Registration Clerk – Emergency Room

Job Summary:

Greet and register Emergency room patients while assisting all other emergency room personnel as needed.

characteristic job tasks and responsibilities:

· Greet, interview triage, and register ER patients; including obtaining all signatures, updating demographical information, and verifying insurance eligibility.

· Perform Cashier functions by collecting co-payments, counting cash drawer, providing change.

· Assist with outpatient registration, obtaining medical records, all intercoms, switch board after departmental business hours, and paging of physicians.

· Provide Clerical Assistance for the Emergency Department by scanning, filing, obtaining records, and completing tear down chart

· Distribute OBS Brochures as necessary.

· Assist Emergency Room Nurse and Physician as requested; such as assisting patients per RN or Physician instruction, obtaining wheelchairs, collecting urine specimens, cleaning beds, and copying charts for transfers.

· Assist Ambulance Service as needed; such as answering phone, open/close garage door, meet as they arrive, answer Ambulance Med patch.

· Set up arrangements for transfer by calling Transfer Center as well as helicopter transports.

· Monitor panel alarms and security cameras.

· Announce Fire Alarms.

· Notify departments of Cardiac Arrest.

· Contact on call Administrative personnel as needed.

· Assist in finding nursing staff coverage when needed.

· Complete transfer sheets and daily counts for Administration office.

· Assist Acute Care Unit with scanning living wills and POA’s.

· Verify room and bed census with nursing floors nightly.

· Call outside services such as Poison Control and Chaplain as needed.

· Snow removal and/or salting when needed.

· Assist with other tasks as assigned by the manager.

LECOM Health’s full time employees enjoy the availability of an industry leading benefits package along with competitive wages. Enhanced benefits include Highmark Blue Cross / Blue Shield Health Insurance starting at only $55 a month! Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance is provided to all Full Time employees at no cost. The Health System also offers an excellent 403(b) Retirement Plan to all qualified employees with an employer match after completing one year of service.

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