Medical Records Coordinator-Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health-Staten Island

Strength Through Diversity

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Roles & Responsibilities: 

The Medical Records Coordinator performs a variety of clerical duties involved in maintaining patient medical records include filing, retrieving and distributing medical records, loose notes and reports and maintaining associated logs and records in accordance with established priorities and procedures.

• Coordinates and participates in scanning of medical records for off-site practices.
• Coordinates and participates in purge and inventory required for storage of charts in off-site location.
• Compiles and maintains medical records of patients to document condition and treatment and to provide data for research studies.
• Compiles medical care and census data for statistical reports on diseases treated, surgery performed, and use of hospital beds.
• Ensures all medical files are complete and includes such documents as dictations, laboratory and pathology reports, operative reports and notes, discharge summaries, copies of insurance cards, demographic information and insurance authorizations.
• Receives all requests for medical records; sorts requests according to predetermined priorities. Provides routine information of a general nature such as admission or discharge dates and medical record locations to authorized requestors.
• Prepares and ensures all charts are pulled in advance of request date and prepared for provider use; continually check to ensure add-on information and/or documents are captured.
• Receives all request for medical records. Assists in the retrieval and copying of medical information from patient medical records to answer authorized requests in support of patient care activities, patient account settlements and third party sponsorship; documents patient records appropriately.
• Ensures charts are returned and filed at the end of each day.
• Ensures coverage is provided for the Medical Records area at all times.
• Responsible for creation and edits of all office forms.
• Performs other related duties.

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 6 months clerical and/or general office experience; knowledge of medical terminology preferred.

 

 

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.  We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solution