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For over 100 years, at Riverside Health System, we have made it our mission to care for others as we would care for those we love.
Overview
Manages a distributed HIMS Operations team, consisting of a Quality Coordinator and HIMS analysts spread across five facilities dealing with both acute care and behavioral health. Plans, coordinates, monitors, and manages work flows ensuring effective and efficient daily HIMS operations. Uses knowledge of Riverside's mission and core strategy as a basis to develop specific department objectives and goals. Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) on health information management issues including HIPAA, confidentiality, information storage and retrieval, and record retention.
What you will do
- Works with team members to provide education and communication including but not limited to huddles, communication of information pertaining to job performance, individual coaching, counseling, skill development, staff morale and motivation. Supports innovation, encourages creativity, and helps staff to accept and resolve challenges.
- Manages recruiting, training, and scheduling to ensure adequate coverage for HIMS Operations.
- Effectively manages the department workload and special projects, by appropriately delegating to team members.
- Looks for opportunities to improve patient documentation. Uses multiple tools and reports for cross-checking accuracy of information. Shares information with key leadership with recommendations when corrective action plans are needed and provides updates periodically to document improvement.
- Participates and leads committees to improve the EMR such as the Forms Committee.
- Demonstrates ability to create and / or view and analyze various data reports to design meaningful metrics and trend reports and implement or recommend corresponding performance improvement initiatives.
- Enforces operational, procedural, and regulatory requirements.
Qualifications
Education
- Associates Degree, Health Information Management or related field (Required)
- Bachelors Degree, Health Information Management or related field (Preferred)
Experience
- 3-4 years HIMS experience (Acute care preferred) (Required)
- 2 years Supervisory experience (Preferred)
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to remain flexible to meet constant changing and sometimes opposing demands and competing priorities.
- Ability to display positive, patient centered, and solution-oriented approach and attitude.
- Expert in accurate, thorough, and effective work processes.
Licenses and Certifications
- Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT) - The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) AHIMA (Required)
- Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIT) - The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) AHIMA (Preferred)
- LSS Yellow Belt within 1 Year (Required)
As a Riverside Health System team member, our benefits have you covered:
Health & Wellness:
- Medical Plan Options
- Vision and Dental plans (including orthodontic care)
- Wellness & fitness center discounts
- Onsite pharmacy and delivery options
- Riverside Health System services discount
- Flexible spending and savings accounts
- Healthy lifestyle incentives
Peace of Mind:
- Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
- Short Term Disability
- Whole Life Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Legal Insurance
- Pet Insurance
Financial Support:
- CEUs (MedBridge Education)
- 403(b) Savings Plan (Immediate Matching)
- Specialty Certification Financial Assistance
- Company Wide Bonus Program
- Employee Help Fund
Work-Life Balance:
- Paid Time Off (full- and part-time team members)
- Extended illness bank
- Employee Assistance Program
- Adoption Assistance
- Area retail discounts
- Community involvement opportunities
