Patient Flow Coordinator, Days - University of Maryland Medical System

When you come to the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, you’re coming to more than simply a beautiful 37-acre, 218-bed suburban Baltimore, Maryland campus. You’re embarking on a professional journey that encourages opportunities, values a team atmosphere, and makes convenience and flexibility a priority. Joining our team of healthcare professionals means you’ll be contributing to a locally and nationally recognized institution. UM St. Joseph has been recognized by The Leapfrog Group as a grade ‘A’ hospital and by U.S. News & World Report as #3 in both the state and Baltimore Metro area, making UM St. Joseph the highest-ranking community hospital in Maryland. In addition, we’ve been consistently recognized as a top employer by Baltimore magazine.

Patient Flow Coordinator
Towson, MD
 

Health care you can BELIEVE in.

We believe in health care that makes a difference. At the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, a 218-bed, Catholic acute care hospital located on a 37-acre suburban campus in Towson, we believe in putting our hearts into everything we do, which helped us earn the US News & World Report ranking as the #1 community hospital in Maryland.

We’re looking for a Patient Flow Coordinator to join our extraordinary team.

When you join our team, you’re embarking on a professional journey that encourages growth opportunities, values a team atmosphere, and makes convenience and flexibility a priority. At UM St. Joseph, you can fit your job around your life. You’ll find a tremendous variety of departments and units to choose from, and great managers and physicians to work with. Our team members, nurses and allied health professionals enjoy all of the advantages of working in a smaller, close-knit community hospital, located just north of Baltimore City.

As a Patient Flow Coordinator you will:

• Partner with the clinical staff to coordinate all procedures, interdepartmental and intradepartmental patient flow to maximize the efficiency of the schedule and provide assistance to patients while in the Imaging Services Depatment.
• Provides basic patient assistance with dressing and undressing, guidance through test procedures, and safe transfer of patients into procedural areas. Provides basic patient care (assistance to bathroom, use of bedpan/urinal).
• Utilizes our patient tracking system to communicate the schedule, patient location and procedure status within the department with a high degree of accuracy.
• Generates patient reports and collects data elements as requested.
• Utilizes other computer programs  to support effective movement of patients to other hospital departments
• Partners with receptionist and technologists to create the daily schedule, maximizing procedure room use to accommodate inpatient, outpatient, ED will call patients and add-on patients.
• Works with all inpatient units to facilitate timely patient movement and completion of studies.
• Coordinates all patient transportation to and from the department.

As a member of our team, you will experience:

• A supportive and collaborative work environment
• A comprehensive benefits package including health, vision and dental coverage including prescription drug coverage - Tax-Free Savings Plans, Tuition Reimbursement and more!
• Free Parking 
• Free Health & Wellness resources to reach your goals including an on-site fitness center, on-site, yoga, indoor and outdoor walking paths, body composition analysis and monthly fitness challenges; recently recognized by Healthiest Maryland Businesses as silver level Wellness at Work award.
• Recognition: We have a positive points recognition program designed to reward and recognize our outstanding employees; employees can also recognize their peers
• On-Site Daycare

We’re led by our engaged workforce, pursuing our True North, and committed to diversity, health equity, and inclusion, while aspiring to be a national leader in patient safety and experience, and integrated, high-quality health outcomes for the communities we serve.

 

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required
• BLS required
• 1 year of hospital registration experience preferred

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.