Data Collection Coordinator

Data Collection Coordinator

We are Maimonides Health, Brooklyn's largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system's three hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation's largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Case Management, Physicians, Nursing, Patient Access, and Patient Relations to identify all patients who require an IM.
• Issue (within 2 calendar days of the patients admission) an IM to the patient or the patients representative and obtain a signature if the patient has not received an IM in the Patient Access Department / Admitting. File a copy of the IM in the patients chart / record.
• Call the patients representative (if not available) on the hospital telephone, and mail or fax the IM on the same day.
• Collaborate with the Nurse Case Manager to identify patients who will be discharged. Re-issue the IM 48 hours prior to the patients discharge.
• Notify the Case Management Department and the Nurse Case Manager of the unit should a patient request an appeal of their discharge.
• Identify and participate in departmental P.I. activities, bringing any discrepancies to the attention of a supervisor.

Qualifications

Pay Range : USD $25.96 - USD $26.54 / Hr.

Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer.