Medical Assistant-CVH Senior Care - Full Time

WASHOE BARTON MEDICAL CLINIC•Gardnerville Ranchos, NV

3h•Onsite

About The Position

The Medical Assistant provides comfortable, safe, and professional care for clinic patients, ranging from infant through geriatric. The role involves maintaining an efficient flow of patients for the clinician, ensuring working knowledge of all equipment and required QA checks, and managing supplies. Key functions include working with clinic staff to provide patient-centered care, assisting physicians and providers by collecting patient vital signs and other pertinent data, escorting patients to exam rooms, and obtaining brief medical histories. The Medical Assistant also assists with minor diagnostic procedures and treatments, sterilizes and sets up instruments, and prepares examination rooms. Additional responsibilities include stocking supplies, educating patients and families, scheduling testing procedures, and ensuring all test results and reports are scanned into the patient chart. The position also involves authorizing and faxing refill requests, completing routine medical office duties such as cleaning and ordering supplies, and ensuring accurate and timely documentation of patient care. Communication duties include answering telephones, routing callers, taking messages, returning phone calls, and efficiently working within the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system.

Requirements

Must hold current certification as a Medical Assistant by American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA), American Medical Technologist (AMT), Certified Clinical Medical Assistant (CCMA), National Certified Medical Assistant (NCMA), or any certifications agency recognized by the medical board of the issuing state (or obtain within 90 days of hire date).
Current BLS Certification.
Office Laboratory Assistant license (or obtain within 90 days of hire).
Reading, writing, excellent spelling, organizing, and filing skills.
Patient centered care.
Customer service skills.
Computer and word processing skills.

Nice To Haves

Professional phone etiquette
Bi-Lingual preferred
Previous experience in a clinic setting preferred

Responsibilities

Works in conjunction with the entire clinic staff to provide a patient centered care team with effective communication being the common denominator.
Assists the physicians and providers by collecting patient vital signs and other pertinent data.
Escorts the patients to exam rooms, takes weight and vital signs and assists in determining medical problem.
Obtains brief medical history to include age, date of birth, chief complaint, current medications with dosage and allergies.
Assists physicians/providers with minor diagnostic procedures and treatments.
Sterilization and set up of instruments.
Prepares examination rooms and instruments.
Stocks supplies.
Effectively provides explanations and educates patient’s families regarding treatments and interventions.
Schedules patients for testing procedures.
Obtains test results and ensures that lab reports, x-rays and other Information is in the medical record prior to the appointment and scanned in the medical record according to office guidelines.
Authorizes and faxes to pharmacy requests for refills per provider instruction.
Ensures routine medical office duties are completed as assigned, to include, emptying waste baskets, cleaning and disinfecting exam room counters and exam tables, ordering medical supplies, equipment controls - daily, weekly, and monthly.
Ensures that all aspects of patient care and observations are documented, accurately and timely.
Answers telephones, routes callers, takes messages and provides routine information to callers.
Returns Phone calls in a timely manner.
Relays messages to appropriate staff members through In Basket of EMR.
Efficient with working in EMR and the in Basket within EMR.

Benefits

RETENTION BONUS!!
NO STATE INCOME TAX
Hometown Health Medical, EyeMed Vision, Guardian Dental and Flexible Spending Account.
Vanguard 401(k) with match.
Employer paid Care Flight Membership for your household (full-time employees) (A Division of REMSA).
Employer Paid Basic Life and AD&D insurance.
Unum Supplemental Insurance (Critical Illness, Accident, Short Term & Long Term Disability).
Earned Time Off, Sick Leave and Paid Holidays.
Nevada 529 College Fund.
Unum Employee Assistance Program.
Employer paid Credit monitoring and Identity Theft Program through CyberScout.
Tuition Reimbursement, Clinical Ladder & HRSA Loan Repayment Program (for qualifying positions).
Priority Childcare Enrollment with the Boys and Girls Club of Western NV for ages 9 months+.
Paid Volunteer Hours for staff to help in the community.
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