Clinical Documentation Specialist

Trinity Health Ann Arbor is seeking an experienced Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDS) with a strong clinical background and a passion for improving documentation integrity across inpatient care settings. The Clinical Documentation Specialist utilizes advanced clinical and coding expertise to direct efforts toward the integrity of clinical documentation through the roles of reviewer, educator and consultant. Facilitates the overall quality, completeness, accuracy and integrity of medical record documentation through extensive record review. Through extensive interaction with physicians, nursing staff, and other patient caregivers, it achieves appropriate clinical documentation to support the medical necessity and level of services rendered to all patients. Demonstrates understanding of appropriate clinical documentation, to ensure that the severity of illness, risk of mortality and level of services provided are accurately reflected in the health record. Assists in overall quality, timeliness and completeness of the health record to ensure appropriate data, provider communication and quality outcomes. Serves as a resource for appropriate clinical documentation. Communicates with and educates physicians and all other members of the healthcare team regarding clinical documentation and monitors provider engagement. Identifies learning opportunities for healthcare providers. Conducts concurrent reviews of selected patient health records to address legibility, clarity, completeness, consistency and precision of clinical documentation.