The Medical Staff Office supports the credentialing, privileging, and ongoing compliance of the hospital’s medical staff. The department collaborates with providers, leadership, and regulatory bodies to ensure adherence to accreditation standards, bylaws, andpolicies supportingsafe, high-quality patient care and effective medical staff governance.
TheAdministrativeAssistantis responsible forgathering current licensing, insurance and certificate information needed forMedical Staff andAllied Health Professional Staff tomaintaincredentials at Baptist HealthLexington. Responsible for maintenance ofall medical staff/allied health files and data entry into systems thatutilizesmedical staff information. Responsiblefor generating badges for physicians and allied health.Assistswith administrative and clerical functions of theMedical Staff Office. Provides administrativeassistanceto the Chief Medical Officer and Director ofDepartmentAssigned special projects and specifically delegated activities.
Administrative Assistant
Full-time
Prepares annual medical staff calendar and call schedule. Maintains monthly medical staff calendars andemergency room service call rotations. Updates andmaintainsas necessary throughout the month.
Handles all correspondence assigned according to written or verbal instructions. Provides workprocessing, proofing, copying, assembling, filing, and mailing asrequired
Archives all office documents data ineasilyaccessible format.
Answers all inquiries according to facility release of information policy.
Responsible for department and medical staff financial deposits
Sends medical staffinvoiceand tracks Medical Staff Dues.
Adds all new appointments, reinstatements, after Board approval for PHYSICIAN/AHP intoappropriatesystemsmonthly.
Assists with Daisy Awards by copying apps and blinding for the committee meetings
Department of Pediatrics and Radiation Safety Committee
Maintains CME submission paperwork and forwards to CME Coordinator for Children’s Services,Orthopedic and OB/GYN Grand Rounds
Maintains Calendar/Scheduling for VP and organize meetings asnecessarysubmitsConference Preapproval forms and completes Expense Report for reimbursement to the FinanceDepartment/Administration as needed.
Order supplies/materials andmaintainsinventory and purchase order/invoice reconciliation.
Requirements:
High School/GED
Three years of related experience
Benefits:
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
