Medical Assistant - Surgical Associates

Responsible for receiving patients, determines their needs and directs them accordingly. Performs optimal ambulatory health care to patients; stocks and maintains exam rooms and nurse’s stations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Plans and manages patient care according to each patient's needs.
• Interviews patients and records their medical history and physical condition.
• Obtains patient vital signs, including pulse, blood pressure, temperature, and respiration.
• Provides routine care for patients.
• Observes patient's health.
• Reviews medical charts.
• Communicates with patients and their families.
• Performs standard diagnostic procedures including EKG.
• Performs in office testing such as but not limited to: Hb A1c, Flu, Strep, Lipids, Glucose, Urinalysis.
• Performs venipunctures.
• Prepares specimens for lab courier; calls courier for pick up.
• Administers medications.
• Provides wound care.
• Prepares and administers injections.
• Assists with patient comfort.
• Maintains medical supplies inventory and performs preventive maintenance to keep medical equipment operating.
• Logs incoming/outgoing sample medications; saving incoming in designated area.
• Counsel patients by transmitting physician's orders and medication refills to pharmacy and progress notes to insurance for prior authorization.
• Schedule procedures/imaging; verifying date and time with patients; prepares charts, pre-admission, and consent forms.
• Manages outgoing referral and follows up on them.
• Helps answer incoming calls.
• Works incoming faxes in ECW; saving, naming, and attaching documents, assigning to appropriate staff.
• Maintains safe, secure, and healthy work environment by establishing and following standards and procedures and complying with legal regulation.
• Keeps supplies ready by inventorying stock, letting manager know when low, and verifying receipt.
• Maintains all instruments used by provider, making sure they are sent to be cleaned and returned.
• Steps in and serves as receptionist when needed.
• Serves and protects the practice by adhering to professional standards; facility policies and procedures; federal, state, and local requirements.

Education: Vocation/Technical degree as a Medical Assistant or related field.

Certification: Certified Medical Assistant certification required.