Highlights
The Coordinator of Staffing and Bed Management is responsible for coordinating staffing resources to ensure adequate and appropriate staffing coverage across designated departments and for managing patient placement activities to maximize inpatient bed utilization, facilitate timely admissions, transfers, and discharges, and promote efficient patient throughput while maintaining safe, high-quality patient care. Bed Management: Coordinates bed assignments based on patient acuity, diagnosis, isolation requirements, physician requests, and unit capabilities.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Alexandria, LA |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1999 |
| Website | http://www.christushealth.org/ |
Description
Description
Summary:
The Coordinator of Staffing and Bed Management is responsible for coordinating staffing resources to ensure adequate and appropriate staffing coverage across designated departments and for managing patient placement activities to maximize inpatient bed utilization, facilitate timely admissions, transfers, and discharges, and promote efficient patient throughput while maintaining safe, high-quality patient care.
Responsibilities:
Staffing Coordination:
- Coordinates daily staffing assignments based on census, patient acuity, staffing matrices, and operational needs.
- Assigns float pool, PRN, agency, and other available resources to departments as needed.
- Monitors staffing shortages, vacancies, call-ins, and schedule gaps and communicates concerns to leadership.
- Supports staffing adjustments for patient admissions, discharges, transfers, and fluctuations in census.
- Assists in implementing staffing contingency plans during periods of high demand.
Bed Management:
- Coordinates bed assignments based on patient acuity, diagnosis, isolation requirements, physician requests, and unit capabilities.
- Facilitates timely admissions, transfers, and discharges to optimize bed utilization.
- Monitors bed capacity and occupancy levels across the facility.
- Prioritizes patient placement to support patient care needs and operational efficiency.
- Collaborates with clinical leaders to address patient flow barriers.
- Maintains accurate bed status information within the electronic health record and bed management systems.
- Collaborates with Environmental Services to ensure timely bed turnover.
Requirements:
A. Education/Skills
- High School Diploma or GED required
B. Experience
- Minimum of three years of healthcare experience required.
- Minimum of two years hospital staffing, nursing administration or workforce coordination experience preferred.
C. Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications
- Current Louisiana LPN license
- BLS
Work Schedule:
MULTIPLE SHIFTS AVAILABLE
Work Type:
Full Time
About Company
In 1999, two historic Catholic charities became one, forming CHRISTUS Health and creating a unique purpose in the modern health care market - to take better care of people.
To extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, the mission that the Sisters of Charity Health Care system and Incarnate Word Health system shared for more than a century, is now also the mission of CHRISTUS Health.
Ranked among the top 10 Catholic health systems in the United States by size, the CHRISTUS Health system includes more than 40 hospitals and facilities in seven U.S. states, Chile and six states in Mexico, with assets of more than $4.6 billion.
Whether seeking care in Alexandria Louisiana, or Coahuila, Mexico, patients discover that the healing spirit is alive at CHRISTUS Health.