Medical Assistant
Company: Cambridge Health Alliance
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: May 12, 2022
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Job Description:
Location: CHA Cambridge Family Health North Work Days: Varied
Shifts Category: Medical Assistant Department: Cambridge Family
Health North Job Type: Full time Work Shift: Day / Evening
Hours/Week: 40.00 Union: Yes Union Name: SH Laborers 381DEPARTMENT
DESCRIPTION:Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) is a leader in Primary
Care, supporting a highly diverse population across the Boston
metro-north region. Today, CHA serves more than 120,000 primary
care patients during more than 300,000 annual visits. Services are
available at 13 primary care centers, 3 teen health centers, via
telehealth, and through some very special programs, right in
patient homes. As a member of CHA Primary Care, you will be part of
a dynamic team that values creativity and innovation. You will help
deliver care across the entire spectrum of primary care - with
internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics and
women's health services. You will be in a team-based setting, where
primary care works hand-in-hand with behavioral health, pharmacy,
complex care and multilingual interpreter services. CHA is also a
teaching hospital, with several primary care centers hosting CHA's
Harvard Internal Medicine residency and Tufts Family Medicine
residency. Summary:Medical assistants are essential members or the
care team. They provide clinical support to both patients and
providers to ensure that the patient's health care needs are
addressed, while also contributing to the smooth operation of the
clinic by facilitating patient flow.Job Duties: Actively and
efficiently manage the flow of patients through the clinic.
Actively communicate with patients to set expectations, i.e., wait
times and what to expect during the visit. Pre-visit chart medical
record preparation and information gathering to optimize the visit.
Room patients: assist providers with medical histories, appropriate
documentation in the electronic health record, check routine vital
signs. Perform point of care testing. Perform screening
questionnaires and pain scores as needed. Initiate team huddles and
participate in team/department meetings. Assist providers with
clinical procedures. Participate in process improvement
initiatives. Update computerized reminders and snapshot. Review and
update overdue health maintenance and open orders. Book screening
tests as part of the outreach process (e. g., mammograms,
colonoscopies) and occasionally booksfollow upappointments (e.g.,
well child visits, vaccine booster visits). Participates in
proactive population management of chronic diseases by
generatingMyCHArtmessages, sendingtemplatedletters, and calling
patients by telephone. Tracks completion of certain patient tests.
Participate in shared medical appointments, including recording
history and findings into the electronic health record.
Participates in the education of students and residents by
explaining the MA role and allowing observation of their work for
training purposes.Qualifications: Graduation from an accredited
medical assistant program; current experience as a Medical
Assistant in outpatient setting and AHABLSrequired. Knowledge of a
second language is preferred. In keeping with federal, state and
local laws, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) policy forbids
employees and associates to discriminate against anyone based on
race, religion, color, gender, age, marital status, national
origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status,
disability or any other characteristic protected by law. We are
committed to establishing and maintaining a workplace free of
discrimination. We are fully committed to equal employment
opportunity. We will not tolerate unlawful discrimination in the
recruitment, hiring, termination, promotion, salary treatment or
any other condition of employment or career development.
Furthermore, we will not tolerate the use of discriminatory slurs,
or other remarks, jokes or conduct, that in the judgment of CHA,
encourage or permit an offensive or hostile work environment.
Keywords: Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge , Medical Assistant, Healthcare , Cambridge, Massachusetts
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