Medical Assistant- Women's Pelvic & Restorative Center

Medical Assistant
- Women's Pelvic & Restorative Center

• Full-time
• Department: 005 - PMG

We are a group of providers united by our clinically integrated, high-performance network and shared belief that physician autonomy is key to improving healthcare. As a physician-led medical group, we provide the tools, talent, and technology that enable you to improve patient care and your practice’s economic outcomes. We remove administrative work to help you transition to and thrive in value-based care so you can focus on patients, not paperwork and policy.

Location:7900 Fannin St Suite 4602, Houston, TX 77054

The Medical Assistant provides high quality care to meet departmental goals; responsibly and cost effectively manages equipment, supplies and ancillary services; establishes communication and maintains good working relationships with physicians and office personnel to facilitate quality patient care; demonstrates an understanding of non-judgmental care as it relates to the psychological and emotional needs of the patients.

Job duties include work in satellite offices, fill in for staff vacancies, and/or taking other physicians call; assists in orienting new staff; assumes role as patient advocate; dress and conduct is professional as a representative; interacts well with other team members frequent exposure to communicable diseases, bodily fluids, toxic substances, ionizing radiation, medicinal preparations and other conditions common to a clinic environment.

Direct Patient Care (included but not limited to):

• Greet and escort patients to the examining room; make them feel welcome and comfortable.
• Prepare and assist patients for exams; obtain urine specimens, check vital signs, document symptoms, complaints and medications, prepare for lab tests and procedures, etc.
• Ensure the patients’ demographic information is correct and updated.
• Assist the physician, residents and fellows with exams and procedures.
• Give injections and/or teach the patient to administer injection when needed.
• Assist patients with obtaining lab slips and/or referrals, scheduling procedures, prescriptions, etc.
• Recognize urgent or emergency situations and act appropriately; reorder and replace items used from the crash cart or emergency kit.
• Accompany patients with emergencies to hospital in a wheelchair or by stretcher; monitor continuously until under the care of hospital nurse; document events in patients’ medical record.
• Put charges and diagnoses on chart forms or obtain this from the physician.
• Instruct the patient to take router copy to check-out.
• Take lab specimens to the dumb-waiter or lab.
• Maintain a safe environment for patients and others.
• Cooperate and interact with team members and co-workers.
• Educate patients on health care concerns and problems, office and hospital procedures, birth control, prenatal, postpartum and gynecological care, medications, infertility, testing, surgery, etc.
• Request and flow medical records.
• Practice infection control; dispose of contaminated needles, drugs and supplies properly; use good hand washing technique; disinfect patient areas after use and clean exam rooms after patients are seen.
• Assist with pre and post-op care.
• Monitor established pregnancies through lab work and ultrasounds.
• Maintain patient charting, testing and flow sheets.
• Telephone Triage Duties:
  Evaluate calls for emergencies and triage appropriately. Document all phone calls in EMR.
• Schedule:
  
  surgeries, admissions, x-rays, ultrasounds, lab tests, aminos, blood donations and other tests procedures, coordinating surgeries and appointments, if needed.
• Educate patients on health care concerns and problems, office and hospital procedures, birth control, prenatal, postpartum and gynecological care, medications, infertility, testing and surgery, etc.
• Notify Utilization Review for verification and “Surgery Notification”, CC to Financial Review; pre-certify if necessary; place information into computer for pre-certification process.
• Send orders with patients to the hospital admitting office.
• Authorize refills of medications.
• Phone new prescriptions to pharmacies.
• Write prescriptions for doctors to sign.
• Fill out lab slips and send them to the lab.
• Review and…