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About the Role

The Medical Assistant is responsible for ensuring efficient patient flow, facilitating examinations and treatments in a culturally sensitive manner with exceptional customer service. This role contributes to patient care by preparing patients, performing limited procedures, scheduling diagnostic tests, maintaining records, organizing clinic rooms, managing inventory, and assisting medical staff.

Responsibilities

• Accurately schedules tests, obtains films and reports, and prepares laboratory specimens.
• Assists physicians and/or nurses with special procedures and examinations.
• Collaborates with the healthcare team in coordinating patient care plans.
• Electronically submits, calls, and/or faxes prescriptions and refills to outpatient pharmacies.
• Ensures data collected for completed procedures is recorded on appropriate forms and in medical records.
• Maintains medical records, ensuring all required documentation is available and distributing reports and correspondence.
• Maintains orderliness and cleanliness of examination rooms, stocks assigned areas, ensures par levels of supplies are maintained, and completes required logs and equipment checks.
• Performs clerical duties such as greeting patients, registration, scheduling, pre-certification, processing insurance forms, preparing financial records, answering phones, and entering ambulatory care charges.
• Performs simple procedures as directed by the nurse or physician.
• Performs vital signs, height, weight, and screening procedures and documents in the medical record.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical, and/or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

Requirements

• High School Graduate
• Graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant program or at least one year as a Medical Assistant or CCMA or NCRMA certification
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) - American Heart Association (AHA) within 14 days

Skills

• Basic typing and word processing

Work Type

• Full time

Education Level

• High School Graduate
• Graduate of an accredited Medical Assistant program

Equal Opportunity

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status.
• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.