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1. Assesses, directs and coordinates transfers and admissions from physician offices, hospitals, and other healthcare settings to the most appropriate accepting service, facility, and level of care.

2. Facilitates patient placement by assessing patient diagnosis, acuity and location, applicable risk factors and unit criteria/bed availability.

3. Collaborates with the facility departments, medical staff, nursing staff, and leadership to promote appropriate, timely patient placement so that patient care is not delayed. Collaborates with facility staff to identify and communicate bed capacity issues.

4. Leverages capacity dashboards and other real-time indicators to predict future patient placement pressure points and participates in the execution of surge-capacity protocols; and initiating interventions, within scope of practice, to accelerate patient flow or other mitigating barriers to optimal throughput.

5. Assists with all aspects of patient logistics to include pre-registration, transportation, and bed planning; collects unit specific data, and information needed to access and place patients appropriately.

6. Adheres to regulatory compliance with all Command Center operations, including Stark, EMTALA, and any other pertinent to Call Center activities. Maintains current knowledge of regulatory requirements impacting operations of the Command Center.

7. Provides timely and accurate transfer and admission documentation.

8. Works collaboratively with ourproviders, by taking orders, and key stakeholdersin the development and maintenance of transfer and admission pathways for our patients.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements list must be representative of the knowledge, skills, minimum education, training, licensure, experience, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Demonstrates expertise and resourcefulness in level of care requirements, advanced nursing assessments, bed capacity management, service line capabilities, and acceptance pathways by care site.

• Demonstrates expertise in development, implementation and evaluation of specific transfer and bed management program.

• Demonstrates a high degree of critical thinking, problem solving and negotiating skills.

• Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively with all interdisciplinary team members, referrals agencies, patients, families, and other services.

• Demonstrates excellent customer service and professional administrative skills.

• Regular attendance to perform work on site during regularly scheduled business hours or scheduled shifts is required

• Ability to work nights and/or weekends is required for identified positions