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Finger Lakes Community Health Medical Scribe in Geneva, New York
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About Finger Lakes Community Health:
Finger Lakes Community Health (FLCH) was founded in 1989 with an original mission of serving the region's agricultural workers by linking individuals to area resources and providing essential health services. In 2009 the organization expanded to become a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), serving patients of all incomes, ethnicities and walks of life. Over the last decade, FLCH has grown to provide medical, dental, and behavioral health services to over 28,000 patients at eight health centers. With over 200 employees we strive to provide high-quality and innovative health care services to the Finger Lakes Region.
Job Summary:
The Scribe will accompany clinicians during patient visits and document dictated history of present illness, review of symptoms, examinations, and patient history in an electronic medical record system. Medical scribes work closely with clinicians as a part of the team-based patient centered care that Finger Lakes Community Health provides, but are not patient care providers.
Benefits Offered:
Monday through Friday schedule, closed all major holidays
Medical insurance with a 90% employer contribution
Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
Safe Harbor 3% 401k contribution
Robust PTO offerings
Education reimbursement
Duties/Responsibilities:
Annotate any dictated or written information for the treatment of patients following all local, state and federal guidelines for documentation into the electronic health record system.
Clearly and accurately recording each patient’s symptom’s, history, physical exam and documenting the diagnosis
Able to manage laboratory and imaging orders as dictated by the provider
Maintains appropriate behavior in the examination room and does not improperly interact with patients.
Completes chart documentation in a timely manner.
Able to find and summarize past medical visits from external progress notes.
Uses correct medical terminology and makes minimal grammatical charting errors.
Other duties as assigned
Required Skills/Abilities:
Possesses strong organizational skills
Ability to communicate with the public
Maintains a professional relationship and positive attitude with co-workers, the public, patients, and the entire organization
Excellent customer service and problem solving skills
Education and Experience:
High School or Equivalency Diploma
CPR Certification Required
Prior experience is a plus, but not required
Spanish bilingual strongly preferred
Physical Requirements:
Must be able to hear and communicate with clients and staff on the telephone and those who are served “in person.”
Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds.
Must have vision that is adequate to read electronic and paper document formats.
Must possess manual dexterity, to perform writing and keyboarding tasks.
OSHA Level II
Finger Lakes Community Health uses BambooHR for the hiring and onboarding of our staff. All communications for recruitment will come directly from BambooHR (notifications@app.bamboohr.com) and may appear as spam.
Department
Scribe
Employment Type
Full-Time
Compensation
$17.00-$20.00