Registrar

Overview

To be part of our organization, every employee should understand and share in the YNHHS Vision, support our Mission, and live our Values. These values - integrity, patient-centered, respect, accountability, and compassion - must guide what we do, as individuals and professionals, every day.

At Bridgeport Hospital, we are committed to providing quality medical care and treatment that is coordinated and centered on the patient's specific needs. We strive to achieve benchmarks as a Patient Centered Medical Home and provide health care in a setting where patients are at the center of their care team. All employees of Bridgeport Hospital are part of the patients care team and contribute to the team approach of promoting access, continuous, comprehensive care and work to provide quality improvement in the care provided to their patients.

Responsibilities

• Coordinates the collection, documentation and reporting of information necessary to ensure the preparation of official birth certificates by local governmental Departments of Vital Statistics, and the reporting of vital statistics information to the CT Sate Department of Health Services.
• Prepares, distributes and collects all birth and/or paternity related documents from Maternity Services on a daily basis and ensures completeness.
• Captures and reports information necessary to ensure compliance with guidelines and regulations set forth by the Department of Health Service's Immunization section, and Office of Legitimations.
• Captures and reports information necessary to ensure compliance with guidelines and regulations set forth by the State Dept. of Children and Family Services, State Department of Income Maintenance, State Department of Social Services, Catholic Family Services, and all adoption agencies.
• Captures and reports information needed to meet the requirements of all internal Yale-New Haven Hospital Departments.
• Coordinates and activates MyChart/MyChart Proxy activations when rounding with patients; Activates access to MyChart as appropriate in accordance with health system policy and applicable state and federal privacy laws.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required; Associate degree preferred.
• Two (2) to three (3) years of experience in Health Information Management or related field; specific experience as a Birth Registrar in a hospital setting preferred.

Qualifications

• Able to coordinate with staff in the collection, analysis and reporting of statistical data.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Knowledge of federal, state and local government regulations pertaining to the reporting of hospital generated vital statistical information.
• Knowledge and proficient in the operation and use of computer systems including, but not limited to, Lotus, Word Processing, Excel, Database systems and State Dept. of Health Services software.

Skills

• None specified

Benefits

• None specified

Pay

• Not specified

Schedule

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