Admissions & Disposition Clerk

Decypher is a leading integrator of professional, technology, and management solutions and services. We provide our services globally to Federal, Commercial, Local and State clients. Our employees are our most valuable asset and play an integral role in the success of Decypher and our clients. Working at Decypher is not a job, but a career where your talent and energy is respected, and you can personally make a difference. Decypher invites you to join our professional team.

Decypher is seeking an Admissions & Dispositions Clerk to support Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. U.S. Citizenship is required.

Qualifications

• Education/Degree: High School Degree or General Educational Development (GED) equivalency and Medical Terminology.

At Decypher we believe that equal opportunity fuels innovation by using the strengths of individual differences. Therefore, we strive to provide a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decypher is fully committed to a program of equal opportunity for all applicants and employees and will actively carry out all federal and state regulations and executive orders. We apply our equal opportunity policy to all employment decisions.

Responsibilities

• Receives and screens telephone calls; receives walk-in patients; responds to various general and routine medical, personnel and administrative inquires, and escorts patients as necessary.
• Creates preadmission charts and completes the process in the electronic medical record or government systems in accordance with regulation and local policy and procedure.
• Provides advance directives, third party liability documentation, and other forms for patient to complete for inclusion into impatient medical record.
• Tracks and reports daily patient movement, bed status and ward transfers.
• Corrects admission errors.
• Assists in coordinating patient transfers from other wards or to outside facilities.
• Tracks and reports all casualty reports and notifications in accordance with Government policies and procedures.
• Screen, record, and redirect telephone calls each month for the MTF. Messages will be taken to include person's name and telephone number, and information relayed to appropriate staff within 10 minutes.
• Schedule patient follow-up appointments in the appropriate clinic each month during patient discharge upon provider's request.
• Utilize MTF Electronic Medical Records system to verify, update and enter patient demographics (name, address, home/work telephone numbers, sponsor SSN, patient SSN, date of birth and health insurance information) for all patients.
• Verify all encounters to ensure they contain the required information for reporting purposes each day. Forms shall be reviewed for accuracy, scanned, and corrected daily.
• Print out forms, patient labels for all Level 1 trauma patients.
• Scan documents and enter them appropriately into the patients MTF Electronic Medical Records system, this should be completed within 24 hours of completion of care.
• Contact in-hospital clinics, for eligible patients to be referred back to their primary care manager, as requested.
• Utilize the communication center to page any consultant services that a provider may need.
• Contact the MRI, Ultrasound, Radiology and CT departments for patients needing these services.
• Notify the Emergency Department supply person of needed administrative supplies.
• Assist all Emergency Medical Services in obtaining additional demographic information, as needed.
• Participate in all drills conducted in the Emergency Department to include trauma, mass casualty and code blue drills.
• Utilize ESO suite to pull Onslow Emergency Services reports to upload into the patients MTF Electronic Medical Records system.
• Accurately register all new patients that present to the Emergency Department.
• Complete the Daily Count report nightly for the Nurse of the Day (NOD) which consists of statistics and disposition on each patient that presents to the Emergency Department.
• Ensure the disposition of each patient that has presented to the Emergency Department is accurate.
• Send certified letter to patients regarding abnormal results if the Clinical Nurse Specialist, Provider or designated Nurse is unable to contact the patient via telephone number.
• Initiate proper procedures for all activated trauma patients, Levels 1, 2, & 3.
• Observe during activated traumas to ensure all appropriate respondents are present and notify the Communication Center if they are not.
• Enter consults/referrals for patients needing specialty follow-up care.
• Ensure proper forms are submitted to Prevantative Medicine to include rabies exposure forms, CDC forms, health/cold injury forms, etc.
• Review patient records for accuracy, completeness, and proper patient identification.

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. Therefore, the employee may be requested to perform other reasonable duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor or other management as required.

Note: This position is expected to be filled at a later date. Applications are still encouraged, and qualified candidates will be contacted when the hiring process begins.