Medical Assistant
Position: Medical Assistant
Job ID: 400238
Location: US-TX-Houston
Department: TCHPC - Southwest OB
Job ID: 400238
Location: US-TX-Houston
Department: TCHPC - Southwest OB
Talent Area: Medical Assistant
Full/Part Time: Full time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Shift: 8 AM - 5 PM
Full/Part Time: Full time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Shift: 8 AM - 5 PM
About Texas Children's Hospital
Founded in 2013 by Texas Children's Health Plan, The Center for Children and Women is a NCQA recognized patient and family-centered medical home that provides enrolled Texas Children's Health Plan members the highest quality community-based health care, education, and advocacy. We have two locations at Greenspoint and Southwest Houston.
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Summary:
We are searching for a full-time Medical Assistant with our Southwest OB campus location-- someone who works well in a fast-paced setting. In this position, you will provide patient care and excellent customer service in a healthcare setting. You will also assist in the coordination of flow and provider schedules to effectively manage patient care.
Think you’ve got what it takes?
Qualifications:
- High School diploma or GED required
- Technical diploma - Graduation from a medical assisting or emergency medical technician program preferred
- Health care experience preferred
- Pediatric experience preferred
- Women's Health experience a plus
Responsibilities:
- Welcomes and communicates effectively with patients, families, staff and physicians
- Takes vital signs per clinic scope
- Performs diagnostic test as per MD/provider order (i.e. - EKG, newborn hearing screens)
- Processes lab specimens and performs tests
- Documents telephone or prescription refill messages in the medical record and notifies provider to take action
- Turns over the exam room preparing it for the next patient visit
- Assures exam rooms are stocked with all patient care supplies, labeled and within expiration date
- Participates in planning optimal patient flow by monitoring provider schedules and communicating potential or actual
- problems
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