Job Description

Job Description

Marketing Statement

Queens Hospital Center is making good on its promise to the people of southeastern and central Queens to maximize both patient convenience and positive clinical outcomes. Residents of Queens can count on the delivery of quality medical care right in their own borough. In 2002 the hospital opened a state-of-the-art, 261-bed facility that includes the Queens Cancer Center, the first comprehensive cancer treatment center in the borough.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high-quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Job Description

• Obtains patient escort assignments and schedules from a designated Dispatcher/Supervisor, Service

Department and reports to Nurse-in-Charge.

• Introduce yourself to the patient, explain the nature of the trip, and escort the patient to and from the Nursing

Service to a designated area until someone else assumes responsibility for the patient or given another

assignment by the Nursing Supervisor and reports back to the Dispatcher/Supervisor, Service Department.

• Transports patients by wheelchair, stretcher, bed, or stretcher-bed, and escorts ambulatory patients, including

those with intravenous apparatus to and from various nursing units, x-rays, scheduled therapies, various clinics,

other diagnostic and therapeutic units, transfers, discharges, religious and recreation centers within the

healthcare setting, accompany children to school within.

• Maintains control of patients’ charts and releases the same only to authorized personnel.
• Maintains records of patient transport activities including the time a patient is picked up, time of the patient’s

arrival at a specified area and time of the patient’s return to the Nursing Service.

• Places patients in and out of wheelchairs, stretchers, beds, and morgue trays and obtains assistance, if necessary.

Positions patients on tables in such areas as x-ray, P.T., etc., and uses Hoyer lifters and other patient lifting

devices.

• Escorts newly admitted patients to designated areas in the health care setting complex and assists them in

storing their luggage, packages, clothing, and other items.

• Transports bodies and/or assists Mortuary Caretaker in transporting same to the mortuary and places in

refrigerator and, when necessary, searches D.O.A.’s, completes the required D.O.A.’s reports, transports

fetus, amputated parts, or another specimen to the morgue; delivers specimens, charts, x-rays, etc. to and from

specified area (such as O.R., wards, laboratories, etc.).

• Responsible for the ready availability, upkeep, and cleanliness of wheelchairs, stretchers, stretcher beds and

morgue trays, sterilization of incoming patients’ clothing and other items, when required.

• Performs such other duties as are necessary, when assigned (e.g., collect and deliver regular and

emergency requisitions for x-rays, electrocardiographs, basal metabolism, physiotherapy, and other diagnostic

tests and treatments assist with transporting various equipment and supplies, and another messenger

assignment).

Minimum Qualifications

• Elementary school graduation or equivalent ability to effectively communicate with patients; Ability to keep

simple clinical records.

Department Preferences

How To Apply

If you wish to apply for this position, please apply online at employment.nychhc.org.

NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week

Retirement Savings and Pension Plans

Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees

Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts

College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities

Multiple employee discount programs

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