Registered Nurse -Bed Management - 24 hours - Days

Bed Management Nurse - Henry Ford Health
Job Title
Bed Management Nurse
About the Department
Join the System Capacity Command Center (SC3) at Henry Ford Health, located at One Ford Place in Detroit's vibrant New Center. Our team is dedicated to optimizing patient flow across acute adult and pediatric facilities, ensuring quality care and service excellence. Working in a dynamic, walkable area with easy access to public transit and local amenities, you'll be part of a collaborative environment focused on patient- and family-centered care. SC3 is at the forefront of clinical and operational innovation, driving efficiency and improving outcomes for our patients and communities.
Role Overview
As a Bed Management Nurse, you'll coordinate and optimize patient flow across our facilities, ensuring seamless care progression and patient placement. You'll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to resolve clinical and operational issues, acting as a liaison to meet patient flow objectives. Your work directly supports medical and nursing staff, enhancing throughput and delivering exceptional care.
Why Henry Ford Health
At Henry Ford Health, we are relentless advocates for exceptional care for our patients, communities, and each other. We come to do meaningful work and grow our careers, and we stay for the connection, support, and shared pride in making the impossible, possible.
What You Will Do
Coordinate patient flow across acute adult and pediatric facilities to optimize throughput.
Facilitate patient placement, transfers, and care progression in partnership with medical and nursing staff.
Act as a liaison between multidisciplinary teams to resolve clinical and operational issues.
Utilize systems to support patient flow, admission, transfer, and discharge processes.
Prioritize and manage highly sensitive and confidential matters with discretion and independent judgment.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Bachelor’s degree in nursing.
Three (3) years of clinical experience, or direct capacity management experience (systems that support patient flow, transfer, clinical expediting, and admission processes)
Experience facilitating patient placement, transfer, or clinical expediting preferred. • Experience with systems that support patient flow, admission, transfer, care progression and discharge processes preferred
Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and produce detailed and accurate work.
Excellent clinical knowledge and assessment skills to evaluate and prioritize patient placement.
Ability to assess and handle highly sensitive and confidential matters with considerable discretion and independent judgement
Demonstrated positive work ethic and strong sense of teamwork/problem solving with co-workers
.Understanding of Henry Ford Health policies and procedures preferred.
CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSURES REQUIRED:
Licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan.

Employment type
Part-time

Work arrangement
Hybrid