Ascension Borgess HospitalAccess Coordinator
Sep. 2023Working closely with nurses and other access coordinator assigning patients with admission orders to the appropriate unit based on their visit reason/diagnoses, entering electronic orders from patient charts, upgrading them from observation to inpatient status, billing coding, updating the attending and admitting doctors in patient charts, admitting and discharging patients from the census and doing census control, making sure each patient is showing up in the appropriate unit census. Registering patients being transferred from outlying hospitals and creating their new electronic chart in order for physicians to put in pre orders. Putting the patient in the hospital census upon their arrival. Staffing on the side, taking in call ins, putting in pick ups in Kronos and communicating promptly to the House Supervisor and charge RNs of staff call ins and pick ups. Logging all calls in the communication log.