This position represents patient care directed toward pediatric critical care areas; step down areas, and general care areas

Answers telephones, greeting all callers in a professional manner. Responsible for facilitating referral to area physicians, hospitals and community services. Listens to requests from patients or customers and accurately dispatches requests and information to the appropriate persons. Accurately communicates and dispatches Emergency Codes utilizing the Aionex Focus system. Promptly and accurately initiates offline procedures when indicated. Responsibilities include maintaining equipment, activity logs and checklists. Answers multiple incoming telephone lines to the hospital switchboard. Obtains necessary information and transfers calls to correct department or patient room extension. Provides information to callers as appropriate

Provides expertise in vascular assessment, deciding on appropriate device for patient specific needs.  Provides PIV for difficult access, inserts Midlines and EJ devices when needed.  Provides a teaching environment at bedside as needed.

The lactation consultant will practice in a manner that protects, promotes and supports breastfeeding. LC will use and communicate current evidence-based information. LC will recognize and respect philosophical, cultural, and ethical perspectives influencing the use and delivery of breastfeeding care and services. LC will seek coordination and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams of health professionals (staff nurse, MD). Works with nursing staff on assessments to maximize data needed for proper care plan development and intervention. Understand the evidenced-based Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding Knowledgeable and skilled in the physiology and clinical management of breastfeeding....

The Patient Care Aide(PCA) works under the direction of the RN/LPN. The responsibilities of the Patient Care Aide include providing direct patient care and maintaining patient care standards. The Patient Care Aide must exhibit the ability to work with people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds; to organize, set priorities and manage multiple priorities, and to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.

Acts as collaborative member of the clinical team in providing continuity of and quality patient care. Initiates patient care, gathers vital signs, prepares patient and exam room for procedures, and collects specimens. Provides patient education and support as needed to assist physician, patient and family. Assists coworkers and draws blood as needed.

Provides medical nutrition care to patients through nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention and education utilizing evidence based guidelines.  Develops care plans with appropriate follow-up and reassessment of intervention. Manages the total nutritional care of patients receiving Enteral Nutrition. Assess and diagnose patients for malnutrition.

Greets the public, patients, and families.  Obtains and enters demographic and financial information for all patient types.  Handles all customer service issues in a customer friendly manner.  Accurately listens and responds appropriately to address and resolve issues at hand.  Must ensure all paperwork is checked for registration accuracy.   Must continually enhance knowledge regarding processes in order to train new hires and existing employees.  Should show initiative in administrative process improvement.  Must collect required fees from patients or authorized representatives.  Responsible for daily operations.  Must be flexible to work as...

Greets the public, patients, and families. Obtains and enters demographic, financial and registration information for all patient types. Handles all customer service issues in a customer friendly manner. Must collect required fees from patients or authorized representatives. Must be flexible to work as scheduled or needed, which may include alternate shifts, weekends, holidays, and being on call. This is an administrative job.

Greets the public, patients, and families.  Obtains and enters demographic and financial information for all patient types.  Handles all customer service issues in a customer friendly manner.  Accurately listens and responds appropriately to address and resolve issues at hand.  Must ensure all paperwork is checked for registration accuracy.   Must continually enhance knowledge regarding processes in order to train new hires and existing employees.  Should show initiative in administrative process improvement.  Must collect required fees from patients or authorized representatives.  Responsible for daily operations.  Must be flexible to work as...

The Manager of Patient Liability will oversee self-pay AR for Huntsville Hospital Health System and will develop/implement policies or initiatives that support increased patient collections, reduction of refunds and decreased bad debt. The Manager will assure hospital compliance with the Affordable Care Act and its regulations pertaining to our business. This leadership role is responsible for the leadership and direction of approximately 15 direct staff member

Reviews and audits accounts located in contract management system on a daily basis to resolve and maintain collection status on an account prior to escalating to Team Lead for further review. Reviews and processes commercial accounts through contract/denial management system. Verifies eligibility, corrects and resubmits claim, and files third party insurances as necessary by adding/updating insurance information to host system. Utilizes denial management system and responds to requests from insurance carrier for additional information necessary to process claims. Reviews EOB's in contract management system and determines accurate account balance, detailed denial description, and applicable appeal process. Identifies and corrects transactions, such as invalid...

Reviews and audits accounts located in contract management system on a daily basis to resolve and maintain collection status on an account prior to escalating to Team Lead for further review. Reviews and processes commercial accounts through contract/denial management system. Verifies eligibility, corrects and resubmits claim, and files third party insurances as necessary by adding/updating insurance information to host system. Utilizes denial management system and responds to requests from insurance carrier for additional information necessary to process claims. Reviews EOB's in contract management system and determines accurate account balance, detailed denial description, and applicable appeal process. Identifies and corrects transactions, such as invalid...

Acts as collaborative member of the clinical team in providing continuity of and quality patient care. Responsible for registration, insurance verification, scheduling, and answering of telephone. Initiates patient care assessments, gathers vital signs, prepares patient and exam room for procedures, and collects specimens.  Provides patient education and support as needed to assist physician, patient and family.  Returns patient phone calls.

Maintains established standards of care, policies, objective, and goals in administering professional nursing care to all patients. The RN identifies patient needs and priorities for care through assessment. The RN plans and delegates care based on patient needs. The RN evaluates the patient’s response to care and the attainment of or progress toward expected outcomes. The RN is accountable for outcomes of patient care delivered during the assigned shift.

The Pre-Certification Representative is responsible for obtaining approval from insurance companies for services that require referral, pre-certification or prior authorization.  All job functions are performed in a manner that promotes the highest level of compliance with various legal, regulatory and accreditation requirements while maintaining all protected health information in manner that complies with HIPAA requirements.

The Patient Care Aide works under the direction of the RN/LPN. The responsibilities of the Patient Care Aide include providing direct patient care and maintaining patient care standards. The Patient Care Aide must exhibit the ability to work with people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds; to organize, set priorities and manage multiple priorities, and to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.

AICU is an 8-bed Medical/Surgical Adult ICU at the Huntsville Hospital for Women/Children campus. Orientation consists of working with an experienced staff and length of orientation is typically 6-12 weeks depending on experience. AICU is the only adult critical care unit at the Women/Children campus. The AICU offers a challenging workflow for RN’s.  AICU receives a variety of patients that includes primarily critical Medical patients, but also Antepartum, Postpartum, GYN Oncology, GYN, ENT, and any adult patient at WC that requires intensive monitoring.  The RN’s in AICU are trained to care for a variety of critical situations including hemorrhage, critical OB, CRRT, ventilators, and titrating drips.  We have 4-beds wired for fetal...

Performs support role for essential clinic functions. Performs assigned duties including cleaning equipment, infection control tasks, and supply management and organization. Performs other tasks as assigned to assist and support the clinical team. Environmental services/cleaning.

The Infant Hearing Screener is responsible for performing hearing screens on neonates prior to discharge.  He/she is also responsible for documenting screening results in the medical record and entering screening data into the Hearing Screen Computer database. Other responsibilities may include but are not limited to patient care tech and secretarial tasks within the Pediatric Therapy and Audiology department