Transfer Center Coordinator - Clinical Support - Days - MFT

Memorial Health System; Gulfport (MS); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Memorial Health System in Gulfport, MS seeks a Transfer Center Coordinator to oversee system-wide patient placement, streamline transfers, and support clinical decision-making for movement of patients. The role partners with the patient placement nurse, room control staff, registration, EMS, and leaders to ensure timely, safe transfers across all facilities.

The ideal candidate is a registered nurse with at least 1 year of acute care experience, familiar with Cerner EHR and capacity management

Qualifications

• RN licensure required and acute care background.
• RN degree from an accredited school of nursing (associate or bachelor).
• Experience with transfer processes or transfer center is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support usage of electronic health system software to facilitate patient movement across hospitals.
• Train staff and maintain compliance with EHR, decision trees, workflows and clinical decision support.
• Provide real time data and status to leadership and generate actionable reports.
• Collaborate with leaders across campuses to ensure smooth system processes and patient-centric movement.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Education

Associate or Bachelor’s degree in nursing

Tools

Cerner EHR

Capacity management software

Job description

Transfer Center Coordinator - Clinical Support - Days - MFT

Gulfport, MS, United States

Job Description

The Transfer Center Coordinator will ensure smooth system-wide patient placement, streamline transfer processes both into and out of all hospitals, and advance the seamless operation of clinical decisions related to patient movement. The transfer center coordinator will work with the patient placement nurse, room control associate, registration staff in collaboration with other departments and clinical leaders.Ensure optimized transfers both into and out of all hospitals across the system. Including internal transfers, upgrades in care and external transfer requests both into and out of the system. Includes working closely with care coordination, outside facilities, EMS partners and other community and statewide resources on a daily basis, as well as in times of disaster or diversions, over crowding or any other events as they may arise.

Responsibilities

• Supports the usage of electronic health system software to facilitate all patient movement into, out of and within all hospitals, as well as direct admissions, transport team services, and all other requests for patient movement within the system
• Train staff and maintain compliance with use of the EHR, decision trees and algorithms, workflows and clinical decision support materials used to facilitate patient movement and appropriate patient placement. Provide support and oversight of patient flow nurses, room control associates, nursing supervisors and other registration staff as it relates to patient movement and placement
• Provide real time data and status of all hospital facilities to leadership on an ongoing basis 24/7/365. Generate actionable reports and analytics related to both internal and external workflows and maintain compliance with regulatory and reporting requirements
• Provide leadership and oversight to maintain daily as well as monthly communication about all patient flow efforts, issues and concerns as they arise. Collaborate with leaders across all campuses in clinical care, medical staff leadership, IT, care coordination, etc to ensure smooth system processes and technology driven patient movement efforts are successful and patient centric at all times

Qualifications

Education Requirements

• Required: Associate degree or bachelor’s degree from an accredited school of nursing

License or Certification Requirements

• Required: RN License. Licensed RN with an acute care background

Experience Requirements

• Required: Minimum of one (1) year of experience with acute care background

Knowledge

• Working knowledge of Cerner EHR
• Hands on use of Capacity Managements patient flow software
• Transfer process or transfer center experience preferred
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements such as EMTALA, CMS and MSDHS reporting, etc.

Skills

• Proven ability to lead cross-campus standardization efforts and projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills and ability to provide clear direction with supporting education to ensure ongoing adherence to workflows

Abilities

• Must be a quick learner of software systems if not already familiar, excellent communication skills, problem solving and critical thinking skills, and ability to lead large groups or large cross institutional efforts

Work is generally performed in a healthcare/office environment. Position may be required to travel to various locations.

Physical Demands

Frequent reaching, sitting, walking, and standing may be required. No special coordination beyond that used for normal mobility and handling of everyday objects and materials is needed to perform the job.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Job Info

• Job Identification 27363
• Job Category Registered Nurse
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day
• Locations Main Hospital Main Tower 1st Floor