Clinical Program Coordinator

Clinical Nurse Coordinator

As part of the Heart and Vascular Administration team, the Clinical Nurse Coordinator ensures accurate, complete, and timely submission of clinical data to national cardiovascular registries (NCDR and VQI). This role plays a key part in performance monitoring and quality improvement initiatives within the heart and vascular service line. This is an excellent opportunity to provide patient impact through quality improvement.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Review electronic medical records to extract, validate, and submit data to national registries (NCDR, VQI).
• Support supervisor, management, and performance improvement teams on quality and data projects.
• Train and mentor new and existing abstraction staff; provide ongoing updates on evolving registry guidelines.
• Serve as subject matter expert for abstraction processes, including inclusion/exclusion criteria, validation rules, and submission time-lines.
• Conduct inter-rater reliability and quality audits to ensure data accuracy and regulatory compliance.
• Maintain current knowledge of abstraction standards from CMS, The Joint Commission, and AHA Get With The Guidelines, programs.
• Daily interaction with Excel, EPIC, Metric reporting and presentations
• Prior experience with NCDR, VQI or similar national registries is a plus!
• Prior experience with cardiovascular, vascular, or operating room nursing is preferred

Location/Schedule

• Work From Home position
• Local Candidates required
• Monday through Friday days with some flexibility

BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri regions. With net revenues of $6.3billion and more than 30,000 employees, BJC serves patients and their families in urban, suburban and rural communities through its 14hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice.

BJC is the largest provider of charity care, unreimbursed care and community benefits in the state of Missouri. BJC and its hospitals and health service organizations provide $785.9 million annually in community benefit. That includes $410.6 million in charity care and other financial assistance to patients to ensure medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, BJC provides additional community benefits through commitments to research, emergency preparedness, regional health care safety net services, health literacy, community outreach and community health programs and regional economic development.

BJCs patients have access to the latest advances in medical science and technology through a formal affiliation between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Childrens Hospital with the renowned Washington University School of Medicine, which consistently ranks among the top medical schools in the country.

Coordinates the health care of select patient populations/designated service across the continuum of care. Responsible for coordination of patient contact, patient education, prepares patient/family for procedure/test in collaboration with the healthcare team.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates patient care by assessing and evaluating patient's physical, psychosocial and emotional needs.
• Coordinates the delivery of safe and appropriate patient care governed by evidence-based clinical practice.
• Monitors care and data to optimize patient outcomes.
• Facilitate the education of patients and families. Acts as a resource to the health care team.
• Ensures actions meet and support the overall goals of the business.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Nursing Diploma/Associate's - Nursing

Experience

• 2-5 years

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

• RN

Preferred Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree - Nursing

Benefits and Legal Statement

At BJC we're committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to our Benefits Summary.

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer