The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is a non-profit Tribal health organization designed to meet the unique health needs of Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Alaska. In partnership with the more than 171,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people that we serve and the Tribal health organizations of the Alaska Tribal Health System, ANTHC provides world-class health services, which include comprehensive medical services at the Alaska Native Medical Center, wellness programs, disease research and prevention, rural provider training and rural water and sanitation systems construction.

ANTHC is the largest, most comprehensive Tribal health organization in the United States, and Alaska’s second-largest health employer with more than 3,100 employees offering an array of health services to people around the nation’s largest state.

Our vision: Alaska Native people are the healthiest people in the world.

Benefits include:

• Generous Paid Time Off and holiday schedule with 4 weeks paid vacation per year to start and 12 paid holidays.

• More than 19 Federal healthcare plans with plans for employee, employee plus one, and employee plus family available. ANTHC covers 80% of all health insurance premiums and 100% of Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Dental, Vision, Basic Life, and AD&D.

• 401(a) retirement plan; ANTHC will contribute 3% of your annual compensation to the plan account each year, with up to an additional 5% match with a 6-year vesting schedule.

• 403(b) retirement savings plan with pre-tax and Roth options. Flexible Spending Accounts for Health Care and Dependent care are also available.

• Onsite Child Care is available in a brand new education facility.

• Onsite free gym access. Additional gym, rock climbing wall and salt-water pool available at the Alaska Pacific University for a small fee per semester. Steep discounts on outdoor equipment rentals for your Alaskan adventures!

• Tuition reductions for employees and their eligible dependents at the Alaska Pacific University.

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium has a hiring preference for qualified Alaska Native and American Indian applicants pursuant to P.L. 93-638 Indian Self Determination Act.

Summary:
Under general direction of management evaluates patient medical records while working with the different clinical departments located on the ANMC campus to find and determine discrepancies with existing housing reservations. Works directly with Patient Housing Management to ensure housing services are efficiently being utilized, with a goal of reducing the average length of stay in housing.

Responsibilities:

Compare length of stay through Maestro with EHR documented appointments. Review medical chart to determine medical necessity (diagnosis, have they had surgery, are the appointments clinic scheduled or self-scheduled).

Determine if the housing requests are made appropriately and coordinate/communicate with clinics and inpatient units to determine if travel can be made or if stays need to be extended/reduced.

Communicate with Patient Housing Managers and staff. Coordinate/communicate as a team member.

Critically important to communicate/negotiate with clinic staff to reschedule appointments to facilitate patient stays. For example, a patient stay is over the weekend and has a separate medical appointment on a Wednesday or MRI 3 days past imaging, try to move those appointments closer to what would be clinically acceptable. Certain clinics will have an easier time than others, make it routine to ask even if you might think it not possible or feasible.

Provide concise reports daily to General Manager (GM) and Assistant General Manager (AGM) via Outlook. This will assist you in tracking your successes.

Updates are made between two excel files, one to track overall work and one to document LOS days saved.

Daily you will receive an updated LOS report to be processed. Cut and paste into your overall progress document and use this to audit/track reservations.

Perform other duties as assigned.

Other information:

KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS

MINIMUM EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

An Associate’s Degree in Hospitality, Business or related field. Progressively responsible work-related experience, education, or training may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for college education.

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION