Friday, August 31, 2007

More Internships

The South Coast's largest employer has internships available but you must
act fast. Read the possibilities (all unpaid) and send a resume soon.

Southcoast Hospitals Group: Several Business Internships for FALL 2007

Anyone interested in these opportunities should send a cover letter (noting
the particular internship of interest) to Elaine Wilcox:
<mailto:WilcoxE@southcoast.org>WilcoxE@southcoast.org

These are UNPAID INTERNSHIPS

To qualify you must have at least a 2.5 GPA and be junior or senior
standing (as of Fall 2007)

* Human Resources department for Southcoast Hospitals Group. Needs
a fall intern to work on various projects. Some of the work will involve
pulling together summaries on employee surveys and updating employee handbooks.
* The Contracting & Re-imbursement Department for Southcoast Hospitals
Group needs a fall intern to work with all of insurance vendors to
establish fee schedules etc. Also has strategic projects that need completion
* The department of Professional Development- Patient Care Services
needs a fall intern to work on action plans, facilitate meetings, work on
special projects involving data collection, performing literature reviews,
making benchmarking calls small projects work
* The department of Health Information Services ( Medical Records) has
several projects that an MIS summer of fall intern could work on including
coding and reimbursement, and creating a physician documentation
Improvement Program (Access database) to create report to monitor the
success of the program- creating physician report cards
* The department of Patient services at Tobey Hospital (Wareham) needs
a fall intern to work on a patient satisfaction research project and start
up a team to address patient satisfaction research around throughput to
help streamline a process and look at
* the need for a stepdown unit. Another project could involve looking
at the budget for nursing to look for cost savings and research change
management and preparation for a division retreat.
* The HR Department at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, MA has
several projects for fall interns including:

* Onboarding Projects- creating surveys- distribution of surveys- data
collection
* Seniority Hours- researching employee files for possible need to
recalculate seniority hours about 12 employees
* Auditing of file compliance for Accrediation visit
* Working with HR consultants on developing, implementing and analyzing
methods to reduce turnover rate in selected departments.
* Assisting with running reports, compiling and analyzing data,
creating charts related to quarterly turnover rates
* Working on process improvement in regards to LOA's

* Charlton Memorial Hospital Gift Shop located at 363 Highland Avenue
* Fall River, MA needs a gift-shop manager-intern. Details are below.
* Position Title: Gift Shop Manager-Intern
* Reports to: Gift Shop Manager & Director of Volunteer Services
* Position Goal: To assist in the day to day operation of the gift.
* Duties and Requirements:
* Proper dress code at all times, i.e. ID badge and uniform/well
groomed at all times
* Complete understanding of Patient Confidentiality/HIPAA
* Sign-in and out at assigned area(s)
* Accept inventory, update on-line inventory, price items
* Display merchandise
* Familiarize yourself with stock and prices
* Prepare daily and monthly reports
* Assist in the sale of merchandise
* Notify gift shop manager when unable to report for assignment

* Position Requirements:
* Must be friendly, courteous and helpful
* Good financial skills
* Learning Methods:
* Volunteer Orientation
* Department Specific Orientation
* Review of policies/procedures
* Gift Shop Training/Shadow Manager
* Attending all hospital in-service programs by volunteer services
* pertaining to the gift shop

* If you are interested in any of these opportunities, please send your
cover letter and resume to Elaine Wilcox,
<mailto:WilcoxE@southcoast.org>WilcoxE@southcoast.org