McLaren Health Care is a fully integrated health network committed to quality, evidence-based patient care with locations in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. The McLaren system includes 14 hospitals in Michigan and Ohio, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S.

• Ensures efficient administration of nursing services and quality of care.
• Demonstrates a commitment to continued self-growth and maintenance of competency.
• Communicates and coordinates with the managers, coordinators, contact nurses to ensure that all shifts have standardized admission, discharge, and transfer procedures.
• Communicates with ER and PACU frequently to prevent a back up of admissions and to put into place process that might stop a backlog.
• Provides input into personnel issues including hiring, disciplining, appraising, and terminating employees.
• Coordinates and facilitates morning report to Patient Care Services Manager of Nursing Support or Utilization Review/Patient Placement Coordinator.
• Seeks to improve quality of service by continuously developing individual competencies within scope of practice.
• Conducts rounds on patients and families waiting for beds in ER and PACU and communicates bed placement plan.
• Serves as administrative representative in the absence of administration.
• Acts as a resource person and provides support and direction to patient care units. Participates in delivery of patient care.
• Identifies and evaluates bed availability in patient care departments by super census review and continuous rounding.
• Initiates continuous communication with Scheduling Office staff.
• Initiates new concepts, approaches, and procedures in the placement of patients to facilitate their admission process.
• Supports the mission and vision of McLaren Port Huron through behaviors that reflect and integrate our values, as evidenced by observation, peer and customer feedback.
• Participates in the evaluation of the metrics and communicates the information to the appropriate people.
• Coordinates weekend staffing for units.
• Coordinates, with other health team members, patient placement and delivery of patient care with final decision-making responsibility.

• Performs other related duties as required and directed.

Per Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations, all McLaren employees must be vaccinated for COVID-19 by January 4, 2022. The regulation permits exemptions for employees with qualified medical disabilities or religious beliefs.

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.