Patient Throughput & Bed Management Specialist

Indiana University Health System; Indiana (PA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Indiana University Health System seeks an organized operations coordinator to support hospital admissions and bed management. The role involves coordinating overnight processes, preparing daily census data, and creating admission orders for UH and MH.

You will use Cerner and collaborate with hospitalist and ICU teams in a hybrid work setting. The candidate should have strong communication, teamwork, and prioritization skills, with experience in hospital operations and familiarity with Cerner.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Graduation from an accredited Medical Assistant or LPN program preferred.
• Previous hospital operations experience preferred, including admissions/bed management.

Responsibilities

• Assign new business to appropriate teams from overnight business.
• Add assigned team orders in Cerner.
• Calculate daily census.
• Send overnight new business and team census to hospitalist teams and ICU teams (the night team does this for UH).
• Create admission orders daily for UH and on weekends for MH.
• Triage consult/transfer calls throughout the day.
• Send new business (ER admits, consults, post-ops, transfers) to MH/UH/ICU teams.
• Prepare UH, MH, and ICU paperwork for the next day.
• Calculate ICU team censuses before evening changeover.

Skills

Communication

Collaborations

Attention to detail

Prioritization

Multitasking

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Medical Assistant program

LPN program

Tools

Cerner

Microsoft Teams

Excel

Job description

Indiana University Health System seeks an organized operations coordinator to support hospital admissions and bed management. The role involves coordinating overnight processes, preparing daily census data, and creating admission orders for UH and MH.

You will use Cerner and collaborate with hospitalist and ICU teams in a hybrid work setting. The candidate should have strong communication, teamwork, and prioritization skills, with experience in hospital operations and familiarity with Cerner.