Health unit coordinator education in order to become a health unit coordinator students must typically earn at least a high school diploma it is becoming increasingly popular for aspiring coordinators to complete a health unit coordinator training or certificate program many of which are available online. Retaining an emphasis on the patient centered approach being a health unit coordinator provides complete and current information on the topics that health unit coordinators must comprehend moving from the simple to the complex it lays a foundation of skills necessary for all medical clerical workers and follows with more specific health unit coordinating procedures. A health unit coordinator is one who facilities the activities of people in a health unit to work together to deliver quality healthcare to patients the health unit coordinating profession evolved during world war ii as a result of the shortage of nurses and physicians on the home front in order to assume the non clinical duties involved with patient care such as assembling charts and answering phones. This edition of being a health unit coordinator is once again prepared by kay cox stevens rn ma she is a professor of health sciences at saddleback college in mission viejo california and owns a consulting business achievers development enterprises she is a former instructor of health unit coordinators she is a founding member of nahuc the national association of health unit