Lab Associate - Lab
Full-time, second shift
Perform the pre-analytic phase of patient specimen testing to ensure accurate and quality results. Gather demographic and financial information pertinent for the lab visit to enable customer satisfaction and financial viability and enter data into Hospital Information System. Transcribe outpatient lab orders and perform entry of some test results received from outside reference laboratories. Assist with non-blood specimen collection for legal urine drug screen testing. Assist in processing laboratory specimens and delivering them to the respective departments. Provide excellent customer service via telephone and in person interactions with clinical staff and non-hospital employees
Requirements:
High school diploma or equivalent required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Previous experience working in a clinical laboratory or healthcare setting is preferred.
Knowledge of laboratory processes and procedures is preferred but not required.
On-the-job training will be provided.
Benefits
Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
Paid Time Off available for use upon hire
Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
Employee Assistance Program
Retirement plans with company match
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.
