We’re changing lives every day. For both our patients and our team members. We’re looking for a Medical Assistant, Specialist Cardiology to join our team. This is an unlicensed medical professional who has received specialized training to perform routine administrative and clinical tasks to support the Specialist PCP and provide a great patient experience.
Requirements
- Measures and records patient vital signs
- Records patient interview and medical history
- Collaborates with care team to ensure specialist related medical records and consult notes are obtained
- Prepares patients for examinations and performs routine screening tests
- Assists physician with exams
- Explains treatment procedures and physicians' instructions to patient
- Observes patients and reports any changes in patient conditions to the Specialist, PCP, Clinician, and/or other clinical personnel
- Perform non-critical medical and therapeutic procedures based on medical instructions
- Collects phlebotomy and other lab specimens
- Performs basic waived lab tests
- Prepares and administers medications
- Changes dressings, applies bandages, removes sutures and other first aid procedures
- Uses CPR skills when necessary
- Calls in prescriptions to the pharmacy
- Provides health coaching to a defined group of patients
- Catalogs and communicates patient needs to the Specialist, PCP, Clinician, and/or other clinical personnel
- Maintains supplies, equipment, stocks and sterilizes instruments
- Practices OSHA safety standards
- Performs accurate, legal, and ethical documentation at all times
- Greet patients and schedules appointments upon check-out
- Ensures all patients have follow up appointments with PCP and Specialist
- Reschedules appointments as necessary
- Ensures Specialist orders are completed and patients scheduled accordingly
- Presents patients with customer service survey during check out and escalates if needed for immediate service recovery
- Processes patient phone messages
- Returns calls and routes them to other team members as appropriate
- Calls patients to obtain and relay pertinent information for the physician
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits
- Career development and advancement opportunities
- Great work-life balance
