with quality assurance tools and ServiceNow.
• Monitors data with Tableau and Epic OpTime to benchmark performance and enhance patient safety; collaborates with OR staff and surgeons.

Skills

Communication

Clinical Knowledge

Leadership

Facilitation

Initiative

Accountability

Organization

Education

AA nursing or surgical tech program

BS/BA degree

Tools

EPIC OpTime

Cerner

Tableau

Excel

ERP

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 Functions Procedure 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.

Skills Communication Clinical Knowledge Leadership Facilitation Taking Initiative Accountability Organization

Required Qualifications

• AA Degree of Nursing or Graduate of a surgical technology program or equivalent experience/training required
• Maintain current License or certification
• Extensive 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 Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Nursing or related field
• Knowledge of analytics: Tableau, Excel and Epic
• Knowledge and deployment of Lean methodologies

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing 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 shifts

Location: St. Marys Regional Hospital
Work City: Grand Junction
Work State: Colorado
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $35.60 - $54.93

We 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.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health’s PEAK program supports caregivers in the pursuit of their education goals and career aspirations by providing up‑front tuition coverage paid directly to the academic institution. The program offers 100+ learning options to choose from, including undergraduate studies, high school diplomas, and professional skills and certificates. Caregivers are eligible to participate in PEAK on day 1 of employment. Learn more.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

All positions subject to close without notice.

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