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Overview:

Sentara Health is hiring for a Medical Staff Specialist for Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center (SWRMC) in Williamsburg, VA!

Status: Full-Time, permanent position (40 hours)

Standard working hours: 8 hour dayshift

Location: This is a hybrid position. Will report 3 days a week at Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center (SWRMC) in Williamsburg, VA and 2 days from home. Subject to change depending on hospital needs.  

Job overview:

•  Supports the Medical Staff function with a variety of duties to include the appointment and reappointment processes, as well as with committee and department support.

Job responsibilities:

• Reviews applications for initial appointment, modifications of privileges, and reappointment; performs final Quality Control check and identifies issues that require follow up; ensures that follow up is accomplished by medical staff leadership or by colleagues. Organizes and presents applications for initial appointment and reappointment to Credentials Committee and department chairs. Assigns files to relevant leaders for review. Ensures that files are processed timely and accurately through the medical staff process up to the Governing Body review. Notifies the applicant(s) and all relevant parties of the disposition of the credentialing action.

• Ensures information related to clinicians in the clinician database is current and accurate. Identifies needs related to credentialing and medical staff governance that require collaboration with other facilities and initiates collaboration with colleagues. Provides required support for all meetings related to credentialing, privileging, and medical staff governance to include meeting minutes and carrying out follow up actions or ensuring that others carry out follow up actions in a timely and accurate manner. Ensures medical staff compliance with regulatory requirements through collaboration and communication with medical staff leaders, colleagues, and senior management. Ensures that all expirables (board certification, license, Drug Enforcement Administration, etc.) are current for all practicing practitioners. Provides support and partnership for medical staff communications. Ensures thorough collaboration and partnership with senior management medical staff compliance with its governing documents.

Education:

• HS - High School Grad or Equivalent REQUIRED

Certification/Licensure:

• None required

Experience:

• Administrative - 3 years REQUIRED

Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system, celebrates more than 130 years in pursuit of its mission - "we improve health every day." Sentara is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, and among the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the country, with 30,000 employees, 12 hospitals in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina, and the Sentara Health Plans division which serves more than 1 million members in Virginia and Florida. Sentara is recognized nationally for clinical quality and safety, and is strategically focused on innovation and creating an extraordinary health care experience for our patients and members. Sentara was named to IBM Watson Health's "Top 15 Health Systems" (2021, 2018), and was recognized by Forbes as a "Best Employer for New Grads" (2022), "Best Employer for Veterans" (2022, 2023), and "Best Employer for Women" (2020).

Our success is supported by a family-friendly culture that encourages community involvement and creates unlimited opportunities for development and growth. 

Be a part of an excellent healthcare organization that cares about our People, Quality, Patient Safety, Service, and Integrity. Join a team that has a mission to improve health every day and a vision to be the healthcare choice of the communities that we serve!

To apply, please go to www.sentaracareers.com and use the following as your Keyword Search: JR-101502

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Medical Staff Specialist, Williamsburg, Virginia, VA, Hybrid, Administrative, Medical Staff, Records, Credentials, Credentialing

Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center, a Certified Primary Stroke Center, has 145 licensed beds and features the latest healthcare technologies, serving the region with the life-saving capabilities of an ultra-modern medical center.

The hospital offers a full range of medical care from emergency heart catheterization to all-inclusive obstetrics care where patients can stay in one room. The hospital also provides advanced imaging and “smart” operating rooms. Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center has also achieved Magnet® recognition, the nation's highest honor for excellence in nursing. We improve health every day, come be a part of the community.

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:

Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.