Trauma Registrar

Where You’ll Work

At CHI Health CUMC-Bergan Mercy, our focus is patient-centered care. Our level I trauma center and academic medical center campus is designed to heal the body, mind, and spirit of every person in a more comfortable, less stressful hospital environment. Our full range of medical services includes trauma services, heart and vascular care, emergency services, surgery, maternity, cancer care, and diagnostic imaging.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Trauma Registrar, you will provide direct support to Trauma Services and indirect support to patients across the age continuum.

Every day you will collaborate with prehospital EMS providers, referring facilities, the Emergency Department, and inpatient units to collect and abstract data for patients meeting trauma criteria, support planning and implementation of program goals, and work with registrar colleagues on accurate, complete data entry.

To be successful in this role, you will bring strong experience in medical data/trauma registry abstraction, deep attention to detail, and ability to manage large health datasets.

• Contributes to the efficiency of operations in trauma registry through collection of required elements, coding of clinical conditions, and external causes of injury.
• Reviews necessary data, provides special or ad hoc reporting to ensure capture of all injured patients meeting trauma registry criteria and those meeting criteria for specialty codes.
• Abstracts, assembles, enters, and codes clinical data into databases by using Association for the Advancement of Automotive Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and the standardized registry criteria as defined by the National Trauma Data Bank and State regulatory agencies.
• Retrieves missing data elements from necessary sources and ensures information entered into the trauma registry database is complete and accurate.
• Responsible for the timely preparation/submission of data to State and NTBD regulatory agencies.
• Resolves routine entry issues/problems and appropriately seeks assistance from Supervisor, Managers, Coordinators and/or other identified specialists.

Job Requirements

Required

• High School or GED and 1-3 years Experience in medical setting
• Experience in ICD-10 coding and data abstraction/entry 

Preferred

• Associate's Degree and Emergency Department, trauma, or surgical experience
• 1-3 years of trauma registry or AIS coding