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Ground breaking science. Advancing medicine. Healing made personal.
Roles & Responsibilities:
1. Greet and direct patients, visitors, and staff.
2. Answers telephones promptly and courteously. Directs calls to appropriate personnel and/or departments, takes messages and assures delivery of same.
3. Collects and distributes patient referral information received from affiliated physicians.
4. Escorts visitors and patients to appropriate areas; provides information to assist patient and/or visitors.
5. Is open and responsive to the diverse backgrounds and experience of other people and promotes an environment that is sensitive to cultural diversity.
6. Distributes departmental reading material such as Emergency Department brochure, Health Care Proxy and Patient Bill of Rights. Ensures such documents are readily available.
7. Registers patients by updating or entering patient demographic, financial information and emergency contact data into the computer system.
8. Verifies demographic information and insurance coverage by interviewing patient/family member/friend.
9. According to policy and established procedure generates patients' chart and attaches pertinent information such as Emerg Card, Medicaid threshold and EMS sheet, etc.
10. According to policy and established procedure reviews discharged patient charts for diagnosis, physician signature, dictation code, menu and appropriate forms for completion.
11. According to established policy and procedure processes specimens for laboratory(ies) by assuring that specimens are appropriately labeled, forms are competed and identification processes have been followed.
12. File charts and retrieve old records.
13. Retrieves completed charts, addressograph plate and all supporting documents from patient treatment area.
14. Enters data into required computerized system.
15. Maintains patient recall file.
16. According to policy and established procedures insured that all papers, forms, etc. are stamped appropriately.
17. Logs patients on/in to the appropriate registration sheets/logs. Reconcile log books.
18. Obtains signatures for consent.
19. Makes clinic appointments.
20. Other duties as assigned.
Requirements:
Education:
High School Diploma or GED
Experience:
Six to nine months of health care experience in order to become familiar with institutional policies and procedures preferred.
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong, and are able to professionally advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise, contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!
Who We Are
Over 42,000 employees strong, the mission of the Mount Sinai Health System is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.
Formed in September 2013, The Mount Sinai Health System combines the excellence of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with seven premier hospitals, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Brooklyn, The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Queens, Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt), Mount Sinai St. Luke's, and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.
The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination on the basis of their actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, gender identity, age, disability, marital or parental status, sexual orientation, veteran, immigration, citizenship, or other protected status.
EOE including Veterans and Disabled
