Medical Transport Communications Specialist I - Transfer Center - Part-time (0.75 FTE) days

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Day - 12 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview
The Medical Transport Communications Specialist (CS) I has a mastery of comprehensive and effective communication skills and consistently utilizes CI Care principles in the Transfer Center at Stanford Healthcare. Performance of duties including operation and education on multi-line telephones, radio console, weather products including radar and satellite systems, multiple computer database systems, mapping systems, and related systems and equipment in support of air medical transport services for patients who need admission or transfer from referring hospitals to Stanford Healthcare and other health care institutions. Additionally, the CS II participates in training and mentoring new staff in the Transfer Center, is involved in committee work or is an active member of a unit based task force, acts as a resource for clarification and development of operational procedures and protocols in conjunction with the management team.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Provides a professional, efficient response to incoming EMTALA (Emergency Medical Transportation and Labor Act) requests, Non-EMTALA requests and consult services for patients needing services at SHC. Partners with nurses and physicians to distinguish both the urgency and escalation of requests, following Destination Service Line and Transfer Center guidelines to determine priority and reprioritization of patients.
• Conducts initial telephone intake of information to generate the Medical Record and/or Pre-admission related to requests for transfer of patients from outlying healthcare facilities to Stanford Healthcare and identifies appropriate receiving services needed based on diagnosis, as well as partnering with nurses and physicians to appropriately identify the receiving service.
• Develops and promotes positive effective customer service relations with all callers from outside facilities, family members, peers, other air medical transport providers, as well as inter-departmental calls following the principles of CI CARE and HIPAA compliance.
• Activates flight and ground transport teams using multiple communication systems and safety protocols, initiates appropriate actions based on the situation and SHC policy. Ensures accurate and timely dispatch of transport requests. Maintains communication with the transport teams always, discerning and relaying pertinent information about the transport to the flight crew.
• Maintains an accurate database of referral hospital locations. Reads and interprets county, state and specialized maps for determining locations of accident scenes or referral sources as well as access to these areas.
• Keeps an open line of communication with appropriate agencies to ensure proper coordination of transport services in emergency and trauma-related transport activities. Serves as primary communication link and liaison between Life Flight crews and medical teams, referring and receiving facilities/agencies, pilots and the physicians throughout the transport.
• Validates accuracy of information of ongoing events and communicates pertinent details to team members such as patient transfer progress, team updates, and destination information with ETA as needed.
• Provides a professional, efficient response to incoming EMTALA (Emergency Medical Transportation and Labor Act) requests, Non-EMTALA requests and consult services for patients needing services at SHC. Partners with nurses and physicians to distinguish both the urgency and escalation of requests, following Destination Service Line and Transfer Center guidelines to determine priority and reprioritization of patients.
• Conducts initial telephone intake of information to generate the Medical Record and/or Pre-admission related to requests for transfer of patients from outlying healthcare facilities to Stanford Healthcare and identifies appropriate receiving services needed based on diagnosis, as well as partnering with nurses and physicians to appropriately identify the receiving service.
• Develops and promotes positive effective customer service relations with all callers from outside facilities, family members, peers, other air medical transport providers, as well as inter-departmental calls following the principles of CI CARE and HIPAA compliance.
• Activates flight and ground transport teams using multiple communication systems and safety protocols, initiates appropriate actions based on the situation and SHC policy. Ensures accurate an