Surgery Coordinator

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Responsibilities

• Maintains inventory of supplies and IOL’s
• Set up for surgery and checks in patients; helps prepare patients the morning of surgery if needed
• Assures that medications are checked monthly for outdates
• Acts as primary liaison for Medicare inspections
• Maintains communication and relays all memos to surgery staff
• Ensures maintenance of the surgery log and ensures accuracy and delivery of care slips to the Business Office Responsible for working the surgery hold bucket
• Acts as contact person for surgery day and surgery issues for surgeons, other staff, and Office Manager
• Answers incoming phone calls
• Checks charts prior to surgery, and assembles charts post op to ensure they have all required signatures and proper order of paperwork
• Makes Post op phone calls and logs information
• Prints schedules and arranges the order of the surgery schedules 2 days prior to surgery day
• Call patients with arrival times and reminds them of surgery day instructions
• Enters the surgery log and completes log at the end of the day
• Notifies the Director of Surgical Services and/or ASC Assistant of any scheduling or staffing problems
• Conducts quarterly fire drills and mock codes, and documents the results

Qualifications

• Experience working in a surgical environment
• Ophthalmic experience is a plus
• Knowledge of scheduling and insurance authorization is required
• Ability to work independently and be dedicated to patient satisfaction
• Must also have the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and written, and work compatibly with physicians and other staff members
• Excellent telephone skills, basic computer knowledge are required
• Ability to travel to Bullhead City ASC location as needed - travel time and mileage are a paid benefits!
• Must have availability to work between the hours of 6:00 am to 6:30 pm occasionally on surgery days