The patient ambassador promotes a positive patient experience by facilitating an interdisciplinary approach to providing high-quality and coordinated care in the Emergency Department. Rounds on patients and the Emergency Department environment to ensure a positive patient experience and to expedite hospital throughput by anticipating and preventing bottlenecks in patient flow. Responsible for providing patients with consistent information and status updates by acting as a liaison between the patient, hospital staff and faculty. Identifies and provides resolution to patient requests through collaboration with physician, nursing and ancillary departments. Serves as the point of contact to addresses patient concerns and employs de-escalation techniques and service recovery. Provides management direction and responsible for training Emergency Department volunteers. Tracks and maintains detailed reports about patient complaints and requests; communicates areas of concern to hospital and COM leadership for service and quality improvement. Proposes strategic solutions to enhance coordinated care to the ED Service Ambassador program administrative and physician champions.
Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:
Minimum Pay Rate - Hourly: $18.82
Midpoint Pay Rate - Hourly: $22.84
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UF Health Shands Hospital is committed to diversity as a competitive advantage in attracting top talent from across the nation and around the world. We believe in sharing knowledge, learning from one another, valuing different opinions, and celebrating the things that make each one of us unique in our own right. UF Health Shands Hospital is an equal opportunity employer and drug-free workplace. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
Manager Guest Services I Patient Experience
Gainesville, FL
Shift/Days: 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday
Posted FTE: 1.00 = 40 Hours
Patient Ambassador I Patient Experience
Gainesville, FL
Shift/Days: 7 a.m. - 7:30 p.m., Variable
Posted FTE: 0.90 = 36 Hours
Manager Patient Experience I Patient Experience
Gainesville, FL
Shift/Days: 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday
Posted FTE: 1.00 = 40 Hours
As you would expect from an organization this size, our core benefits include medical insurance and prescription drug plans, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, generous paid time off, 10 paid holidays per year and an employee assistance plan. Voluntary benefits include tuition reimbursement, dependent care and health care reimbursement accounts, dental insurance, vision plan and more. Retirement benefits include a 403(b) plan.
UF Health Shands is recognized as Florida’s premier hospital system. We're an integral part of the University of Florida, which ranks as the nation’s Number 1 public university by the Wall Street Journal.
Our steadfast commitment to delivering top-tier clinical care leads to outstanding outcomes, consistently garnering our hospital national acclaim, including:
It's our privilege to provide exceptional, patient-centered health care that bolsters our communities and strengthens our role as the perennial health care leader in Florida.
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For a full list of UF Health career opportunities statewide, go to our main career site.
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