About Us

Bakersfield Behavioral Healthcare Hospital, located in Bakersfield, California, is an acute psychiatric and behavioral 90 bed facility situated on 8.8 acres.

We offer inpatient and outpatient services for children, adolescents and adults needing mental/behavioral health, chemical dependency; and co-occurring disorders treatment through our medically supervised detoxification.

Within our Workplace Community, BBHH is striving daily to be one of the BEST PLACES TO WORK not just here in Kern County, but throughout the Behavioral Healthcare Community.

By offering amazing benefits, encouraging individual growth and development, and incorporating our CARES values system into our daily operations, we are creating a workplace culture where people enjoy coming to work each day.

BBHH CARES about your experience as a candidate and we encourage you to apply to our open positions.

Compassion

Acceptance
Respect

Empowerment

Sincerity

Job Summary

The UR Coordinator is responsible for the utilization review process at BBHH. Administrative and clerical functions of the Department, including but not limited to, assisting with UR documentation and processes, coordinating and updating the UR Director on important details regarding medical denials or stay information, assisting other departments with patient documentation, completing the daily reports, follow-up on UR Claims, tracking and updating UR Data, answering the phones, ensuring forms and documents are updated and compliant, and assisting the UR Director as necessary. The person in this position serves as a resource for payors, vendors, patients, families, physicians, staff, administration, and visitors in the hospital. A critical function of this position is to coordinate the flow of information and activities supporting the delivery of safe, quality patient care.

This is a PART-TIME position working a maximum of 24 hours per week.