Coordinator Scheduling Operating Room - Specialty General Surgery

at  Christus Health

SUMMARY:

Coordinator Scheduling Operating Room facilitates a welcome and easy access to the facility and is responsible for establishing an encounter for any patient who meets the guidelines for hospital service. The Coordinator ensures that all data entry is accurate, including demographic and financial information for each account. The Coordinator is responsible for the successful financial outcome of all patient services. The Coordinator communicates directly with patients and families, physicians, and nurses. This position requires professional appearance, behavior, and good communication skills, along with dependability, flexibility, and teamwork.
This advanced-level position is designed to promote the demonstrated knowledge and competency of the Coordinator Scheduling Operating Room to demonstrate the ability to use good judgment in making independent decisions to resolve customer issues in all routine operations.
The CHRISTUS Children’s Hospital, established in 1959, was the first children’s hospital in South-Central Texas. Located downtown, this 190-plus-bed hospital serves more than 70,000 children annually from San Antonio, South Texas and around the world. The hospital (in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine) is the only academic children’s hospital in San Antonio. Our highly specialized services meet the unique medical needs of children, from Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care to Children’s Emergency Services, a Heart Center, a specialized asthma program, a highly regarded Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, and growing maternal services to include consultation, delivery, and maternal fetal medicine.

EDUCATION

• Provides focused education for staff as needed.
• Coordinate new hire training (if needed)
• Assure Healthstream education is completed timely.
• Attends the majority of Direct Connects

A. EDUCATION/SKILLS

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• Associate degree preferred with emphasis in Health/business-related field.

B. EXPERIENCE

• 6 months of scheduling experience preferred.

• Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.