Medical Staff Services Coordinator

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MO-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis

Worker Type:
Regular

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

The Medical Staff Services Coordinator position requires a highly detailed and organized individual to support the medical staff organization by coordinating credentialing and recredentialing. Preferred Skills Include: Multi-tasking, Microsoft software system proficiency, minute taking, credentialing experience, attention to detail and managing multiple deadlines. This position will be a Hybrid role following the initial onsite training period. Schedule - M-F Business Hours with start times between 7-8am.

- Department: Medical Staff Office
- Schedule: Full-time, Day Shift, 40-hours a week

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Job Summary:
Supports the medical staff organization by coordinating credentialing and recredentialing. Coordinates and supports medical staff meetings.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Assists medical staff with development of bylaws and related procedures. Develops credentialing criteria, privilege delineations, and documents necessary to support an effective credentialing process.
- Develops and maintains yearly calendar of medical staff meetings and special events. Coordinates agenda, packets, minutes, and follow-up for meetings.
- Complies with the Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requirements for medical staff and participates in the continual survey readiness process and regulatory review of credential files.
- Orients medical staff leadership to key policies related to their roles. Orients new medical staff members to the medical staff bylaws, key policies, medical staff structure and performance improvement process.
- Administers all credentialing, reappointment, and privileging processes in accordance with medical staff bylaws, rules and regulations, Joint Commission standards, and state and federal law.
- Prepares credentialing reports and action items for the board.
- Develops, distributes, and archives the emergency on-call schedule as required by state and federal law.
- Maintains the credentialing and privileging software to ensure that information is available for privilege verification as required.
- Assists with scheduling and tracking of physician training.
- May provide administrative support as needed.
- Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

- High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience

EXPERIENCE

- Three years’ experience in medical staff services or credentialing

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

- None

Department:
8411000100 Medical Staff Office

Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

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