ED Communication Specialist Full Time Days Job at Tenet Healthcare in Detroit

Job Title and Reference

Job Description - ED Communication Specialist Full Time Days (2506001979)

Overview

DMC Sinai‑Grace Hospital is DMC’s largest hospital, offering a comprehensive heart center, cancer care, gerontology, emergency medicine, obstetrics/gynecology and cosmetic services. Sinai‑Grace’s joint replacement program features a revolutionary minimally invasive knee and hip replacement surgery that attracts patients from all over the country. Sinai‑Grace operates more than 21 outpatient care sites and ambulatory surgery centers throughout Wayne and Oakland Counties and is one of 10 hospitals in the nation to be awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to help set the standards of cardiac care for hospitals and physicians throughout the nation.

Job Summary

The Communication Specialist will staff the Communication Center in the emergency department at Detroit Receiving Hospital. The Communication Center is located in the emergency department at Detroit Receiving Hospital and functions to centralize and streamline communication between DMC hospital sites and the surrounding area. It will house all outside communication equipment utilized to receive notification of critical patient transports, disasters, or mass casualty events and accommodate the Personal Computer‑Based Emergency Management (EM) System used during major incidents in Michigan for tracking patient movement from the scene to the hospital. The goal of the Communication Center is to expedite incoming patient transfers from external facilities and communicate to the ED staff the patient’s condition prior to arrival.

Job Duties

• Expedites and coordinates all transfers from external facilities.
• Coordinates and activates STEMI process, stroke team notification, major communicable disease response team, chempack team, decontamination team, and all communications from outside agencies regarding acts of bio‑terrorism/decontamination/code yellow; activates trauma pager.
• Handles operations of all communication equipment utilized to receive notification of critical patient transports, disasters, or mass casualty events by responding to HEAR radio, Region 2 South 800 MHz HEMS radio, life‑net RS 12‑lead receiving stations, care point receiving monitor, UHF receiving station, telemetry, EM TRAX, EMResource.
• Maintains appropriate log sheets and data.
• Attends appropriate trauma systems monthly meetings.
• Provides telemetry response.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High School graduation or equivalent.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification.
• State of Michigan license for Emergency Medical Technician.
• One or two years experience as EMT, preferred.
• Dispatch certification recommended, not required.

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