"Alerted.org

Employment Type:

Part time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

At MercyOne, health care is more than just a doctor’s visit or a place to go when you’re in need of medical attention. Our Mission is based on improving the health of our communities – that means not only when you are sick but keeping you well.

MercyOne Clinton Medical Center is a Catholic, not-for-profit, full-service community health system serving counties in eastern Iowa and western Illinois. With approximately 50,000 patient admissions every year, MercyOne Clinton operates 249 licensed beds. In addition to a wide range of traditional hospital services, MercyOne Clinton provides a continuum of care with specialized services in wound care, radiation oncology, dialysis, imaging, sleep disorders, therapy services, and skilled care. MercyOne Clinton has a staff of more than 800 employees, making it one of the community’s largest employers.

Join the MercyOne Family! We are looking to hire a **Clinic Receptionist.**

As a **Clinic Receptionist** at MercyOne, you will maintain clinic office by serving as general receptionist and clerical person. Maintains patient flow, scheduling appointments, triaging phone calls and handling messages. Maintains patient charts and accurate patient demographics. Maintains records on referring physicians. May have contact with patients aged newborn to geriatric.

Schedule:

+ 24 hours per week,

General Requirements:

+ Answers all incoming phone calls, facilitating communication among staff, ancillary departments, doctors, and others by taking and transmitting messages and information to appropriate parties.

+ Greets patients and visitors to the clinic in a friendly and professional manner.

+ Assembles charts for new patients.

+ Establishes and maintains current patient demographics in the record and/or computer.

+ Pulls patient records for next day appointments and prepares charts.

+ Receive incoming test results and direct appropriately for follow-up.

+ Schedules appoints efficiently and accurately.

+ Places calls to confirm appointments.

+ Accepts and records payments for services rendered to patients and does balance and prepares deposit at end of each day. This also involves sending batches to billing center.

+ Processes patient referrals.

+ Maintains patient charts, monitoring location and filing appropriate paperwork.

+ Considers the cost of supplies with the delivery of care for each patient.

+ Maintains knowledge of equipment and continuously learns new technology and is able to trouble shoot equipment, report malfunctioning equipment and ensure its repair and return to service.

+ Maintains and updates information on referring physicians.

+ Sends letters and first appointment findings to referring physicians.

+ Keeps on-line patient management database updated.

+ Acts as Lawson requestor for clinic supplies.

+ Copies provider visits and forwards to billing unit for payment.

+ Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.

Education:

+ High school graduate or equivalent.

+ Must be BLS certified within 3 months of hire.

+ Knowledge of medical terminology preferred.

+ Experience in an ambulatory care setting as a receptionist is preferred.

+ Must display proper telephone etiquette.

+ Must be able to demonstrate basic computer skills in a Windows environment.

+ Must have good communication and diplomacy skills.

+ Must be comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.

+ Must possess a personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission and vision, goals, and values of Trinity Health.

+ Must possess the ability to comply with Trinity Health policies and procedures.

Colleagues of MercyOne Health System enjoy competitive compensation with a full benefits package and opportunity for growth throughout the system!

Visit MercyOne Careers (https://www.mercyone.org/careers/) to learn more about the benefits, culture, and career development opportunities available to you at MercyOne Health System circle of care.

Our Commitment

Rooted in our Mission and Core Values, we honor the dignity of every person and recognize the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents each colleague brings. By finding common ground and embracing our differences, we grow stronger together and deliver more compassionate, person-centered care. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran