Patient Representative - Full Time, Days

NYU Langone Health System; Village of Patchogue (NY); On-site; USD 59,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk invites applications for a Patient Representative - Full Time, Days, in the Patient Experience and Culture team. You will facilitate proactive communication between patients, families and staff to enhance patient experience and ensure patient-centered care.

The role emphasizes addressing concerns, documenting responses, and collaborating across departments to resolve issues promptly.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required with 3–5 years healthcare or customer service experience.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Strong interpersonal and customer service abilities.

Responsibilities

• Greet patients and families and create a courteous, patient-centered environment.
• Investigate complaints and escalate to appropriate areas; de-escalate concerns by phone or in person.
• Document data and enter into grievance databases.
• Conduct daily proactive rounds on units to address patient/family needs.
• Provide information on patient rights and advance directives; offer emotional support as needed.
• Refer potential quality or risk issues to Quality and Risk Management.
• Collaborate with care teams to resolve concerns promptly and professionally.
• Anticipate patient needs across age, culture, languages, and accessibility.

Skills

Communication

Excel

Customer Service

Conflict De-escalation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk is a 306-bed medical center, providing care to residents of eastern Long Island. The hospital facility is home to theKnapp Cardiac Care Center-an advanced heart disease diagnostic and treatment facility-as well as a modern ambulatory surgical pavilion with specialized services including women's imaging, a sleep laboratory, and bariatric surgery. Our Provisional Level 2 Trauma Center delivers comprehensive and specialized care for patients with traumatic injuries. The Stroke Center at NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk is designated by the New York State Department of Health as a Primary Stroke Center, with expert neurologists available to provide treatment 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Additionally, NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk has multiple outpatient sites, including an outpatient wound care center, a hemodialysis center, and various primary care and specialty offices.

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Position Summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Patient Representative - Full Time, Days - Patient Experience and Culture - Full-Time - Monday - Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm. In this role, the successful candidate Responsible for facilitating proactive communication between patients, families and staff to improve the NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk Patient Experience. Promotes patient and family centered care throughout the Hospital. Assist patients and family members with issues and concerns and works collaboratively with all departments/areas to promptly facilitate problem resolution.

Job Responsibilities

• Greet patients and families and creates a courteous and professional patient centered environment.
• Investigates hospital complaints and grievances according to hospital policy and escalates to appropriate areas/ departments. Triages and escalates high profile complaints and effectively communicates. De-escalate patient andor family concerns via phone or in person. Follows Patient Relations process and promptly responds to patient and family concerns. Initiates appropriate service recovery methods to resolve concerns.
• Responsible for timely documentation, entering data into grievance and complaint database.
• Conducts daily proactive new admission patient family rounds on units.
• Serves as a resource for information concerning patients rights, responsibilities and advance directives. Provides emotional support as needed to patients, visitors and families.
• Identifies cases that are potential quality or risk issues and makes appropriate and timely referrals to Quality and Risk Management.
• Works collaboratively with the healthcare team in clarifying issues and promoting prompt and caring resolution of patient family concerns. Anticipates the needs of the patient population served in relation to their age, culture, languages, deaf, hearing impaired, blind, visually impaired.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

To qualify you must have a Bachelor's Degree Required. 3 - 5 years Healthcare or customer service related experience Excellent communication (both oral and written), organizational, time management skills. Strong interpersonal and customer service skills. Ability to handle conflict and de-escalate situations. Knowledge of Microsoft Office especially Excel.

NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.

NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration.

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NYU Langone Hospital-Suffolk provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $58,500.00 - $66,300.00 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

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