Medical Staff Coordinator
Location: Fairbanks Alaska
Description: Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is at the momment seeking for Medical Staff Coordinator right now, this occupation will be placed in Alaska. More details about this occupation opportunity kindly see the descriptions. Medical Staff Services provides administrative support to the FMH Medical Staff, their offices and departments throughout the Hospital. Responsibilities include assisting with regulat! ory compliance, credentialing, departments and committees, and maintaining current governing documents of the Medical Staff and Allied Health Staff, ie. Bylaws, Policies, Rules and Regulations.
Position Available:
Full-Time
40 hours per week
Monday-Friday
- 0830-1700
- Often this position requires early and late meeting management and attendance. This could occur anywhere between 6am and 9pm. The scheduled hours are adjusted to accomodate this.
Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is a non-profit facility owned by the Greater Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation and managed by Banner Health. A JCAHO-accredited facility with 152 licensed beds, Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is the primary referral center for residents of Alaska's interior. With a strong patient-to-nurse ratio, ours is a Magnet aspiring facility with a Shared Leadership Infrastructure. In addition to our exceptional clinical! environment, our location offers incomparable lifestyle rewar! ds away from work. In Fairbanks, small-town living, spectacular natural beauty and endless recreation combine to create a one-of-a-kind place to live, work and play.
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Job Summary:
This position provides highly skilled support via liaison representation to committees, medical staff departments, physicians, and other hospital personnel under moderate supervision.
Essential Functions
Coordinates all aspects of assigned medical staff committees including compiling agenda material, accurately documenting minutes, compiling follow-up memos and letters, ! researching and preparing information for chairs, and providing professional assistance to various chairmen regarding privileging, credentialing, reappointment, and medical staff rules and regulations as outlined in the medical staff bylaws.
In consultation with the director, provides administrative support for hearing committees. Serves as a resource for medical staff members regarding medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations, hospital and medical staff policies, regulatory requirements and parliamentary procedure. Assists in drafting correspondence ensuring compliance with established bylaws, rules and regulations. May coordinate GME and/or CME functions and processes.
Under direction, liaises between medical staff and administration, communicating sensitive and confidential issues including peer review. Interacts directly with a variety of internal and external customers. Uses judgment and discretion to maintain peer review protection to hospital and! medical staff.
Understands and maintains an accurate, secure ! and updated database of physician and allied health information to query on basic demographic profiles including but not limited to staff privileges and status for other hospital departments and facilities requiring this information. Uses various internal databases to gather and analyze physician and allied health data used in the reappointment, peer review and quality improvement processes of the medical staff and board of directors.
Coordinates processing of all aspects of physician and allied health credentialing and reappointment processes within appropriate timeframes ensuring the quality of the practitioners providing patient care. Assures the completeness and accurateness of the credentialing process. Requests additional information from external medical if necessary. May obtain and log expired credentials on a monthly basis according to rules and policies. Monitors the progress of physicians through the supervision period, assisting department chairs with t! he appropriate procedures, forms and time limits.
Collects and compiles data for physician and allied health quality profiles to analyze practice patterns using data to determine performance. This includes working with senior staff, department chairmen, quality staff, and other hospital staff to identify sources of data and methods of presenting and analyzing data.
Manages the preparation, distribution and maintenance of the physician emergency department call schedules.
Minimum Qualifications
Must possess strong knowledge of medical office administration as normally obtained through 1-2 years experience in a healthcare, paralegal, managed care or credentialing. Requires knowledge of medical terminology and professional physician interface. Requires experience interacting with physicians in highly sensitive situations. Must possess strong verbal and written communication skills. Requires astute judgment in human relations skills to interf! ace and communicate in an articulate manner with medical staff, adminis! trators, legal counsel and hospital personnel.
Requires the ability to work with common office software and equipment.
Preferred Qualifications
Two years of college education is preferred. National Certification as a Medical Staff Services Professional is preferred. Knowledge of medical staff computer software programs is desirable.
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.
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If you were eligible to this occupation, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to Fairbanks Memorial Hospital.
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This occupation starts available on: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:08:12 GMT