Detailed responsibilities:
- PAY ASSISTANCE - Upon referral from various sources, assists with meals, lodging, and transportation; identifies payment sources and completing forms (SSI/ISD) to facilitate appropriate admissions and timely discharges
- PAY ASSISTANCE - Makes phone contacts with appropriate agencies to get funds for meals, lodging, and other services
- PAY ASSISTANCE - Assists with meal ticket billing
- PAY ASSISTANCE - Develops and maintains resources for local psycho-social health related services
- DATA ENTRY - Use computer to access and input patient information
- ADMINISTRATION - Documents patient care services; completes statistics
- PATIENT SAFETY 1 - Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols
- PATIENT SAFETY 2 - Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
- PATIENT SAFETY 3 - Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
- PATIENT SAFETY 4 - Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner
- PATIENT SAFETY 5 - Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"