Company Description
Location: 550 Munson Avenue, Traverse City MI
Schedule: Full Time Remote, 40 Hours Weekly - Monday to Friday 7:30 AM - 4:30 PM
More Than Just Care, It’s Community
Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties. If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material. To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.
Invested in You
- 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
Job Description
A Day in the Life
- Handles all future scheduling for the OR schedule including telephone requests, faxes and scheduling slips.
- Takes verbal add-on cases for current day, ascertaining all pertinent patient data.
- Communicates add-on cases and/or cancellations to O.R. coordinator and all other appropriate areas.
- Utilizes all aspects of computerized and non-computerized “OR Management” scheduling systems to coordinate formation of the daily surgical case scheduling.
- Is knowledgeable of the block scheduling system rules and regulations and is able to utilize that system to enter surgical cases accordingly.
- Coordinates the order of surgical cases taking into consideration shared resources, personnel availability, surgeon preferences.
- Communicates confirmation numbers of scheduled cases to physicians' office staff using right fax.
- Notifies surgeons/offices of their surgery times for the next day’s procedures.
- Notifies Inventory Control Specialist of all specialty items needed for boarded procedures.
- Communicates daily with O.R. coordinators/O.R. Manager and Anesthesia about problems/conflicts/ special requests.
- Responsible to access department communications daily utilizing telephone voicemail and/or e-mail.
Qualifications
What’s Required
- High school graduate required.
- Associate's degree and/or 3 years of experience in a hospital or health related field with focus on medical registration and medical terminology strongly desired.
- Must be proficient in MS Word with knowledge of Windows based applications and possess a proven ability to effectively use multiple computer systems.
- Previous Operating Room scheduling or unit clerk experience desired.
Additional Information
- This is a remote position and the candidate must live in the state of Michigan!
- Are you Munson Material? Apply today!
- Munson Healthcare requires all employees 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.