PI Coordinator

The PI Coordinator will assist the PI/QR/RM Director with compliance auditing and monitoring activities within the hospital to ensure the documentation requirements, processes and policies as set by hospital administration are followed.

• Performs audits (including detailed audits of patient medical records).
• Communicates audit findings and recommendations to PI/QR/RM Director.
• Creates reports based on audit results.
• Maintains a working knowledge of Federal and State laws, regulations and policies applicable.
• Participates in meetings/training as assigned or requested.
• Upholds the Organization's ethics and customer service standards.

Education - High School degree or equivalent required. Bachelor's degree preferred.

Experience – Significant exposure to Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement and regulations, internal auditing, healthcare, operations, patient care plans and medical records laws and fraud and abuse laws highly desired.

Required Licenses – RN or LVN license. Current CPR upon hire. BLS and Handle with Care certifications a plus.

Additional Requirements - Must provide proof of approved (AHA/ARC) current CPR maintain approved CPR certification prior to hire as well as successful completion of Management of Assaultive Behavior training including restraint and seclusion policies prior to assuming patient care responsibility. Must maintain current CPR and Handle with Care. Violators will be suspended up to termination if not compliant within 1 week of expiration.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

·         Must have basic PC skills that include a combination of working in a Windows Operating System and Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel.

·         Ability to accurately enter data, prepare and maintain records, files, and reports.

·         Outstanding skills in giving attention to details with display of dexterity in maintaining confidentiality.

·         Communicate effectively with a variety of individuals and function calmly in situations, which require a high degree of sensitivity, tact, and diplomacy.

·         Ability to exercise appropriate judgment in answering questions and releasing information; analyze and project consequences of decisions and/or recommendations.

·         Skill to independently interpret reference materials to comply with law, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.

·         Ability to apply time management practices to prioritize, schedule and complete work effectively to comply with mandated policies and deadlines.

·         Ability to work on multiple tasks or parts of tasks simultaneously to ensure timely completion of work activities.

Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions

With or without reasonable accommodations, must be able to stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, stand for sustained period of time, walk, pull, lift, raise and move objects from position to position (up to 50 lbs.), finger grasp; feel sizes, shapes, temperatures, and textures; express or exchange ideas orally and potentially loudly, accurately, or quickly; visually detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, assess; perceive the nature of sound with or without correction; perform repetitive motions of the wrist, hands, or fingers. Light work most of the time, exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently; and occasionally medium work, that is exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently.

Ability to stoop, kneel, lift moving about in work area and throughout organization to accomplish task. Typing, data entry (finger dexterity) and ability to hold hands steady on keyboard when typing. Sit at extended period of time of up to 8 hours with erect posture, reading forms/computer screens. Ability to clearly and concisely express and exchange ideas via the spoken word, conveying detailed information to others accurately and on occasion, quickly for  up to 8 hours.

Talking:  Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly for up to 8 hours.

Hearing:  Perceiving the nature of sounds with no less than a 40 db loss @ 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz with or without correction.  Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound for up to 8 hours.                                                                                               

Sedentary Work:  Exerting up to 10 to 15 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects for up to 8 hours.           

Visual Acuity:  To inspect and analyze figures, accounting items, written materials, newsprint, computer terminal characters, transcription, and other similar objects at distances generally close to the eyes.  This is a minimum standard based on the criteria of accuracy and neatness of work for up to 8 hours.

The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions:  Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes for up to 8 hours. 

Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, company paid disability, 401(k) and a generous amount of paid time off.