Medical Assistant

Location
:
Somerville
Work Days
:
Various shifts Monday through Friday
Category
:
Medical Assistant
Department
:
Broadway Family Health
Job Type
:
Temporary
Work Shift: Various Shifts
Hours/Week: 40.00

Payrate 19-23 per hour

Healthcare or looking for a career change? If you are looking to make a difference CHA’s temporary staffing department may have a role for you. We offer flexible schedules, varied assignments, competitive pay, and health insurance. Come join an organization where your contribution is valued and continuous learning is part of your day.

Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is a leader in Primary Care, supporting a highly diverse population across the Boston metro-north region. Today, CHA serves more than 120,000 primary care patients during more than 300,000 annual visits. Services are available at 13 primary care centers, 3 teen health centers, via telehealth, and through some very special programs, right in patient homes. As a member of CHA Primary Care, you will be part of a dynamic team that values creativity and innovation.

You will help deliver care across the entire spectrum of primary care – with internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics and women’s health services. You will be in a team-based setting, where primary care works hand-in-hand with behavioral health, pharmacy, complex care and multilingual interpreter services. CHA is also a teaching hospital, with several primary care centers hosting CHA’s Harvard Internal Medicine residency and Tufts Family Medicine residency.

Summary:

Medical Assistants are essential members of the care team. They provide clinical support to both patients and providers to ensure that the patient’s health care needs are addressed, while also contributing to the smooth operation of the clinic by facilitating patient flow.

Responsibilities:

1. Actively and efficiently manage the flow of patients through the clinic:

2. Pre-visit chart medical record preparation and information gathering to optimize the visit.
3. Participate in team huddles and team meetings.

4. Follows special scheduling guidelines such as scheduling for diagnostic testing, etc. 5. Room patients:

6. Assist providers with medical histories

7. Appropriate documentation in the electronic health record to include completion of Health Maintenance

8. Updates preferred pharmacy, verifies allergies, and performs medication updates
9. Check routine vital signs and point of care testing (based on patient’s reason for visit, age and diagnosis

10. Perform screening questionnaires and pain score, as needed

11. Actively communicates with patients to set expectations, e.g., wait times, what to expect during visit.

12. Provides clear and timely observations to providers regarding patient issues.

13. Manages room cleaning, stocking, set-up, and turnover.

14. Assists providers with clinical procedures.

15. Performs laboratory responsibilities as needed (including phlebotomy)

16. Performs venipuncture

17. Assists with other clinical procedures per protocol/tasks delegated to facility care of patient 18. Enters and/or releases orders per standing order policy

19. Delivers After Visit Summary to patient and communicates instructions

20. Supports team based care with asynchronous activities including responding to Mychart and in basket messages within scope

21. Completes paperwork for patients that requires data extraction (ex. health care proxy info, screening forms, etc.)

22. Performs daily quality control checks on medical equipment as needed

23. Participate in process improvement initiatives, including regulatory audits.

24. Participate in staff meetings, MA meetings and continuing education sessions.

25. Assist co-workers in their duties within the limitations of training and scope of practice

26. Performs other related duties as assigned or directed.

Organizational Duties and Responsibilities

1.Is responsible for creating a respectful environment for our patients and ourselves.
2.Demonstrates respect for differences in language, culture, race, religion, citizenship, gender, and sexual orientation and does not discriminate on the basis of income, insurance status, immigration status, or disability.

3.Complies with…