You’ll need
Education
✓High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
Qualifications
✓Three (3) to six (6) months on-the-job training is required to attain proficiency of performance of assigned duties and responsibilities.
✓Must operate routine office machines, including but not limited to postage meter, typewriter, display terminal and terminal printing, adding machine and copy machine, fax machine, medifax machine and communications system.
✓Must type 30 words per minute accurately.
Experience in dealing with public is desired. preferred
Appalachian Regional Healthcare
Nonprofit · Lexington, KY · 14 hospitals · 2 states
416open roles
14office and clerical roles open in KY
65 miWest Liberty to Lexington
Full employer posting
- The Admissions Clerk is responsible for efficient and courteous registration, transfer, and discharge of patients. Responsibilities
- Serves as general receptionist for the hospital, greeting patients and visitors in person or by phone in a courteous manner.
- Provides general information concerning the hospital and/or patient's condition in accordance with hospital guidelines and secures signatures on documents if required.
- Operates communication system placing and answering telephone calls, paging or contacting staff, and keeping appropriate records and assists in locating patient's families.
- Determines patient's needs by admitting to hospital or referring to appropriate facility and escorts patient to proper area or arranges for transportation.
- Maintains a roster of inpatients by names, bed number, and religious preference, reporting daily on admissions and discharges.
- Maintains elective admission schedule and contacts patients when rooms are available.
- Prepares all necessary records relating to admission, payment, and discharge of patient.
- Pulls patient charts.
- Maintains appointment schedules.
- Handles money.
- Retains custody of hospital keys as required.
- May assist patients in and out of vehicles.
- Operates various office equipment.
- Performs cashier duties, e.g. receipts of payment and issuance of receipts.
- Performs other related duties as assigned. Qualifications Education
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent. Experience
- Experience in dealing with public is desired.
- Three (3) to six (6) months on-the-job training is required to attain proficiency of performance of assigned duties and responsibilities.
- , Knowledge & Abilities
- Must operate routine office machines, including but not limited to postage meter, typewriter, display terminal and terminal printing, adding machine and copy machine, fax machine, medifax machine and communications system.
- Must type 30 words per minute accurately.
About the role
Serves as general receptionist for the hospital, greeting patients and visitors in person or by phone in a courteous manner.