Banner Ironwood Offers Quality Health Care forPinal County
Banner Ironwood Medical Center is looking for you!
Banner Ironwood Medical Center receivedBanner’s “Best of the Best” Awardin 2013 & 2014 for Outstanding Clinical Outcomes and Patient Experience Ratings.
MEDICAL STAFF COORDINATOR POSITION
POSITION SUMMARY
This position provides highly skilled support via liaison representation to committees, medical staff departments, physicians, and other hospital personnel under moderate supervision.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
1. Coordinates all aspects of assigned medical staff committees including compiling agenda material, accurately documenting minutes, compiling follow-up memos and letters, researching and preparing information for chairs, and providing professional assistance to various chairmen regarding privileging, credentialing, reappointment, and medical staff rules and regulations as outlined in the medical staff bylaws.
2. In consultation with the director, provides administrative support for hearing committees. Serves as a resource for medical staff members regarding medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations, hospital and medical staff policies, regulatory requirements and parliamentary procedure. Assists in drafting correspondence ensuring compliance with established bylaws, rules and regulations. May coordinate GME and/or CME functions and processes.
3. Under direction, liaises between medical staff and administration, communicating sensitive and confidential issues including peer review. Interacts directly with a variety of internal and external customers. Uses judgment and discretion to maintain peer review protection to hospital and medical staff.
4. Understands and maintains an accurate, secure and updated database of physician and allied health information to query on basic demographic profiles including but not limited to staff privileges and status for other hospital departments and facilities requiring this information. Uses various internal databases to gather and analyze physician and allied health data used in the reappointment, peer review and quality improvement processes of the medical staff and board of directors.
5. Coordinates processing of all aspects of physician and allied health credentialing and reappointment processes within appropriate timeframes ensuring the quality of the practitioners providing patient care. Assures the completeness and accurateness of the credentialing process. Requests additional information from external medical if necessary. May obtain and log expired credentials on a monthly basis according to rules and policies. Monitors the progress of physicians through the supervision period, assisting department chairs with the appropriate procedures, forms and time limits.
6. Collects and compiles data for physician and allied health quality profiles to analyze practice patterns using data to determine performance. This includes working with senior staff, department chairmen, quality staff, and other hospital staff to identify sources of data and methods of presenting and analyzing data.
7. Manages the preparation, distribution and maintenance of the physician emergency department call schedules.
Performs all functions according to established policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, as well as applicable professional standards. Provides all customers of Banner Health with an excellent service experience by consistently demonstrating our core and leader behaviors each and every day.
SCOPE AND COMPLEXITY
Requires high degree of confidentiality and critical decision making. Requires moderate direction and guidance. Has complex relationships with members of the administrative staff of the hospital, members of the medical and affiliated staff, medical staff officers, medical staff department chairs, section chiefs, physician and other professional applicants, attorneys, medical staff professionals at other facilities, state licensing bodies, other departmental personnel and patients. All require courtesy, tact, patience, cooperation and confidentiality.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Must possess strong knowledge of medical office administration as normally obtained through 1-2 years experience in a healthcare, paralegal, managed care or credentialing. Requires knowledge of medical terminology and professional physician interface. Requires experience interacting with physicians in highly sensitive situations. Must possess strong verbal and written communication skills. Requires astute judgment in human relations skills to interface and communicate in an articulate manner with medical staff, administrators, legal counsel and hospital personnel.
Requires the ability to work with common office software and equipment.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Two years of college education is preferred. National Certification as a Medical Staff Services Professional is preferred. Knowledge of medical staff computer software programs is desirable.
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.
MORE ABOUT BANNER IRONWOOD MEDICAL CENTER:
Health Care for a Growing Community
Banner Health recognizesthe growing health care needs in PinalCounty and the Southeast Valley. Our80-acre Banner Ironwood Medical Centercampus at Combs and Gantzel roads, nextto the Town ofQueen Creek,offers astate-of-the-art hospital and other associated services.
Banner Ironwoodfeatures47 private rooms and focuses onemergency services, obstetrics,surgeryand general medical care.
We offer a patient-centered approach, featuring all the amenities of a hotel and the highest quality of health care available.
This includes services such as:
· A full-service Emergency department
· Inpatient beds devoted to intensive care and medical/surgical care
· A Maternitydepartmentwith four labor/delivery/recovery rooms and two Caesarian-section suites,plus a Level II Nursery for babies needing a little extra care.
· Four large surgical suites with high-intensity LED lighting and screens with super-sharp imaging
· Medical imaging services including X-ray, MRI, CT and ultrasound
Room to Grow with the Community
Banner Ironwood isbuilt to expand quickly with community growth. Our first patient tower has47beds and canaccommodate up to 86 beds when fully equipped. In total, more than 500 beds and supporting health services could be built on oursite.
Banner Ironwood Medical Center is part of anetwork of Banner Health medical centers designed to meet the East Valley's growing health care needs.
About Banner Health
Banner Health is a comprehensive, award-winning, nonprofit health system with facilities in seven western states. Throughout our network of hospitals, primary care health centers, research centers, labs, physician practices, and much more, our skilled and compassionate professionals use the latest technology to change the way care is provided. The many locations, career opportunities and benefits offered at Banner Health help to make the Banner Journey unique and fulfilling for every employee.
FTE / 40 hr/wk: (1.000)
Work Schedule / Day
Exempt from Overtime / Exempt
Banner Ironwood Medical Center
37000 N. Gantzel Road
San Tan Valley, AZ 85140
East of Queen Creek at the corner ofGantzel and Combs roads
For more information on the position please contact Oscar Chavez, Recruiter at 602 747 2135 or Karen Salas at