Health Unit Coordinator HUC

Lifepoint Health; Missoula (MT); Hybrid; USD 42.000 - 54.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Comprehensive benefits

PTO & coverage

Tuition assistance

401(k) retirement package

Wellness programs

Career development

Zusammenfassung

Community Medical Center in Missoula, MT is seeking a Monitor Tech/Health Unit Coordinator (HUC) to support patient flow and clinical team coordination. This full-time Day shift role requires strong organization, multitasking, and communication with staff, patients, and families.

As part of Lifepoint Health, you will help manage admissions, transfers, discharges, and documentation in electronic health records, while ensuring supplies, scheduling tests, and answering calls to keep the unit

Qualifikationen

• Strong organizational, multitasking, and customer service skills.
• Familiarity with medical terminology.
• Experience coordinating admissions, transfers and discharges.
• Proficiency with electronic health records (EHRs).
• Ability to communicate with patients, families, and medical staff.

Aufgaben

• Coordinate patient admissions, transfers and discharges.
• Maintain and organize medical records and EHRs.
• Manage unit supplies and equipment.
• Schedule diagnostic tests and appointments.
• Answer phones, relay messages and coordinate communications.
• Support nursing staff with clerical duties.

Jobbeschreibung

Community Medical Center

Monitor Tech/Health Unit Coordinator (HUC)

Job Type: FT

Schedule: Days

Your experience matters

Community Medical Centerispart of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. Weare driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Health Unit Coordinator joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

Position Summary

A Health Unit Coordinator is an administrative professional responsible for managing the flow of information and clerical tasks within a busy department, ensuring efficient operations and effective communication among the medical team, patients, and families. Key responsibilities include coordinating patient admissions, transfers, and discharges, maintaining and organizing medical records and electronic health records (EHRs), managing unit supplies and equipment, and serving as a central point of communication by answering phones, relaying messages, and scheduling diagnostic tests. This role requires strong organizational, multitasking, critical-thinking, and customer service skills, along with familiarity with medical terminology.

Key Responsibilities

• Communication Hub:
• Unit Management:
• Support for Staff:
  • Provide clerical and administrative support to nurses and other medical professionals.
  • Ensure unit operations run smoothly by managing data and maintaining a clean, orderly work environment.
  • Manage and reorder medical supplies and equipment for the unit.
  • Schedule diagnostic tests, procedures, and appointments for patients.
  • Assist with preparing insurance forms and other administrative documents.
  • Answer and screen incoming telephone calls and take messages.
  • Relay physician orders, test results, and patient status updates to appropriate staff.
  • Act as a go-between for the medical staff, patients, and their families, answering administrative questions.
  • Coordinate and document patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
  • Assemble, organize, and maintain patient medical charts and electronic health records (EHRs).
  • Record and relay information between patients, families, and the medical team.

What do we offer

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

About Us

Community Medical Center is a 151-bed hospital located in Missoula, MT. It is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone-your experience matters

EEOC Statement

"Community Medical Centeris an Equal Opportunity Employer.Community Medical Center is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment."

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.