SUMMARY:
Our associates deliver a higher standard of business services to support medical care and behavioral health care. We maintain professionalism, integrity, and commitment as we solve problems and make lives easier.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Retrieve medical charts for all healthcare staff as requested
File daily all currently used medical records
Assure that charts are counter-signed by physician and checks charts for completeness
Releases information at the direction of the Sheriff, Site Nursing Supervisor, or Site Physician
Secures all active and inactive medical records
Answers telephone takes messages and makes telephone calls
Type’s letters, reports, and memorandums
Schedules off site appointments as requested by practitioner/nursing staff
Maintains a roster or appointment book based on scheduled appointments for both on-site and offsite appointments
Orders, receives, and maintains medical or office supplies
Adheres to safety and security policies and participates in disaster drills
Ability to deal with and respond to stressful situations in a stressful environment
Requires regular and reliable attendance
Ensure the confidentiality of all medical records information
Performs all clerical duties related to the assembling and maintaining of medical records, including
initiating records for new detainees
Maintains accountability for the location of any medical record on file, log in and out all record jackets
received or sent out
Maintains all files in established systems with all materials properly arranged and affixed within, filing
material as received
Directly responsible to pull records and deliver for clinical use, re-file records upon completion of use
Pulls records and performs studies as requested by the nursing supervisor
Assists with tracking of statistical data for CQI reports.
Completes reports and performs other duties as assigned by the Health Services Administrator/Site
Manager
Notifies supervisor and completes report for incidents or accidents
Any and all other duties as assigned