Health Unit Coordinator

If you are organized and pay close attention to detail, Health Unit Coordinator program is for you. Learn to take charge of ensuring the health care environment you work in runs efficiently, from transcribing doctors’ impossible-to-read handwriting to ensuring patients get the attention and treatment they need. This program arms you with the skills you need, while polishing your interpersonal and communication skills, giving you the professional disposition needed to deal with the public. Essentially, you will be helping those who help. Our 24-week Health Unit Coordinator certificate helps you develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to work in the health care environment. Get an introduction to keyboarding, computer concepts and health care with a focus on transcription, medical terms, unit coordinator procedures, office procedures and unit management.

• High School Diploma or Adult High School Diploma or GED Diploma of High School Equivalency

Graduates of this program may find employment as a communications clerk in a hospital environment, in physicians’ offices, nursing homes, medical clinics, or other areas where medical-clerical employees are needed.

1221 - Administrative officers
1411 - General office support workers
1413 - Records Management and Filing Clerks
3414 - Other assisting occupations in support of health services

• Introduction to Health Care
• Unit Coordinator Procedures/Unit Management
• Medicolegal Principles
• Medical Terminology
• Medical Transcription
• Interpersonal Relations
• Business Communications
• Computer Concepts
• Office Procedures
• MS Office
• Meditech System
• CPR
• Work Practicum