Medical Assistant (Bilingual English/Chinese)
Who We Are
Lead by highly successful physician executives with a mission to improve health care quality for underserved populations, Rendr is a primary care driven multi-specialty medical group serving approximately 90,000 patients through its 28 locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.
Department: Operations
Reports To: Site Manager
Location: various locations available across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens
Medical Assistants are an integral part of delivering kind and compassionate care and optimizing patient. experience. They direct patient flow in and out of exam rooms and provide support to providers by assisting in medical procedures and examinations.
Essential Functions:
• Work alongside providers in the exam room to provide care
• Measure and record vital signs, height, and weight for patients
• Obtain chief complaint and gather medical history information from patient prior to being seen by provider
• Perform basic clinical duties and procedures, including, but not limited to, blood draws, vital signs, preparing vaccines, recording EKGs, glucose monitoring, collecting urine samples, influenza testing, pregnancy tests, vision/hearing tests, etc.
• Prepare exam room for patient visit ensuring that medical supplies are well stocked
• Clean and sterilize instruments
• Perform duties to help improve quality measures which may include identifying care gaps, calling patients for follow up, documentation, etc.
• Help maintain clinic compliance & protocols, such as freezer setting, biohazards, sharps, cleaning, infection protocols, etc.
Qualifications:
• Bilingual in English and Chinese required
• Phlebotomist certification required
• High level of professionalism and strong sense of responsibility
• Good communication skills: kind, compassionate, patient interaction with patients and team
• Multitasking ability
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
• Prior experience working in medical/clinical setting preferred
• Familiarity with MDLand is a plus