Health Information Specialist

**This is a hybrid opportunity. The ideal candidate must be commutable to our Center City, MN location.**

This position will, based on workload, maintain a variety of roles within the Health Information Department for all sites/locations. Responsibilities may include: monitoring paper charts and making sure purge process and MPI is accurate, providing responses to requests in a timely and efficient manner, ensuring accuracy of request to amends, providing customers with the highest quality product and customer service, ensuring the patient and their customers receive health information in a timely manner, assisting in monitoring the integrity of the medical record through continuous audit, reporting, and analysis of trends that can be reported for training and performance review functions, and supporting the Health Information Department as needed.

• Monitor the Master Patient Index (MPI) and purge process to ensure patient information is accurate and accessed from the same location within the electronic health record, as appropriate. 

• Release patient records to third parties according to state and federal regulations as well as organizational policy, as appropriate.

• Perform health record audits according to current audit procedures, as appropriate.

• Provide a variety of other support functions within the Health Information Department as needed and assigned by the Manager of Health Information.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be able to multi-task effectively
• 1-2 years health information office experience
• Proven customer service experience and/or training

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with release of patient record information
• Experience with Windows, Excel
• Associate’s Degree or equivalent experience

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is the largest nonprofit addiction recovery organization in the United States. It is also one of the most mission-driven places you will find. The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation team is passionate about providing hope and ultimately healing. As a living, growing and evolving institution, the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is – at our core- a people-powered organization.  Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is comprised of 1600+ employees, seventeen treatment sites and produces $190 million dollars in annual revenue.  This exemplary organization serves nearly 25,000 people annually and is committed to provide hope and healing for those experiencing addiction to alcohol and other drugs.

What makes this organization unique is its total ecosystem approach to prevention, education, research, advocacy and treatment.  All of the parts of the organization work together to inform, develop and deliver evidence- based practices that help people reclaim their futures and restore their hope.

Being “a best place to work” is a strategic goal of Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation and it’s a goal that every employee plays an active role in helping to achieve. Our culture is a reflection of how encouraged and energized we each feel about contributing our ideas and performing to our greatest ability. Join us and do meaningful work.

We deeply value our employees.  Working at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation includes a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Competitive Health, Dental and Vision Plans
• Retirement savings plan with employer match
• Paid time-off
• Tuition reimbursement

The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our colleagues is critical to our success as a force of healing and hope for individuals, families and communities affected by addiction to alcohol and other drugs; and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.