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The Healthcare Registrar is responsible for the business aspect of the patient's visit to the Emergency Department as well as the patient-focused care delivery within the department. Key activities include:

• Greeting and directing patients, visitors, and staff.
• Answering telephones promptly and courteously, directing calls to appropriate personnel, and taking messages.
• Collecting and distributing patient referral information received from affiliated physicians.
• Escorting visitors and patients to appropriate areas and providing information to assist patients and visitors.
• Ensuring an environment that is sensitive to cultural diversity and promoting an inclusive atmosphere.
• Distributing departmental reading material, such as the Emergency Department brochure, Health Care Proxy, and Patient Bill of Rights.
• Registering patients by updating or entering patient demographic, financial information, and emergency contact data into the computer system.
• Verifying demographic information and insurance coverage by interviewing patients, family members, or friends.
• Generating patients' charts and attaching pertinent information, such as Emerg Card, Medicaid threshold, and EMS sheet.
• Reviewing discharged patient charts for diagnosis, physician signature, dictation code, menu, and appropriate forms for completion.
• Processing specimens for laboratory(ies) by ensuring that specimens are appropriately labeled, forms are completed, and identification processes have been followed.
• Filing charts and retrieving old records.
• Retrieving completed charts, addressograph plate, and all supporting documents from patient treatment areas.
• Entering data into required computerized systems.
• Maintaining patient recall files.
• Ensuring that all papers, forms, etc. are stamped appropriately.
• Logging patients on/in to the appropriate registration sheets/logs and reconciling log books.
• Obtaining signatures for consent.
• Making clinic appointments.

6-9 months of healthcare experience in order to become familiar with institutional policies and procedures is preferred.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve.