Office Manager

Office Manager

Cahaba Medical Care Foundation is a community health center organization providing medical, pharmacy, dental, and behavioral health services to diverse underserved communities in Jefferson, Bibb, Perry, Chilton and Wilcox Counties. We are a Level 3 Patient-Centered Medical Home and Joint Commission accredited organization, committed to increasing integration and coordination of behavioral health and primary care. This is an exciting, fast paced practice with a strong mission and commitment to providing high quality care.

The Office Manager handles the overall supervision of the daily operations of patient services in a single office. The Office Manager helps maintain a cooperative relationship with all staff at CMCF, fulfills responsibilities as outlined below and generally manages all daily office functions and duties performed.

• Prompt, regular attendance at the clinic.
• Communicates daily with Director regarding clinic operations, issues, human resources and patient satisfaction initiatives
• Coordinates the basic administrative operations of the medical clinic including managing clinical and front office staff
• Manages daily patient concerns and complaints and resolves patient satisfaction issues when possible; alerts Patient Re-engagement Advocate of patient concerns when appropriate and works with Patient Re-engagement Advocate to implement solutions for trends in patient complaints
• Assists with data gathering and analysis for improving clinic operations and clinical quality
• Manages latter portion of training for new medical assistants and receptionists
• Performs employee reviews for direct reports at a minimum one time per year.
• Identifies and reports facility maintenance issues
• Assists with daily clinic schedules
• Ensures that all equipment, supplies and medications are properly stocked, stored, and logged (as applicable) for the care of patients at clinic site. Coordinates with Inventory Clerk regarding clinic and office supplies.
• Communicates with Community Development Coordinator regarding suggestions for advertising through various forms of media for the clinic
• Monitors and approves time and attendance and paid time off for office staff
• Manages the clinical team's daily workflow to achieve clinical disease management and prevention priorities, utilizing quality management tab in the EMR and delegating tasks as appropriate to care team members.
• Communicates normal and abnormal lab results to patients and provides appropriate patient education and the treatment plan as outlined by the provider.
• Triages patient phone calls for providers and helps with medication refills or other patient requests, directs the assessment of urgent patients who present to the clinic in person or via phone.
• Assist providers in direct patient care including medication reconciliation, medication counseling, chronic disease counseling, preventative health maintenance measures, and coordination of care with referral physicians
• Provides nursing care for patients per protocols and as directed by the provider such as: IV infusions, medication injections, wound care and dressing changes, assisting in procedures, and diabetes and other chronic disease patient education.
• Monitors EMR "Needs followup" bucket and follow up with patients and/or referral centers/physicians as needed (i.e., reschedule patients with chronic diseases with missed appointments, following up results or consult notes from physician referrals, reschedule missed imaging or referral appointments).
• Monitors clinical quality measures at the nursing staff level, identifying opportunities for improvement and helping to implement strategies accordingly.
• Participates in regular supervision of nursing and medical assistant…