Baptist Health is looking for a Clinical Documentation Specialist to join our team. This is a remote position that requires residence in either KY or IN
The Clinical Documentation Specialist is responsible for the evaluation of physician documentation utilizing their clinical expertise to ensure the patients’ severity of illness is accurately portrayed in the medical record for specificity of coding and increased coding accuracy. They provide guidance to the physicians, nursing and ancillary staff on clinical documentation best practices. They must be self-motivated and be adaptive to change.
· Register Nurse with active Kentucky license
· Bachelor’s degree preferred and 3 years acute health care nursing (including 1 year experience in clinical documentation), OR Associate’s degree in Nursing with 5 years acute health care nursing . (Register Nurse with active Kentucky license)
· ACDIS Credential (CCDS) or Certified Documentation Improvement Professions (CDIP) strongly encouraged
· Knowledge of medical record organization
· Knowledge of medical terminology
· Ability to complete assignments in a timely manner despite fluctuations in workflow
· Strong interpersonal, communication and listening skills is required
· Knowledge of e-mail, Word, Excel, data entry and data retrieval systems, Encoder and internet
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.
