Rehab Aide
 Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center | |
 United States, Ohio, Columbus | |
| 281 West Lane Avenue (Show on map) | |
 Apr 07, 2025 | |
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Duties and Responsibilities
70% of time Patient Care Responsibilities * Assist rehab staff in moving, transferring, and transporting patients as needed. * Assist rehab staff with instrumental assessment setup, patient interactions, and instrumental assessment take down. * Receive requests (written, phone or in person) from therapists and/or providers to provide necessary bracing and orthotics. * Coordinate and organizes inventory of DME and bracing supplies. * Monitors and maintains advanced technologies and equipment, troubleshoots operational issues, and prepares equipment/technology/controllers for therapist use with patients. * Assist therapists with and provide patients devices that assist with mobility modifications * Organizes inventory of walkers, canes, etc., cleans and repairs as necessary. * Provide orthopedic equipment in patients rooms and its return upon patients discharge. * Assists therapists with the application or removal of casts or splints, inventories, and orders all supplies. * Maintains competency and compliance with High-Level Disinfection Process. * Monitors and maintains endoscopes. 20% of the time - Overall equipment maintenance * Maintain inventory and assure preventive maintenance of all equipment including advanced technologies and specialty program equipment. * Liaison between purchasing and Rehabilitation Department to assure proper equipment is ordered and maintained. * Work with public relations department to assure all outdated excessive equipment is donated to a designated charity, as appropriate. * Consultant to therapists to set-up equipment for casting and splinting, assuring that therapists have items needed for procedure. * Work as a resource to medical residents, therapists, nurses, and PCA staff. * Work with management team to assure costs for orthopedic procedures are being captured and appropriately billed. * Contact outside and special orthopedic suppliers to arrange purchase and delivery of special supplies and equipment. * Maintain equipment in good working order, arrange for special medical equipment. * As requested, collects information for budgeting process, assists with preparing, monitoring, and identifying budget variances. * As requested, provides input on budgets, programs and use of personnel, supplies, and facilities. 10% of the time Business and Financial Management * On an ongoing basis disseminates materials (e.g. educational items, patient care guides, schedules, filing) * As directed types, copies and files documents * According to schedule and as requested, facilitates requisitions for equipment and services. * Maintains tracking mechanism of inventory supply costs, purchases, and charges. * Manage department budget related to supplies, bracing and orthotics, as cost center contact. * Working as liaison within the department to decrease the overall cost of orthopedic equipment. Streamlines product availability. * Works with Team Manager to assure accurate inventory list and accurate depreciation costs are allocated to the appropriate cost center. * Develop system to closely monitor all supplies that are ordered, and that the revenue is captured for all services. MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS | |