About the Role
Provides clinical and clerical support to assure smooth daily department operations in assigned medical practice or practices. Assures that the patient and examination area is properly prepared.
Responsibilities
- Greets and escorts patient back from waiting room to clinical area, ensuring proper patient identification.
- Performs all necessary clinical intake activities and documents appropriate information.
- Transcribes and updates patient information, including demographic, medication history, social and medical history.
- Provides clerical and secretarial work associated with patient care, including preparing patient charts and assisting with paperwork.
- Performs and stays current with EMR Orders Reconciliation process.
- Assures the examination area is clean and stocked after each patient use and performs environmental rounds.
- Assures the patient is properly prepared for the scheduled visit to maintain timely patient flow.
- Conducts in-office testing as directed by the clinician and coordinates testing and outside ancillary services.
- Reviews instructions for upcoming procedures and tests.
- Collects, prepares, and processes specimens as directed by the clinician, logging results and reconciling in the patient record.
- Contacts the patient to provide requested follow-up, advises them of test results, or relays clinician instructions.
- Maintains inventory and ensures proper upkeep, cleaning, and testing of medical equipment and supplies.
- Communicates and documents electronic messages effectively.
- Assists in the training of new staff.
- Demonstrates and maintains practice-based competencies for in-office clinical procedures.
- Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
- Maintains and models the Organization’s values.
- Demonstrates regular, dependable, and predictable attendance.
- Performs other duties as required in accordance with their 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
- Medical Assistant
- EMT
- EMR Orders Reconciliation
- Data entry
- Obtaining accurate patient vital signs
- Communication
- Electronic messaging
Location
- Vassar Brothers
- New York
- Connecticut
Work Type
- Full time
- Onsite
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
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 1,001 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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