Company:
Sun River Health
Location: Poughkeepsie
Closing Date: 26/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Job Description
Sun River Health provides the highest quality of comprehensive primary, preventative and behavioral health services to all who see it, regardless of insurance status and ability to pay, especially for the underserved and vulnerable. Sun River Health is a Federally Qualified, Non-Profit Health Center serving communities in Suffolk, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Columbia and Westchester County. Sun River Health is currently seeking full-time Medical Assistant to join our team in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities of a Medical Assistant:
• Responsible for and documenting refrigerator, freezer and room temperatures daily as indicated, and report any excursion immediately to the clinical supervisor or designee
• Maintains universal precautions in the provision of patient care
• Assists the Nurse Leader with monitoring emergency supplies - O2 tanks, Defib pads/battery, and emergency medication boxes - and promptly reports malfunction, missing or damaged equipment to the Nursing Leader.
• Copies, prepares records, and stores and maintains appropriate records
• Ensures all appropriate logs are maintained. Keeps records for laboratory tests.
• Keeps clinical area stocked and in good order. Maintains stock of laboratory supplies. Assures that all dated material is kept current and disposes of outdated supplies.
• Draws blood and collects other specimens as directed by providers and processes accordingly
• Prepare exam room and any needed equipment and assists/chaperones during examination and treatment of patients.
• Takes vital signs, vision, and/or hearing tests, record patient data in eCW, (laboratory results, pain level, PEAS, PhQ, Smoke status, etc.), Document reason for visit and insure CVRs are completed as needed.
• Performs EKGs.
• Utilizes appropriate technique in performing venipuncture to obtain blood specimens in accordance with agency procedure
• Cleans and sterilizes all equipment and logs according to organizational policy and/or manufacturers guidelines.
• Prepares and processes requisitions for routine supplies in accordance with agency procedures
• Conducts routine tests in areas such as serology, hematology, chemistry, histology and cytology using standard techniques and equipment. Collect specimens for out-side labs (ex. Pap, cultures, etc.)
• Perform in-house labs, perform quality control and maintenance of equipment in accordance with organizational protocols.
• Demonstrates competency in answering phones, assembling charts, computer data entry and retrieval of computer reports
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
High School Diploma or GED required
Medical Assistant or Certified Medical Assistant certification required
CPR/BLS required
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $20.50 - $22.00 per hour
Responsibilities
Relation to Mission
The mission of Sun River Health is to increase access to comprehensive primary and preventive health care and to improve the health status of our community, especially for the underserved and vulnerable.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Sun River Health provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, sexual preference, or non-disqualifying physical or mental handicap or disability in each aspect of the human resources function.
Americans with Disabilities Act
Applicants as well as employees who are or become disabled must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with reasonable accommodation. The organization shall determine reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.
Job Responsibilities
The following statements reflect the general duties, responsibilities and competencies considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job and should not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements of the position. Sun River Health may change the specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.
Sun River Health provides the highest quality of comprehensive primary, preventative and behavioral health services to all who see it, regardless of insurance status and ability to pay, especially for the underserved and vulnerable. Sun River Health is a Federally Qualified, Non-Profit Health Center serving communities in Suffolk, Rockland, Orange, Dutchess, Ulster, Sullivan, Columbia and Westchester County. Sun River Health is currently seeking full-time Medical Assistant to join our team in Poughkeepsie, NY.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities of a Medical Assistant:
• Responsible for and documenting refrigerator, freezer and room temperatures daily as indicated, and report any excursion immediately to the clinical supervisor or designee
• Maintains universal precautions in the provision of patient care
• Assists the Nurse Leader with monitoring emergency supplies - O2 tanks, Defib pads/battery, and emergency medication boxes - and promptly reports malfunction, missing or damaged equipment to the Nursing Leader.
• Copies, prepares records, and stores and maintains appropriate records
• Ensures all appropriate logs are maintained. Keeps records for laboratory tests.
• Keeps clinical area stocked and in good order. Maintains stock of laboratory supplies. Assures that all dated material is kept current and disposes of outdated supplies.
• Draws blood and collects other specimens as directed by providers and processes accordingly
• Prepare exam room and any needed equipment and assists/chaperones during examination and treatment of patients.
• Takes vital signs, vision, and/or hearing tests, record patient data in eCW, (laboratory results, pain level, PEAS, PhQ, Smoke status, etc.), Document reason for visit and insure CVRs are completed as needed.
• Performs EKGs.
• Utilizes appropriate technique in performing venipuncture to obtain blood specimens in accordance with agency procedure
• Cleans and sterilizes all equipment and logs according to organizational policy and/or manufacturers guidelines.
• Prepares and processes requisitions for routine supplies in accordance with agency procedures
• Conducts routine tests in areas such as serology, hematology, chemistry, histology and cytology using standard techniques and equipment. Collect specimens for out-side labs (ex. Pap, cultures, etc.)
• Perform in-house labs, perform quality control and maintenance of equipment in accordance with organizational protocols.
• Demonstrates competency in answering phones, assembling charts, computer data entry and retrieval of computer reports
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
High School Diploma or GED required
Medical Assistant or Certified Medical Assistant certification required
CPR/BLS required
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $20.50 - $22.00 per hour
Responsibilities
Relation to Mission
The mission of Sun River Health is to increase access to comprehensive primary and preventive health care and to improve the health status of our community, especially for the underserved and vulnerable.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Sun River Health provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, sexual preference, or non-disqualifying physical or mental handicap or disability in each aspect of the human resources function.
Americans with Disabilities Act
Applicants as well as employees who are or become disabled must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with reasonable accommodation. The organization shall determine reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.
Job Responsibilities
The following statements reflect the general duties, responsibilities and competencies considered necessary to perform the essential functions of the job and should not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements of the position. Sun River Health may change the specific job duties with or without prior notice based on the needs of the organization.
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