Transfer Center Specialist – Full time, days

Here’s What You Need

• Highschool diploma or equivalent and 2 years in a transfer center or patient access department required or
• Graduate of an accredited LVN program required or
• Graduate of an accreted paramedic program required
• No experience required if LVN or Paramedic
• 2 years related experience in critical care, emergency services or patient access services preferred
• LVN (if LVN) upon hire required

What You Will Do

The Patient Logistic Center’s Specialist is responsible for the coordination of resources needed to transfer a patient throughout the THR system. This role involves collaboration with various departments including internal and external departments such as providers, charge nurses, admissions, and clinical teams, and central bed placement to facilitate timely and appropriate patient placements. The Patient Logistic Center’s Specialist is responsible for coordinating and managing logistic center needs across various departments across the enterprise.

 • Bed Management: Assess incoming patient information to determine appropriate bed placement based on medical needs, bed availability and hospital resources. Monitor bed board. Collaborates with entity administrative supervisor, Patient Logistics, Patient Access, Nursing staff, and physicians to ensure proper patient placement. Facilitate doc to doc.

 • Assumes responsibility for professional growth. Obtains required annual continuing education. If applicable, keeps professional license up to date. Stays up to date with departmental changes by attending monthly staff meetings and reading emails. Completes learning lessons, Performance Evaluation (self eval and meets with leader) or licensure requirements (if applicable) before their due date. With approval by leadership, contributes to departmental or organizational projects. Complete assigned monthly audits.

 • Live the Promise Behaviors

• Utilize department digital platforms effectively: Telephone systems, tracking systems, electronic communication systems, imaging platforms, faxes, and electronic medical records.

• Create AM/PM Daily Sheet: Perform pre-authorizations and insurance verification for in-network transferring patients. Other duties as assigned. Promote the use of image retrieval systems to coordinate patient’s radiologic studies while in the transfer process.

• Monitor Daily: Teams, all emergent and non-emergent cases, pending cases for cancellation, phones, fax server, email platform, Pending requests, Accepted requests, Ground/Air Dashboard

• LVNs may answer the phone to facilitate a non-emergent transfer request.

Additional perks of being a Texas Health Transfer Center Specialist

· Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, student Loan forgiveness as well as several other benefits.

· Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.

· Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).

· A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.

·        Learn more about our culture, benefits, and recent awards.

Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org.

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