Kaweah Health
Medical Assistant
Visalia, California · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$20k-$30kDetected 7 days ago
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About the role
- With more than 5,000 employees, Kaweah Health provides state-of-the-art medicine and high-quality preventive services in our acute care hospital, specialized health centers and clinics.
- Our eight-campus healthcare district has 613 beds and offers comprehensive health services across a broad continuum of care.
- It takes a special person to work for Kaweah Health.
Responsibilities
- May be assigned to perform, label, and record venipuncture and capillary puncture according to written procedures.
- Labels and maintains proper storage for specimens and tests.
- Delivers tests and obtains results.
- Maintains quality control and participates in performance improvement projects.
Requirements
- Required: Heartsaver AED
- Prefer 1-2 years of experience.
- For SRCC: Prefer 1-2 years of experience.
- May be required to obtain pre-certification for procedures.
- Attends required meetings, and in-services.
- Provides instructions to patient as required.
- when testing required, includes successful completion of the Language Resource Assistant (LRA) test at a Clinical level.
- License /Certification
- Education
- Required: Completion of a Medical Assistant training program or proof of training under a licensed physician.
- For Rural Health Clinics and GME-Family Medicine Center: prefer bilingual in Spanish, need to be determined by hiring leader at time of job opening based on clinic needs.
- For Rural Health Clinics and GME-Family Medicine Center: when testing required, includes successful completion of the Language Resource Assistant (LRA) test at a Clinical level. LRA is a language assessment test that demonstrates written and oral interpretation/translation technique skills. Test will be administered if selected.
- Department Specific Requirements
- Essential
- Prepares exam rooms for patient visit. Stocks and orders supplies as needed. Arranges for sterilization of instruments and makes sure equipment is clean and in good repair and in proper place before each patient visit.
- Escorts patients to exam rooms. May take and record vital signs. Makes sure all paperwork is completed. Assists with patient flow.
- Assists care givers with procedures and treatments as directed and allowed by scope of care practices.
Skills
- Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- LRA is a language assessment test that demonstrates written and oral interpretation/translation technique skills.
Compensation
- $20.00 -$30.00
Benefits
- Full-Time Benefit Eligible
- 7202 KH Medical Clinic - Akers Specialty
- Kaweah Health is a publicly owned, community healthcare organization that provides comprehensive health services to the greater Visalia area in central California.
- Throughout it all, our focus is to make a difference, and we do - in the health of our patients, our loved ones, and our community.
- Benefits Eligible
- Enters appropriate information into medical record, adhering to medical record guidelines.
- Distributes out-patient education materials as directed.
- Conducts all aspects of patient problem follow-up in coordination with the medical provider.
- ALL SRCC employees may be required to work at any of the offices- Radiation Oncology, Medical Oncology both in Visalia and in Hanford.
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