Community Health Coordinator

Location

Santa Cruz, CA | United States

Job description

Overview

Dominican Hospital (a member of Dignity Health) is a 222-bed facility that offers a wide range of services to residents of California’s Central Coast. With 24/7 emergency care comprehensive care in cardiac orthopedics oncology women’s and children’s services we continue to lead the region in medical innovation and excellence in healthcare. Comprehensive CareDominican offers emergency services and is a Certified Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center. Dominican’s services include the only comprehensive Cancer Center in Santa Cruz County a Total Joint Replacement program and advanced neurological and endoscopic services. Dominican regularly receives ‘A’ grades for hospital safety from Leapfrog Group and has received national recognition for superior patient safety cardiac care and stroke treatment from Healthgrades a leading provider of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.As Santa Cruz County’s heart attack (STEMI) receiving center Dominican Hospital provides cutting edge cardiac care. The hospital’s heart attack treatment times consistently beat the national average and the hospital offers two cardiac catheterization labs available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Groundbreaking cardiac procedures at Dominican include the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure which allows for heart valve replacement without opening a patient’s chest.Dominican Hospital has forged significant partnerships with area hospitals to bring exceptional care to Santa Cruz County. The hospital offers a level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) through a partnership with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. Neurosurgery at Dominican is also offered through a partnership with Stanford Health Care.

This position is responsible for providing administrative support for Dominican Hospital's Community Health Integration Services and services that are directed toward the provision of a broad range of health services for the uninsured, underinsured and vulnerable populations of Santa Cruz County. Said programs may include: The Mobile Wellness Clinic, Every Woman Counts/Early Breast Cancer Detection Program, Women Helping Women Program, the RotaCare clinic, and the hospital discharge follow-up calls. In addition, the employee will provide coverage for the Community Health Coordinator on the Wellness Unit , complete initial patient assessment, NP/PA support, and discharge of patients as needed. This position will also be responsible for supply inventory and stocking of supplies on the Wellness clinic, and will provide and maintain Point-of-Care testing and immunization logs.

Required:

• At least two years experience providing health education in a community or public health clinic under the supervision of medical staff
• Medical Assistant Certification
• Current BLS certification
• Current and valid CA Drivers License
• Knowledge of community-based health resources
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proven cultural competency in target client population

Preferred:

• Bachelors Degree
• Community Educator Certificate
• Bilingual English/Spanish

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