SUD Medical Assistant

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Full Time Professional Washington, DC, US

5 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $24.00 To $28.00 Hourly

Prestige Healthcare Resources, Inc. is seeking a Medical Assistant to support a renowned Substance Abuse Treatment Program. Prestige provides compassionate, integrated wrap-around services to the under-served populations in the District of Columbia. The ideal candidate will enjoy working with a richly diverse workforce and client base, with an emphasis on individuals with co-occurring behavioral health, physical health and substance abuse issues.

Prestige’s culture focuses on teamwork and adaptability while providing top-notch services.

• Phlebotomy and injection administration
• Knowledge in the fields of medicine, anatomy, and physiology. Preference for experience with behavioral health and substance abuse addiction background.
• Problem Solving: identifies problems, gathers and analyzes information, develops solutions
• Written communication: understands written direction; writes clearly and concisely with good spelling and grammar
• Oral communication skills: must be able to speak and understand English, bi-lingual a plus
• Time management: ability to multitask, work with interruptions, and prioritize tasks appropriately, work in robust environment
• Organizational skills and managing workflow
• Safety, security, and sanitization

• Escort patients to exam rooms, interviews patients, measure vital signs, including weight, blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and document all information in patient’s chart.
• Ensures all related reports, labs and information is filled out and available in patients’ medical records prior to their appointment
• Secures patient information and maintains patient confidence by completing and safeguarding medical records; keeping patient information confidential.
• Prepares treatment rooms for patient examinations;
  Assist Nurse Practitioner, RN, and MD in exam rooms
• Disinfects, cleans treatment rooms following patient examinations; maintain safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing and following standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations.
• Keep exam rooms stocked with adequate medical supplies, maintain instruments, prepare sterilization as required;
  Properly disposes of contaminated supplies
• Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock; placing orders; verifying receipt
• Maintain all logs and required checks (i.e. refrigerator temperatures, emergency medications, expired medications, oxygen, cold sterilization fluid change, etc.)
• Take telephone messages and provide feedback and answers to patient/physician/pharmacy calls
• Prepares treatment rooms for patient examinations
• Interviews patients to obtain their medical history
• Records patient medical history, vital statistics, and test results in patient medical files.
• Performs routine screening tests, such as height, weight, blood pressure checks, pregnancy testing, PPD, HIV/HCV.
• Other duties, as assigned
• Care Coordination (intra/inter agency with hospitals, ER, inpatient psychiatric hospitals, pharmacy, etc)
• Assists with Discharge Medical Planning or moving client to higher LOC and submission of records to QI team for medical auditing. Alerts MD/NP for patients who need to move from outpatient to inpatient when having irregulaties/abnormal ties in labs or office visits/ or who leave against medical advice
• Ensures ROI and Telemedicine consents are signed and uploaded in patient profile
• Assists with new enrollments and patient intakes and documents via the EMR
• Submits weekly billable services (outlined in KPIs…