**Employment Type:**
Full time
**Shift:**
Rotating Shift

**Description:**

**GENERAL SUMMARY:**

The RN Patient Flow Coordinator is responsible for appropriately placing patients, based on diagnosis and physician preference, with consideration of bed availability and oversees the incoming calls of the One Call Center and working with protocols, triages and transfers those calls appropriately to facilitate the admission of patients to Mercy Medical Center.

**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:**

· Monitors patient admissions to assure appropriate patient placement

· Focuses on efficient bed utilization when assigning beds, based on patient diagnosis, special needs, physician preference and bed availability.

· Conducts admission reviews per the UM plan related to level of care changes, to assure that hospitalization is warranted based on established criteria.

· Utilizes knowledge of current census information and potential i...