Sr Data Coordinator

City/State: Saint Louis, Missouri

Categories: Support Services

Job Status: Full-Time

Req ID : 97620

Pay Range: $52,083.20 - $84,822.40 / year (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)

Additional Information About the Role

Detail-oriented registered nurse responsible for reviewing electronic medical records to extract, validate, and submit clinical data to national vascular and cardiology outcome registries. This role ensures accuracy and completeness of data while supporting quality improvement initiatives and performance metric monitoring within the cardiovascular program.

• Prior experience with VQI or other national cardiovascular registries.

• Previous experience in data abstraction, quality programs, or clinical outcomes reporting.

• Background in cardiovascular, vascular, or operating room nursing.

Overview

Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri and is ranked as one of the nation's top hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. Barnes-Jewish Hospital's staff is composed of full-time academic faculty and community physicians of Washington University School of Medicine, supported by a house staff of residents, interns, fellows and other medical professionals. Recognizing its excellence in nursing care, Barnes-Jewish Hospital was the first adult hospital in Missouri to be certified as a Magnet Hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

The Heart and Vascular Administration department supports the structure for the Heart and Vascular Program and drives the strategic goals and priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

The Senior Data Coordinator is responsible for assisting the Supervisor with the oversight of the abstraction processes and staff. This position maintains working knowledge of regulatory abstraction guidelines, internal policies, procedures and services (both departmental and operational.) This position also assists with monitoring productivity and quality standards of designated staff to meet regulatory timelines.

Responsibilities

• Supports the supervisor, management team and hospital performance improvement staff with various projects and assignments to assist in meeting BJC goals.

• Trains new abstraction staff on medical record review and data abstraction; provides ongoing education and training to current abstraction staff on new or revised abstraction guidelines; responsible for monitoring abstraction processes and escalates any concerns to management team.

• Serves as the subject matter expert for abstraction processes, including but not limited to guidelines, timelines, inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria, applicable population, sampling criteria, validation, and submission timelines; stays current on abstraction guidelines published by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, The Joint Commission, and American Heart Association Get with the Guidelines for Stroke; audits coworkers' abstraction, identifies continuous learning needs, and assists management in implementation of action plans to address ongoing education and learning needs regarding abstraction guidelines.

• Reviews medical records and various databases to collect required data for assessing specific aspects of care using standardizing guidelines, definitions, and tools.

• Performs ongoing inter-rater reliability audits to ensure reliability of data, quality and validation checks on automated portion of data collection and participates in the planning and execution of strategies to evaluate alternative, computer-based performance assessments.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Experience

• 2-5 years

Preferred Requirements

Experience

• 5-10 years

Benefits and Legal Statement

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At BJC we're committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date

• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC

• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution

• 401(k) plan with BJC match

• Tuition Assistance available on first day

• BJC Institute for Learning and Development

• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time

• Adoption assistance

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*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer