Baptist Health is looking for a Central Materials Associate to join our team in Lexington, KY!
This role is responsible for ensuring the efficient flow of supplies and equipment essential for patient care within the healthcare facility. Duties include physical product or equipment receipt, accurate product storage, distribution, and maintaining inventory accuracy, within stringent ERP system guidelines. This role may also include cleaning and redistribution of patient portable equipment.
Essential Duties:
Fulfill requisitions and distribute supplies to various departments.
Obtain necessary authorizations and signatures for delivered items.
Assist with urgent department deliveries and prioritize requests to meet clinical needs promptly.
Receive/intake incoming shipments of medical supplies and equipment.
Verify shipments against purchase orders and packing slips for accuracy.
Breakdown shipments and stage shipments for receipt into ERP system.
Put away supplies to facilitate easy retrieval and inventory control, maintaining accreditation storage requirements, for stock rotation, and expiration.
Monitor inventory levels (cycle count) and participate in periodic physical inventory counts.
Identify and report expired or damaged inventory for proper disposal or replacement.
Adhere to safety protocols and maintain cleanliness in storage and work areas.
Qualifications:
High School/GED
1-2 years’ health care distribution management experience preferred
Monday - Friday 6:00am-2:30pm, Holidays and Weekends are required
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
