Scheduling Clerk
Company Description
Location: 550 Munson Avenue, Traverse City MI Schedule: Full Time Remote, 40 Hours Weekly - Monday to Friday 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM More Than Just Care, It’s Community Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties. If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material. To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country. Invested in You - Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance. - Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling. - Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges. - Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings
Job Description
A Day in the Life - Handles all future scheduling for the OR schedule including telephone requests, faxes and scheduling slips. - Takes verbal add-on cases for current day, ascertaining all pertinent patient data. - Communicates add-on cases and/or cancellations to O.R. coordinator and all other appropriate areas. - Utilizes all aspects of computerized and non-computerized “OR Management” scheduling systems to coordinate formation of the daily surgical case scheduling. - Is knowledgeable of the block scheduling system rules and regulations and is able to utilize that system to enter surgical cases accordingly. - Coordinates the order of surgical cases taking into consideration shared resources, personnel availability, surgeon preferences. - Communicates confirmation numbers of scheduled cases to physicians' office staff using right fax. - Notifies surgeons/offices of their surgery times for the next day’s procedures. - Notifies Inventory Control Specialist of all specialty items needed for boarded procedures. - Communicates daily with O.R. coordinators/O.R. Manager and Anesthesia about problems/conflicts/ special requests. - Responsible to access department communications daily utilizing telephone voicemail and/or e-mail.
Qualifications
What’s Required - High school graduate required. - Associate's degree and/or 3 years of experience in a hospital or health related field with focus on medical registration and medical terminology strongly desired. - Must be proficient in MS Word with knowledge of Windows based applications and possess a proven ability to effectively use multiple computer systems. - Previous Operating Room scheduling or unit clerk experience desired. Additional Information - This is a remote position and the candidate must live in the state of Michigan! - Are you Munson Material? Apply today! - Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.