• Admits patients by supervising hospital admissions; orienting patients, relatives, and families to the hospital admission process and information requirements.
• Accomplishes admissions human resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees, communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions, recommending compensation actions, adhering to policies and procedures.
• Meets admissions operational standards by contributing information to strategic plans and reviews, implementing productivity, quality and customer-service standards, resolving problems and identifying system improvements.
• Accomplishes high bed occupancy by following procedures and policies to assure high bed occupancy and control bed availability and patient traffic, identifying and monitoring potential problem clerical or system practices.
• Resolves admissions conflicts by identifying potential conflicts, analyzing issues, conferring with physicians on admissions priorities and bed availability, engaging others to obtain information or to offer assistance.
• Assures accuracy of patient data, conducting and reviewing daily audits of previous day’s patient’s data and other information.
• Keeps patients, relatives, visitors and admitting staff informed by communicating admitting rules, regulations policies and procedures.
• Enhances patient care delivery system by implementing admissions function interface with the nursing and professional staff, implementing admissions functions with the emergency room, out-patient clinic, special care units and other systems.
• Serves and protects the hospital community by ensuring adherence to professional standards, and hospital policies and procedures.
• Identifies current and future patient admissions requirements by establishing personal rapport with patients, their families and relatives, conducting de-briefing sessions with staff and reporting findings.
• Accomplishes hospital goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests, exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments