Medical Assistant - Collins Family Clinic

Opelousas General Health System; Opelousas (LA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Opelousas General Health System invites applications for a Medical Assistant at Collins Family Clinic in Opelousas, LA. This regular full-time role supports ambulatory care by greeting patients, recording histories, taking vital signs, and assisting with in-office testing and injections.

CMA certification and CPR preferred; one year MA clinic experience is preferred. Responsibilities include maintaining exam rooms, handling specimens, coordinating referrals, and ensuring accurate charting and

Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED required, Vocational/Technical degree as Medical Assistant or Related field required.
• Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) required. CPR preferred.
• At least 1 year experience as MA in a clinic/office preferred.

Responsibilities

• Receives patients and determines their needs.
• Interviews patients and records medical history and condition.
• Obtains vital signs and provides routine care.
• Performs in-office testing such as EKG, HbA1c, lipids, glucose, urinalysis.
• Administers medications and injections; venipunctures.
• Maintains exam rooms and medical supplies; assists with referrals and chart preparation.

Skills

Vital signs

EKG

Venipuncture

Medical documentation

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Medical Assistant Certification CMA

Tools

ECW

Job description

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Medical Assistant - Collins Family Clinic

Collins Family Clinic Regular Full-Time Technical Opelousas, LA, US

2 days ago Requisition ID: 2859

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.

• - 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.
• - 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: High School Diploma/GED required, Vocational/Technical degree as Medical Assistant or Related field required.

Certification/License: Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) required. CPR preferred.

Experience: At least 1 year experience as MA in a Clinic/Office is preferred,