Health Unit Coordinator

Nursing Unit Secretary/ Health Unit Coordinator

What sets us apart?

We have the great privilege of helping patients and families re-build their lives. It’s extraordinarily meaningful work and the reason we greet the day with optimism and anticipation. When patients “Ask for Mary,” they experience a culture that has been sculpted for more than a century. Our hallmark is to carefully listen to patients and innovatively serve them. This is true of every employee, from support staff and leadership, to clinicians and care providers.

Mary Free Bed is a not-for-profit, nationally accredited rehabilitation hospital serving thousands of children and adults each year through inpatient, outpatient, sub-acute rehabilitation, orthotics and prosthetics and home and community programs. With the most comprehensive rehabilitation services in Michigan and an exclusive focus on rehabilitation, Mary Free Bed physicians, nurses and therapists help our patients achieve outstanding clinical outcomes. The growing Mary Free Bed Network provides patients throughout the state with access to our unique standard of care.

Mary Free Bed at Covenant HealthCare provides inpatient rehabilitation care for patients in the Saginaw and surrounding regions. Health Unit Coordinators working in this location have the opportunity to receive support from both Mary Free Bed and Covenant, and are expected to follow all applicable policies and procedures that apply to our work.

Mission Statement
Mary Free Bed: Restoring hope and freedom through rehabilitation.

Covenant: Extraordinary Care for Every Generation.

Diversity and Inclusion:
Mary Free Bed values diversity and inclusion among patients, families and staff. We strive to hire people who reflect the communities we serve. Our employees will serve all patients, families and each other with dignity and respect.

Summary:
The Health Unit Coordinator (HUC) provides support for the physicians and team members within the rehabilitation hospital, focusing on efforts that improve flow of accurate information, promoting efficiency, and doing multiple activities to provide outstanding care to the patients that we serve.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• With key responsibilities for smooth, accurate, and timely patient flow, the HUC will accept calls and record patient information from patient placement regarding admissions and transfers, and enter pending and actual discharges, deaths, &/or transfers immediately into the EPIC system.
• Updating assignment sheets and validating staffing with schedules, assignment sheets and shift administrator or staffing coordinator. Assists in calling in and/or calling off staff as requested.
• Updating assignment sheets and validating staffing with schedules, assignment sheets and shift administrator or staffing coordinator. Assists in calling in and/or calling off staff as requested.
• Assists to accurately transcribe Physicians' Orders as per unit policy, completing all order entry procedures, forms, requisitions, and communications necessary to implement orders.
• Monitor &/or enter charges including sitters, isolation, and others as assigned.
• Initiates, assembles, and maintains the paper aspects of the patient chart, admission folders for patients, and thank you cards. Monitors location of chart at all times.
• Participates in patient care and unit activities to achieve compliance with all regulatory, patient safety, infection control and safety requirements.
• Prepares and transfers paper chart to HIM upon discharge or expiration of the patient.
• Answers patient call lights in a timely fashion and informs appropriate caregiver of the need.
• Assists with overall unit appearance including cleaning desk area, microwaves and refrigerators, monitoring and assisting with dirty utility room cleaning. Check & replace sharps containers, and isolation carts.
• Daily regulatory checks including refrigerator temperature checks, daily weights, restraint required documentation.
• Assists in Death/Restraint Reports with information going to Nurse Manager and Clinical Nurse Outcomes Specialist.
• Maintains appropriate levels of office supplies and patient education materials, ordering & stocking as needed.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with all health care team members, patients, and families.
• Daily monitoring of Intake: BMs to report to nurse
• Daily lab check to ensure all ordered labs are completed
• Daily input into food acceptance flowsheet for all meals
• All other duties as assigned

Essential Job Qualifications (Knowledge, Education & Training Required):

• Proficient utilization of Microsoft Office and ability to successfully learn other computer applications.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.
• Must be detail oriented with demonstrated ability to analyze multifaceted situations to determine appropriate course of action.
• Ability to work independently at a high level of efficiency; working independently to prioritize workload and meet deadlines given a high volume workload with multiple interruptions
• Excellent customer service skills required.
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• Physical demands
  • Required to stand, sit, talk, type, read, and hear.
  • Required to use hands and arms to handle, feel, carry and work.
  • Required to frequently stand, walk, bend, kneel, and rise from a kneeling position while performing patient care.
  • Required to be independently mobile, with frequent bending, and reaching overhead, for activities such as positioning and transferring of patients and equipment.
  • Must be able to exert 20 to 35 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects(*).
  • Due to possible exposure to blood-borne pathogens and hazardous materials, must be able to understand and follow department policies related to employee safety.
  • Must be competent with computer systems for the purpose of documenting patient care.
  
  

Mary Free Bed is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristic.