University of Michigan · 1 day ago
Patient Placement Coordinator - CE (TEMP)
Ann Arbor, MI
Part-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expThe University of Michigan is a leading institution in healthcare and education, seeking a Patient Placement Coordinator to optimize patient flow across its hospitals and emergency departments. The role involves coordinating patient placement, resolving clinical issues, and enhancing communication among multidisciplinary teams to ensure quality patient care and efficient discharge processes.
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Responsibilities
Recognize and triage alerts and incorporate situational awareness using electronic health record (e.g., Epic); specialized tiles, dashboards, and monitors in the center; and other clinical resources
Promote proactive inpatient care progression and escalate tasks that could impact care or discharge timeline by expediting, prioritizing, mediating and resolving clinical issues
Manage deviations from patient care paths using standard operating procedures and applying clinical expertise
Resolve patient care bottlenecks and variations in service standards; optimize prioritization with support services, and a variety of clinical departments; enhance and improve communication and coordination of care within multidisciplinary teams
Provide leadership and collaboration with M2C2 colleagues, providers, and nursing leaders to address relevant clinical and discharge issues
Provide excellent customer service to internal and external customers
Provide effective communication with team members and other departments to ensure seamless processes
Active problem-solving of issues related to patient flow, transfer, discharge and care progression
Communicate status of house to key stakeholders (units, ED, PACU, leadership, etc.)
Manage multiple competing tasks and deadlines with energy and efficiency
Educate and provide feedback to nursing and medical staff in clinical departments, inpatient units, and procedural areas to improve patient placement and facilitate timely and safe transfers, patient care progression needs and discharges
Lead, facilitate and coordinate assigned appropriate huddles with multi-disciplinary teams and provide solutions to patient flow issues
Support and collaborate with inpatient ICU fellows to assist with patient placement, with care and ancillary support teams to resolve bottlenecks, promote patient care progression and safe and timely discharge, with outside hospitals to ensure safe and timely transfers
Participate in the orientation and training of on-boarding Capacity Management staff
Participate in activities to promote own continued learning and professional growth
Participate in the development, implementation and ongoing evaluation of policies, processes and procedures related to Capacity Management functions as well as outside departments to assist in process improvement to ensure the meeting or improvement of organizational goals related to Capacity Management
Assess and evaluate new or revised systems which support Capacity Management goals and objectives
Recommend and facilitate improvements in patient placement, transfer or clinical expediting processes based on data analysis
Document notable events for follow-up and make recommendations for continuous improvement
Maintain required documentation to support continuous improvement and performance metrics
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in nursing or a related allied health discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
Minimum of 2 years of clinical experience, or direct capacity management experience (systems that support patient flow, transfer, clinical expediting and admission processes)
Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and produce detailed and accurate work
Excellent clinical knowledge and assessment skills to evaluate and prioritize patient placement, transfer and expediting issues
Ability to assess and handle highly sensitive and confidential matters with considerable discretion and independent judgement
Demonstrated positive work ethic and strong sense of teamwork/problem solving with co-workers
Preferred
Master's degree in nursing, related allied health discipline or healthcare administration
Experience facilitating patient placement, transfer or clinical expediting
Experience with systems that support patient flow, admission, transfer, care progression and discharge processes
Understanding of Michigan Medicine policies and procedures
Company
University of Michigan
The mission of the University of Michigan is to serve the people of Michigan and the world through preeminence in creating, communicating, preserving, and applying knowledge, art, and academic values, and in developing leaders and citizens who will challenge the present and enrich the future.
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