Patient Accommodations Coordinator Part Time

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Elizabethtown (KY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance

Paid Time Off

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Bereavement Leave

Employee Assistance Program

Retirement Plan

Job summary

Baptist Health is hiring a Part-time Patient Accommodations Coordinator to manage hospital bed allocations and optimize patient flow. This role includes day shifts with one 7A-7P shift per week and rotating weekend coverage, supporting efficient admissions, transfers, and discharges.

Candidates should have a high school diploma or equivalent and at least two years in medical office or related experience. Preferred: an associate degree and hospital services/medical insurance experience.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Two years of medical office or related experience required.
• Associate's degree in healthcare related field preferred.
• Previous experience in hospital services and medical insurance preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize the allocation of hospital beds to ensure efficient patient flow, maximize bed utilization, and facilitate timely admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Maintain real-time bed availability information, coordinating bed assignments, and communicating with various departments to streamline patient movement within the hospital.

Skills

Medical office experience

Hospital services experience

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Associate's degree in healthcare field

Job description

Summary Job Description

Patient Accommodations Coordinator - Room Reservations Part-time, day shift One 7A-7P shift per week and two 6hr evening shifts Rotating every third weekend (dayshift) Participation in the holiday rotation (dayshift)

Job Description

Manage and optimize the allocation of hospital beds to ensure efficient patient flow, maximize bed utilization, and facilitate timely admissions, transfers, and discharges. Maintain real-time bed availability information, coordinating bed assignments, and communicating with various departments to streamline patient movement within the hospital.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• Two years of medical office or related experience required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associate's degree in healthcare related field preferred.
• Previous experience in hospital services and medical insurance preferred.

Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match

Company

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Notice of Non-Discrimination and Accessibility to Services

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

Employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.