Operating Room Scheduling Coordinator

HCA Healthcare; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Wellbeing programs

Paid time off

401(k) match

Job summary

HCA Healthcare in Fort Worth, TX is seeking an Operating Room Scheduling Coordinator to manage daily surgical schedules and optimize OR utilization. You will coordinate with physician offices, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and nursing teams to verify schedules and resolve conflicts.

This role emphasizes accurate record keeping, responding to emergencies and cancellations, and supporting the surgical services department with data entry and reporting. Equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Previous experience in healthcare scheduling, preferably in a surgical or operating room setting.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and schedule surgical procedures, ensuring optimal use of operating room time and resources.
• Create a welcoming, professional environment while engaging with physician office staff, surgeons, anesthesiologists, nursing teams, and other healthcare professionals to verify schedules and efficiently resolve conflicts.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of surgical schedules, patient information, and operating room utilization.
• Monitor and adjust schedules as needed to accommodate emergencies, cancellations, and changes in patient status.
• Proactively identify scheduling conflicts or inefficiencies, communicate with the relevant parties to facilitate resolutions, and implement best practices to streamline workflow.
• Attend and contribute to daily 5 Day Look-Ahead meetings to ensure any issues are addressed including preventing cancellations and delays.
• Ensure compliance with hospital policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements related to operating room scheduling.
• Provide administrative support to the surgical services department, including data entry, report generation, and record keeping.
• Participate in departmental meetings and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

High school diploma or equivalent

Healthcare scheduling experience

Job description

Do you want to join an organization that invests in you as an Operating Room Scheduling Coordinator? At OR Scheduling, you come first. HCA Healthcare has committed up to $300 million in programs to support our incredible team members over the course of three years.

Job Summary And Qualifications

The Operating Room Scheduling Coordinatoris responsible formanaging and coordinating the daily schedules of surgical procedures in the operating room. This role ensuresoptimalutilizationof operating room resources,maintainsaccuraterecords, and collaborates with surgical teams to provide efficient and effective patient care. This role is the central link between physician office staff, operating room staff, surgeons, anesthesiologists, nursing teams, surgical vendor teams, and other administrative personnel.

In this role you will:

• Coordinate and schedule surgical procedures, ensuringoptimaluse of operating room time and resources.
• Create a welcoming, professional environment while engaging with physician office staff, surgeons, anesthesiologists, nursing teams, and other healthcare professionals to verify schedules and efficiently resolve conflicts.
• Maintainaccurateand up-to-date records of surgical schedules, patient information, and operating roomutilization.
• Monitor and adjust schedules as needed to accommodate emergencies, cancellations, and changes in patient status.
• Proactivelyidentifyscheduling conflicts or inefficiencies, communicate with the relevant parties tofacilitateresolutions, and implement best practices to streamline workflow.
• Attend and contribute to daily 5 Day Look-Ahead meetings to ensure any issues are addressed including preventing cancellations and delays.
• Ensure compliance with hospital policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements related to operating room scheduling.
• Provide administrative support to the surgical services department, including data entry, report generation, and record keeping.
• Participate in departmental meetings and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalentrequired
• Previousexperience in healthcare scheduling, preferably in a surgical or operating room setting.

Benefits

OR Scheduling, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Parallon provides full-service revenue cycle management, or total patient account resolution, for HCA Healthcare. Our services include scheduling, registration, insurance verification, hospital billing, revenue integrity, collections, payment compliance, credentialing, health information management, customer service, payroll, and physician billing. We also provide full-service revenue cycle management as well as targeted solutions, such as Medicaid Eligibility, for external clients across the country. Parallon has over 17,000 colleagues, and serves close to 1,000 hospitals and 3,000 physician practices, all making an impact on patients, providers, and their communities.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Good people beget good people."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are a family 270,000 dedicated professionals! Our Talent Acquisition team is reviewing applications for our Operating Room Scheduling Coordinator opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.