Medical Assistant
Company: Midwestern University
Category: Healthcare
Downers Grove
Type: Full Time
Midwestern University is seeking Medical Assistant. The Medical Assistant will help establish, maintain, and provide daily patient care and support to the Midwestern University Multispecialty Clinics – Family Medicine Clinic providers. This person works within a team to assist providers with outstanding medical care, including preventative medicine, health maintenance, and chronic care management. The Medical Assistant will provide exceptional customer service at all times. This position functions in a supportive capacity for clinic staff and physicians. This individual must have the flexibility to work the scheduled clinic hours to ensure complete office coverage. This position reports to the Medical Director. Salary is $23.07 an hour. They offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance plans as well as life insurance, short/long-term disability, and pet insurance, holidays, sick/flex days, personal days, and vacation days, plus more.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Administrative Duties
- Demonstrates excellent computer skills and becomes an “expert user” of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system.
- Answers phones, checks fax and portal messages, and routes these messages to the appropriate team member.
- Maintain records and perform filing duties within HIPAA guidelines.
- Orders equipment, supplies, medications, vaccines, and other items as needed.
- Learn and assist with scanning documents.
- Learn and assist with completing prior authorizations.
- Opens and closes the 6th floor area, unlocks doors, straightens up work areas, and ensures examination and procedure rooms are prepared and stocked.
- Schedule patient visits accurately by the provider and backfill any cancellations as appropriate.
- Sanitizes exam rooms in-between patients.
- Clinical Duties
- Greet/escort patient to exam room and direct exiting patients.
- Record changes in patients’ medical history and update vital signs .
- Obtain test results (labs, X-rays, MRI, CT, hospital discharge records).
- Call patients regarding test results, as instructed by physicians.
- Participates actively in pre-clinic huddle and team meetings.
- Provide patients with appropriate information regarding medical procedures.
- Administer vaccinations, perform venipunctures, run in-clinic urine dip, rapid influenza, strep, mono, COVID, and RSV tests.
- Perform EKG, spirometry, and other procedures performed in the clinic.
