MEDICAL ASSISTANT/CERTIFIED MEDICAL ASSISTANT
Mountain View Hospital
Idaho Falls, IDFresher54m agovia LinkedIn
About the Role
Idaho Falls Community Hospital is seeking a Medical Assistant / Certified Medical Assistant to join our team in a busy pediatric specialty center.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist physicians with patient care, clerical, environmental, and organizational tasks.
- Manage appointments, including care and chart management.
- Provide information to patients to facilitate their use of clinic services.
- Collect and process routine testing, returning results to the doctor.
- Obtain and process doctor’s orders, including data entry.
- Provide customer service to patients, doctors, and other medical staff via phone and in person.
- Work effectively under pressure.
- Perform specimen collection and handling.
- Fulfill patient care responsibilities, including checking schedules, organizing patient flow, assisting with transfers and specimens, collecting patient history, performing screenings, assisting physicians with procedures, charting, and relaying instructions.
- Collect blood samples and other body fluids, ensuring proper patient identification and labeling.
- Transport and deliver samples to the laboratory following hospital policies.
- Maintain knowledge of handling laboratory supplies and stocking supplies.
- Adhere to standard precautions using personal protective equipment.
- Perform sterile technique.
- Manage clerical responsibilities, including sending/receiving medical records, obtaining reports, completing forms/requisitions, scheduling appointments, verifying insurance and demographics, and filing charts.
- Perform facility responsibilities, including setting up instruments and equipment, and cleaning exam/procedure rooms and equipment.
- Maintain Point of Care documents and perform Quality Control management.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Experience with computers and office equipment.
- Ability to read and communicate effectively in English.
- Understanding of medical terminology.
Qualifications
- Graduation from an accredited high school program or higher.
- Current BLS Certification.
- Valid driver’s license.
- CMA course preferred, not required.
- Phlebotomy course and phlebotomy experience.
- Pediatric experience is preferred, not required.
- Bilingual is a plus.