**$2,000 Sign-on/Retention Bonus**
**Sign-on bonus is reserved for new hires meeting eligibility criteria**
BHMG Richmond Primary Care
The Medical Assistant (MA) Admin will be responsible for the coordination of direct patient care activities and providing clinical support to providers within one of our clinical practices.
Duties include but not limited to the following: check in patients, obtaining vital signs (height, weight, blood pressure, pulse oximetry, temperature) and medication reconciliation, patient medical history information, expediting patient flow, rooming patients, stocking clinic with supplies, navigating electronic health record system (EPIC), scheduling and following-up with appointments and assisting with medication fill and refill requests, checking for prior authorizations and scheduling tests, procedures and consultations. May also perform other procedures such as EKG, phlebotomy, lab tests and injections (once competency has been assessed).
The MA will communicate with pharmacies, insurance companies, patients and physicians in a respectful manner and will uphold Baptist’s mission and core values that drive service excellence.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Manages the coordination and flow of patients throughout the patients visit to create an exceptional patient experience.
Proactively check the provider’s schedule and review information within the patient record to ensure that all required information is available prior to their visit.
Proactively obtains any missing information from the patient to ensure that medical records are accurate and up to date, which helps to ensure better care is being provided.
Upon arrival, captures patient’s vital signs, past medical, social and family history, medication usage and preferred pharmacy information.
Ensures compliance with all state and federal regulatory requirements including HIPAA/OSHA compliance.
Minimum Requirements:
High School Diploma or General Education Equivalency
Basic computer skills, specifically with navigating within databases containing highly confidential information, plus.
Basic Life Support and other advanced training as appropriate to be received within 90 days, plus one of the following:
Prior working experience in a medical office/clinic performing clinical MA duties.
Upon hire these disciplines will be assessed for clinical competency and be required to successfully complete an MA orientation | externship as well as complete any additional training as required by the Provider.
Or a Certified MA from the National Health Career Association (NHA).
Upon hire these disciplines will be assessed for clinical competency and be required to successfully complete an MA orientation | externship as well as complete any additional training as required by the Provider.
Or completed any MA education program, but has not received certification as of yet.
Upon hire these disciplines will be assessed for clinical competency and be required to successfully complete an MA orientation | externship as well as complete any additional training as required by the Provider.
Preferred Requirements for Certified Medical Assistant:
Current MA Certification from AAMA, AMT, NAHP, NCCT, AAMP.
Or graduate of an accredited LPN or RN program with current Licensure without restrictions.
Basic computer skills, specifically with navigating within databases containing highly confidential information.
Basic Life Support and other advanced training as appropriate, within 90 days.
Certified Medical Assistant, Medical Assistant, CMA, MA, AAMA, AMT, NCCT, AAMP, NAHP
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.
