Kaweah Health
Health Unit Coordinator
Visalia, California · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$20k-$31kDetected 1 day ago
Patient CareCommunication
About the role
- With more than 5,000 employees, Kaweah Health provides state-of-the-art medicine and high-quality preventive services in our acute care hospital, specialized health centers and clinics.
- Our eight-campus healthcare district has 613 beds and offers comprehensive health services across a broad continuum of care.
- It takes a special person to work for Kaweah Health.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates and communicates with the nursing staff to maintain accurate records during the patient's hospitalization.
- Performs electronic updates to appropriate systems for admissions, discharges and transfers (i.e. patient disposition, assignment management application, throughput application).
- Accurately and legibly maintains staffing assignment sheets.
- Able to perform all regular duties when the hospital computer system is not available.
- Prepares and maintains patient's charts.
Requirements
- Education
- Experience
- Preferred: Healthcare experience
- Organizational and computer skills necessary to support the needs of the department
- Essential
- Greets visitors and interdisciplinary team members with a smile and provides assistance as appropriate within the scope of their training.
- Collaborates and communicates with the nursing staff to maintain accurate records during the patient's hospitalization. Communicates effectively with different departments and people. Assists staff with communication within and between departments.
- Keeps charge nurse informed or admissions, discharges and transfers by frequent communication. Performs electronic updates to appropriate systems for admissions, discharges and transfers (i.e. patient disposition, assignment management application, throughput application). Accurately enters patient data into computer on all admissions, discharges, and transfers. Accurately and legibly maintains staffing assignment sheets.
- Utilizes appropriate resources for clarification of orders. Transcribes orders as directed by unit procedures or downtime processes. Follows all departmental downtime procedures. Able to perform all regular duties when the hospital computer system is not available.
- Prepares and maintains patient's charts. Reviews charts at the end of every shift to ensure adequate supply of forms are filed in the chart and that the chart is maintained in proper order. Ensures that after discharge the patient's chart is completely assembled for Medical Records. Prepares teh chart in proper order for patients transferred to another unit.
Nice to have
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Able to exhibit a courteous and friendly manner to others
- Preferred: High school diploma or equivalent
Skills
- Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Compensation
- $20.38 -$30.57
Benefits
- Full-Time Benefit Eligible
- A liaison to the medical nursing unit who provides communication between all disciplines as well as patients, families, and visitors.
- Health Unit Coordinators are responsible for accurate order entry and management of patient medical chart.
- Kaweah Health is a publicly owned, community healthcare organization that provides comprehensive health services to the greater Visalia area in central California.
- Throughout it all, our focus is to make a difference, and we do - in the health of our patients, our loved ones, and our community.
- Benefits Eligible
- They shall conduct themselves in such a manner as to gain respect and confidence of the patients, health care personnel, and community, as well as respecting the human dignity of each individual.
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