Medical Assistant​/Certified Medical Assistant

MEDICAL ASSISTANT/CERTIFIED MEDICAL ASSISTANT

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Description

Mountain View Hospital is looking for a Medical Assistant/Certified Medical Assistant to join our team!

Job Summary

Medical Assistant:
Responsible for assisting physician with patient care, clerical and clinical. Convey a positive image of the clinic. Collect, process routine testing, and returning results back to doctor. Provide good customer service on the phone, patients, doctors and other medical staff. Work well under pressure and prioritize. Perform CLIA waived moderate testing. Patient referrals, pulling charts, filing, cleaning/wrapping instruments, stocking rooms, reconcile labs, rooming patients taking vitals and history.

Answering telephones, reviewing, and assigning faxes.

Benefits

Taking care for our community starts with taking care of our own team. Mountain View Hospital is proud to offer its employees competitive and comprehensive benefit packages. Benefits include:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off (vacation, holidays and sick days) and Medical Paid Time Off
• Retirement Plans (401K with up to 6% match)
• Earned Quarterly Bonus Program
• Education Reimbursement Program
• Discount for medically necessary procedures performed at Mountain View Hospital and Idaho Falls Community Hospital

Duties And Responsibilities

• Fulfills patient care responsibilities as assigned which may include: checking schedules and organizing patient flow; accompanying patients to exam/procedure room; assisting patients as needed with walking, transfers, collecting specimens, preparing for exam, etc.; collecting patient history; performing screenings per provider guidelines; assisting physician with various procedures; charting; relaying instructions to patients; answering calls and providing pertinent information.
• Proficiency in collecting correct blood samples and other body fluids, ensuring proper patient identification and labeling of samples.
• Follows hospital policies and procedures for transporting and delivering samples to laboratory. Knowledge of handling laboratory supplies and stocks supplies.
• Ensure that patients receive appropriate competent and quality clinical care and that customer service meets patient’s expectation.
• A. Adherence by staff to all policy and procedures.
• B. Provides age appropriate care.
• C. Reporting monitoring and management of patient and staff incidents.
• D. Monitoring and management of patient and physician satisfaction results.
• Follows standards precautions using personal protective equipment as required. Knowledge and performance of sterile tech.
• Proficient in clerical responsibilities including: sending/receiving patient medical records; obtaining lab/x-ray reports, hospital notes, referral information, child immunizations, etc.; completing forms/requisitions as needed; scheduling appointments; verifying insurance coverage and patient demographics; managing and charts to ensure information completed and filed appropriately.
• Performs facility responsibilities as assigned which may include: setting up instruments and equipment according to department protocol; cleaning exam/procedure rooms, instruments and equipment between patient visits to maintain infection control.
• May perform special tests such as clotting times, bleeding times, and glucose tolerance tests and report results to other lab personal.
• Maintains Point of Care documents and performs Quality Control management.
• Shows good customer service on phone and in person to anyone that enters the facility.
• Performs miscellaneous tasks that promote smooth operations or other duties as deemed necessary.
• Act as a liaison between our provider and the patient when coordinating community resources, access to specialty services, follow-up healthcare, etc.
• Follow-up and help complete identified referrals. Coordinate with specialists and help to integrate recommendations from our provider. Identify barriers for lack of follow through or potential barriers to community resources.

About Mountain View

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