About the Role
Provides clinical and clerical support to ensure smooth daily operations in assigned medical practices. Prepares patients and examination areas for appointments.
Responsibilities
- Greets and escorts patients from the waiting room to the clinical area, ensuring proper identification.
- Performs clinical intake activities and documents patient information.
- Transcribes and updates patient information, including demographic, medication history, social, and medical history.
- Provides clerical and secretarial support, preparing patient charts and assisting with paperwork.
- Performs and stays current with EMR Orders Reconciliation.
- Ensures examination areas are clean, stocked, and performs environmental rounds.
- Prepares patients for visits, ensuring necessary materials are available for the provider.
- Conducts in-office testing and coordinates ancillary services.
- Collects, prepares, and processes specimens, logging results and reconciling them in patient records.
- Contacts patients for follow-up, test results, or clinician instructions.
- Maintains inventory and ensures proper upkeep of medical equipment and supplies.
- Communicates and documents electronic messages effectively.
- Assists in training new staff.
- Demonstrates and maintains practice-based competencies for clinical procedures.
- Fulfills compliance responsibilities.
- Maintains and models organizational values.
- Demonstrates regular, dependable, and predictable attendance.
- Performs other duties as required within the scope of practice.
Requirements
- High school diploma/GED with 1-year Medical Assistant experience, or new graduate of Medical Assistant program, or Nursing Assistant training program, or EMT certification, or 3 years job-related experience in a medical office.
- Basic medical knowledge and terminology.
- Data entry required.
- Skilled in obtaining accurate patient vital signs.
- BLS Certification is required within 30 days.
- Ability to travel between practices as needed.
Skills
- Vitals
- Blood draws
- Rooming
- Transportation for training and coverage
- EMR Orders Reconciliation
- In-office testing
- Specimen collection and processing
- Electronic messaging
- Medical equipment maintenance
Location
- Rhinebeck
Work Type
- Full Time
Experience Level
- 1 year Medical Assistant experience
- 3 years relevant healthcare experience
Education Level
- High School diploma/GED
- Medical Assistant program graduate
- Nursing Assistant training program graduate
- EMT certification
Salary/Compensations
- $18.83 - $34.50 Hourly
Benefits
- Great pay
- Perks
- Benefits
About the Company
- Northwell is the largest not-for-profit health system in the Northeast, serving residents of New York and Connecticut with 28 hospitals, more than 1,000 outpatient facilities, 22,000 nurses and over 20,000 physicians.
- Northwell cares for more than three million people annually in the New York metro area, including Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities.
- Northwell is New York State’s largest private employer with over 104,000 employees — including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners — who are working to change health care for the better.
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