Trauma Coordinator - Casual

OPEN POSITION:

Position: Trauma Coordinator

Department: Trauma

Location: Cass City, MI

Hours: Casual. Days.

The Trauma Registrar is responsible for the collection, abstraction, and submission of required state and national trauma data bank elements into the Trauma Registry database on all patients meeting state or national trauma inclusion criteria.

REQUIREMENTS:

• High School Diploma and/or equivalent required.
• Completion of the American Association of Automotive Medicine AIS Course.
• Three years of responsible work experience in a healthcare related field.
• A solid understanding of medical terminology, ICD-10CM/PCS coding systems, and anatomy.
• One year coding experience OR previous experience working with trauma registry.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Performs basic data collection of demographics and coding of clinical and follow-up data from all sources into trauma registry database.
• Interacts with physicians, nurses, and other members of the trauma team and trauma patients to perform trauma registry functions.
• Keeps registry current as defined by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) as 80% complete within 60 days of patient discharge.
• Determines appropriateness of patient entry into the Trauma Registry based on guidelines in the American College of Surgeons “Resources for the Optimal Care of the Injured Patient” as well as the National Trauma Data Standard.
• Provides high quality data entry by abstraction of required state and national trauma data elements from the patient chart in real time and retrospectively.

"We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law."