Lead Tumor Registrar

4 weeks ago


Washington, Washington, D.C., United States MedStar Health Full time
Job Summary:

MedStar Health is seeking a highly skilled Lead Tumor Registrar to provide remote support to the Medical Records department at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.

This position serves as the lead in overseeing the principal accountabilities and essential functions designated to the Tumor Registrar position.

The successful candidate will oversee and abstract, code, and enter into a computerized database diagnostic, demographic, treatment, and follow-up information on all patients with diagnoses of malignancies admitted to Georgetown University Hospital and/or the Lombardi Cancer Center.

These functions will be performed in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations and Georgetown University Hospital's philosophy, policies, procedures, and standards.


Key Responsibilities:
  • Acts as team lead to the Tumor Registrar group to provide excellent and seamless service to client departments.
  • Works closely with the Manager to ensure departments experience uninterrupted services from excellence-driven teams.
  • Assists in supervision of the Tumor Registrar group and related processes, systems, reports, and operations.
  • Serves as a mentor to develop applicable organizational competencies and behaviors aligned with GUH values.
  • Abstracts data from medical records efficiently to meet productivity standards.
  • Applies knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and disease processes, and established guidelines to accurately abstract cancer cases.
  • Performs procedures for identifying all cases of malignant disease from departments of the hospital, Lombardi Cancer Center, and the outpatient areas to maintain suspense files.
  • Maintains knowledge of cancer treatment, data acquisition, and related skills through continuing education and research.
  • Answers requests for data from the Tumor Registry database.
  • Organizes and manages case finding and follow-up materials appropriately.
  • Performs data quality reviews for abstracting and staging.
  • Performs Rapid Quality Reporting System (RQRS) data management.
  • Coordinates and performs case finding audit reviews.
  • Performs Death Match management.
  • Provides backup for system upgrade testing.
  • Works in conjunction with the Manager on Report Requests.

Requirements:
  • Associate degree in a health-related field, required.
  • BS degree preferred.
  • A minimum of two years of directly relatable work experience in tumor registration, required.
  • CTR - Certified Tumor Registrar or ODS - Oncology Data Specialist certification, required.

Compensation:
The hiring range for this position is $30.67 - $51.64.

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