Southeast Health·Dothan, Alabama
The coordinator is responsible for managing hospital bed capacity and patient flow, ensuring safe, efficient, and timely placement of patients into appropriate units. This involves coordinating transfers between hospitals and physicians and administering policies for expeditious patient admission and transfer.
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Job Description: SUMMARY
Responsible for managing hospital bed capacity and patient flow, ensuring safe, efficient and timely placement of patients into appropriate units. Coordinates between other hospitals and physicians to ensure proper placement of patient transferring into and out of SE Health. Administers the policies and operational procedures necessary for the coordination of expeditious, safe admission/transfer of patients.
Essential Functions
Identifies and effectively utilizes the appropriate resources to ensure bed assignments are appropriate for patient population and admit type status.
Assumes technical responsibility for hospital transfers, admissions, and accommodations to include entering and reviewing data and dashboards in EPIC system
Serves as a liaison between admitting, nursing staff, physicians, and transferring hospitals to ensure proper placement.
Maintain Compliance on Physician Link calls following EMTALA protocol.
Acts as a central liaison between ED staff, nursing, physicians, and environmental services to facilitate patient transfers and discharges
Participate/lead daily multi-disciplinary “Bed Control” meetings involving front line leadership and nursing administration
Streamlines patient throughput, reducing wait times in the emergency department and expediting transfers from other facilities
Documents patient movements in the electronic medical record, maintains required documentation and ensures adherence to hospital, regulatory and legal standards. Documents appropriate data in the bed management system to reflect system wide activity.
Communicates with unit managers, nursing leadership, administrator on call regarding high census, capacity constraints and complex placement issues
Monitors hospital-wide census and implements surge capacity protocols to manage periods of high acuity or volume.
Analyzes historical admission data and upcoming surgical schedules to anticipate bed shortages and proactively allocate resources.
Serves as an arbiter in bed-related disputes between departments, prioritizing patient safety and clinical necessity over "first-come, first-served" placement.
Regularly reviews Bed board and Capacity Management Dashboard to identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks.
Collaborates with clinical leadership to create or update standardized placement criteria for specialty units (CCU, PCU, Telemetry, Ortho) to ensure level-of-care accuracy.
Performs other duties as requested by primary manager that do not compromise moral code of conduct or protocols set in place for patient or employee safety
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Southeast health is committed to provide equal employment opportunity (Eeo) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/Or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, southeast health will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Candidates must be graduates of an accredited school of nursing and hold a current LPN license in Alabama, requiring a minimum of one year of LPN experience. Essential abilities include effective cross-disciplinary communication and adherence to established organizational priorities and ground rules.
Market context
Nursing roles in Alabama typically stay active across hospitals, clinics, and other care settings, especially when units need licensed RNs who can start quickly. These positions can be competitive because employers often look for current Alabama or multistate RN licensure, BLS, and education that meets the unit’s needs, with BSN or specialty certifications sometimes preferred. Review the unit-specific certification timeline and compare the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here with the original posting to save research time before applying.
