Radiology MRI Patient Coordinator Part-Time Weekends
Jamaica Plain, MA - USA
Job Summary
Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals including doctors nurses business people tech experts researchers and systems analysts to advance our mission. As a not-for-profit we support patient care research teaching and community service striving to provide exceptional care. We believe that high-performing teams drive groundbreaking medical discoveries and invite all applicants to join us and experience what it means to be part of Mass General Brigham.
Job Summary
Part-Time Weekends: Saturday and Sunday 7:00am - 3:30pmThe MR Patient Coordinator under the direction of the MR supervisor who reports to the Radiology Program Manager and Director of Radiology assists in the MR workflow by scheduling Emergency and Inpatient MR scans answering phones preparing patients for scans phone screening paging Radiologists and providers as needed and other related tasks The coordinator will perform clinical tasks utilizing EPIC to assist in safe patient scanning under the technologists guidance. The Coordinator should be team orientated and comfortable with multi-tasking while maintaining quality safety and patient satisfaction.
PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assists in communication requests from outside providers by answering and transferring phone calls as needed
- Makes screening phone calls for MR exams and procedures as required
- Schedule same day add-on ED and inpatient MR requests into the schedule worklist
- Proficient use of the EMR for history lab and allergy look-up and documentation
- Assist in MR Room turn-over
- Patient ambulatory wheelchair and stretcher transport as needed
- Assist in safe patient transfer from stretcher and MR bed
- Reviewing MR exam orders to ensure all required documentation is included
- Confirm when required on all MR orders
a. Order matches signs/symptoms
b. All required orders are in place
c. Prior authorization is in place
d. Labs are available or ordered
e. Contrast allergies are highlighted
f. MR safety screening form completed
- Ensures insurance prior authorizations have been acquired. Communicates with managed care staff and physicians offices as needed to secure authorizations
- Performs all other duties as assigned or required to ensure efficient operation of the department and quality patient care
Qualifications
- High school diploma required
- Associates degree preferred
- BCLS preferred
- Staff adheres to all I. C.A.R.E. Standards
- Must be able to multi-task and think in a proactive manner
- Excellent organizational skills
- Interpersonal skills to communicate and interact effectively
- Work in an area that can be noisy and have temperature/ humidity variations
- Continuous sitting and standing
- Must be able to Lift 25lbs
Additional Job Details (if applicable)
Grade: 125
Brigham and Womens Faulkner Hospital an affiliate of Mass General Brigham is committed to supporting patient care research teaching and service to the community. We place great value on being a diverse equitable and inclusive organization as we aim to reflect the diversity of the patients we serve. At Mass General Brigham we believe in equal access to quality care employment and advancement opportunities encompassing the full spectrum of human diversity: race gender identity sexual orientation ability religion ethnicity national origin and all the other forms of human presence and expression that make us better able to provide innovative and cutting-edge healthcare and research.
Brigham and Womens Faulkner Hospital is a 171- bed non-profit community teaching hospital located in Jamaica Plain directly across the street from the Arnold Arboretum. Founded in 1900 Brigham and Womens Faulkner Hospital offers comprehensive care in a wide variety of specialties. Brigham and Womens Faulkner Hospital is a designated Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center a recognition that fewer than nine percent of all US hospitals receive.
At Brigham and Womens Faulkner Hospital we believe that everyone should have the chance to live a healthy life. From creating breakthroughs that have paved the way for treatments around the globe to training the next generation of providers our patients and those we may never meet are at the center of everything we do. If youre looking for more than a career join Brigham and Womens Faulkner Hospital. Our patients call it better care. Our employees call it home.
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$18.44 - $27.39/HourlyGrade
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Patients at Mass General have access to a vast network of physicians, nearly all of whom are Harvard Medical School faculty and many of whom are leaders within their fields.