Patient Flow Coordinator-LPN

101 Southeast Health; United States; On-site; USD 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Southeast Health seeks a Licensed Practical Nurse to manage hospital bed capacity, coordinate patient transfers, and monitor throughput to ensure safe, timely admissions and discharges. You will collaborate with ED, nursing, physicians, and other facilities using the EPIC system to optimize patient placement.

The role focuses on streamlining bed availability, reducing delays, and maintaining compliance with hospital and regulatory standards during night shifts.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Current LPN licensure in the State of Alabama.
• Minimum 1 year LPN experience;3 years preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage hospital bed capacity and patient flow; ensure safe, efficient placement.
• Act as liaison between admitting, nursing, physicians, and transferring hospitals.
• Enter and review data in the EPIC system; maintain documentation for compliance.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Nursing assessment

Patient throughput

Communication

Education

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing

Current LPN licensure in Alabama

Tools

EPIC system

Bed management software

Job description

Job Description Summary

Responsible for managing hospital bed capacity and patient flow, ensuring safe, efficient and timely placement of patients into appropriate units. Coordinates between other hospitals and physicians to ensure proper placement of patient transferring into and out of SE Health. Administers the policies and operational procedures necessary for the coordination of expeditious, safe admission/transfer of patients.

Essential Functions

Identifies and effectively utilizes the appropriate resources to ensure bed assignments are appropriate for patient population and admit type status.

Assumes technical responsibility for hospital transfers, admissions, and accommodations to include entering and reviewing data and dashboards in EPIC system.

Serves as a liaison between admitting, nursing staff, physicians, and transferring hospitals to ensure proper placement.

Maintain Compliance on Physician Link calls following EMTALA protocol.

Acts as a central liaison between ED staff, nursing, physicians, and environmental services to facilitate patient transfers and discharges.

Participate/lead daily multi-disciplinary “Bed Control” meetings involving front line leadership and nursing administration.

Streamlines patient throughput, reducing wait times in the emergency department and expediting transfers from other facilities.

Documents patient movements in the electronic medical record, maintains required documentation and ensures adherence to hospital, regulatory and legal standards.

Documents appropriate data in the bed management system to reflect system wide activity.

Communicates with unit managers, nursing leadership, administrator on call regarding high census, capacity constraints and complex placement issues.

Monitors hospital-wide census and implements surge capacity protocols to manage periods of high acuity or volume.

Analyzes historical admission data and upcoming surgical schedules to anticipate bed shortages and proactively allocate resources.

Serves as an arbiter in bed-related disputes between departments, prioritizing patient safety and clinical necessity over "first-come, first-served" placement.

Regularly reviews Bed board and Capacity Management Dashboard to identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks.

Collaborates with clinical leadership to create or update standardized placement criteria for specialty units (CCU, PCU, Telemetry, Ortho) to ensure level-of-care accuracy.

Performs other duties as requested by primary manager that do not compromise moral code of conduct or protocols set in place for patient or employee safety.

Qualifications

Minimum Education Required: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.

Current LPN Licensure in the State of Alabama.

Minimum Experience Required: One (1) year of LPN experience.

Minimum Experience Preferred: Three (3) years of LPN experience.

Required Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities

Actively accepts, understands, and practices appropriate standards of nursing practice of the Licensed Practical Nurse as approved by the Alabama Board of Nursing.

Maintains an active, unencumbered Alabama State LPN license (or a valid multistate compact license with Alabama privileges).

Annual completion of competency requirements.

Ability to work effectively across all healthcare disciplines, from front-line staff to executive leadership.

Demonstrates commitment to organizations five (5) priorities and Six Ground Rules.

Six Ground Rules

• No excuses.
• We are a team.
• Bring up your ideas.
• Poor performance will be addressed.
• That’s not my job is not acceptable.
• Manage Up.

Shift Night Shift Details

FTE 0.9.

Type Regular.

Equal Employment Employer

Southeast Health is committed to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Southeast Health will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

About Southeast Health

Southeast Health is an academic community-based health system serving the healthcare needs of 460,000 residents in southeast Alabama, southwest Georgia, and the Florida panhandle. The organization includes Southeast Health Medical Center, a 420-bed hospital with the region’s largest medical group and the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM), the state’s largest medical school. The philanthropic arm of the organization is the Southeast Health Foundation, and its population health division is Southeast Health Statera Network. Southeast Health, a not-for-profit organization, exists to promote healing, prevent disease, educate medicine’s brightest minds, and bring wellness and prosperity to the region it serves.

Delivering excellent patient care and top‑notch educational experiences begins with great employees, which is why we constantly strive to improve the work experience for our 3,000 team members.