Phlebotomist
Full Time - First Shift
BHCOR-Laboratory I Corbin, KY
Clinical Laboratory Services provides an array of timely and accurate diagnostic testing and other services to Baptist Health Corbin's patients, and to other patients and organizations in support of the facilities mission, vision and strategic priorities.
The phlebotomist is responsible for specimen collections, accessioning, labeling and transport of specimens; while optimizing patient safety with minimal medical/health care errors in any or all the sections of the Clinical Laboratory.
Collects blood specimens from patients of all ages using proper collection techniques, safety practices, and infection control procedures.
Accuratelyidentifiespatients and labels specimens according to established protocols.
Processes, documents, andtracksspecimens within the Laboratory Information System (LIS).
Ensurestimelyspecimen collection, handling, and delivery to support efficient laboratory operations.
Communicates professionally and compassionately with patients, physicians, and coworkers whilemaintainingpatient confidentiality.
Supports quality assurance initiatives and follows all hospital safety, infection control, and regulatory guidelines.
Assistswith inventory monitoring, supply management, and training of new employees and students.
Provides excellent customer service and responds promptly to patient and departmental needs.
Requirements:
Benefits
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.
