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Educator Coordinator - Sign-on Bonus Eligible

Munson Healthcare Careers, Traverse City, MI, United States


Job Description
A Day in the Life

Supports Patient Access Services by performing various registration related functions. Provides training and support of staff in these areas.

Promotes a team‑oriented, leadership role, guiding vision, goal‑oriented direction, and creativity within work teams. Assesses need, develops, and coordinates continuing education programs for discipline. Trains new hires after completion of their New Hire Class. Educates staff on changes in their work. Develops and administers competency tests for new hires and/or existing staff.

Participates in PAS System Education Committee to develop and improve educational objectives system‑wide. Develops annual skills day or competencies for staff based on need. Acts as a resource system‑wide specific to area of expertise. Utilizes operation reporting to identify areas of opportunity for improvement. Uses logic, data, and reasoning for decision making. Applies process improvement techniques, including LEAN thinking, in daily work processes.

Measures staff quality and productivity, reports on it to Regional Manager and System Director. Ensures metrics perform within established parameters. Responsible for Rejection/Denial worklists that represent errors in accounts made by registration. These worklists will be used to correct accounts and get them rebilled in a timely manner. Enforces staff performance expectations in accordance with departmental policy. Consults with Management in matters of non‑routine staffing and discipline.

Acts as a resource for process redesign. Works interdepartmentally with management support to solve process issues. Determines most effective means of dealing with patients/family, physicians, and visitors with varying attitudes and problems. Assists with resolution of inter‑ and intra‑departmental issues.

Facilitates and organizes daily staffing coverage and workflow for respective areas of responsibility, including preparation of a monthly work schedule. Coordinates on‑call staff when there are absences in the daily schedule, cover shifts on frontline when needed. Reviews bi‑weekly payroll timecards, maintains assorted attendance and overtime records, and presents to management in a timely manner for signature and processing.

Develops agenda and conducts staff meetings, covering all required topics. Maintains attendance and minutes for meetings. Ensures communication of minutes and follow forward on action assignments. Participates with Regional Manager interviewing and hiring for available positions. Works closely with other areas of the Revenue Cycle to assure excellent billing of accounts.

Participates in PAS System Leadership Meetings. Rotates weekend call as needed/required. May assume additional departmental responsibility in the absence of the Manager.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in health services administration or business‑related field. In lieu of a degree, consideration will be given to a candidate with 5 years' revenue cycle experience.

Five years’ leadership experience specific to discipline.

Benefits

Grow:

Tuition reimbursement, in‑person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance.

Thrive:

Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.

Be Well:

Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges.

Be Heard:

Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings.

Eligible for $3,000 sign‑on bonus.

Munson Healthcare requires all employees to be vaccinated or have lab‑confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.

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