About Us
We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.
Overview
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Pay Range
USD $28.34 - USD $28.92 /Hr.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer.
We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.
Overview
We are seeking a Medical Assistant to join our team.
Responsibilities
- Reviews schedule for the day, assembling necessary charts and equipment to ensure smooth patient flow through the office.
- Answers telephones, routes callers, takes messages and provides routine information to callers; responds to routine inquiries from family and patients on medical instructions, prescriptions; contacts patients by telephone as required to arrange and confirm appointments.
- Orients patient to care setting and obtains information that will aid in evaluating patient's current state of health.
- Prepares patient for medical examination and/or interview (e.g., conducts to examining room, provides proper gown); records patient's vital signs, blood pressure, pulse, temperature; takes appropriate anthropometric measurements.
- Collects specimens from patients and performs procedures in accordance with protocols (e.g., EKGs, venipuncture; taking urine samples); fills out lab forms and labels blood tubes.
- Fills out requests for lab tests and arranges for specimens to be picked up; contacts laboratories for results and reports to physician.
- Assists in updating and maintaining complete patient records (e.g., assures that test results are entered).
- Makes sure that examining rooms and procedures are fully equipped and stocked each day; cleans rooms as appropriate between procedures; disposes of trash, needles and sharp items, etc. in appropriate containers
- Makes sure that appropriate equipment is available for procedures and properly set up. Reports equipment problems to appropriate individual or department
- Assists physician with procedures as appropriate (e.g., sets up area for appropriate procedure, brings charts to examining room, maintains cast removal equipment)
- Assists patient/family with referrals, appointments as necessary by contacting appropriate agency or physician and/or arranging appointments
- Maintains adequate inventory of equipment and medical and office supplies, reordering as necessary
- Patient care responsibilities are delivered with a knowledge of patient growth and development and are appropriate to the ages of the patients served
- Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards
Qualifications
High School Diploma or equivalent required; 1-2 years of Medical Assistant experience preferred. Certification as a Medical Assistant required, phlebotomy Required. Must pass customer service test. EMR Systems and Registration strongly preferred. Typing: 25 wpm (tested) Knowledge of medical terminology. Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) Good oral and written communication skills
Good interpersonal skills. Bilingual preferred.
Pay Range
USD $28.34 - USD $28.92 /Hr.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer.