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Quad City Gastroenterology is hiring a full time Histology Tech to join our growing team!
Histology Technician at Quad City Gastroenterology
As the Histology Technician, you will perform paraffin embedding for biopsy specimens to prepare for microscopic evaluations by the pathologist for surgical cases. You will assume responsibility for the quality of the tissue slides, following technical and quality control procedures. You will be responsible for documentation and may also assist with grossing.
Essential Duties
- Meets all responsibility requirements established by the Supervisor of Laboratory Services.
- Responsible for the preparation of tissue specimens for microscopic evaluations by the pathologist, including surgical, research and outside cases.
- Assumes responsibility for quality of tissue slides, following technical and quality control procedures.
- Maintains work area equipment supplies.
- Performs special techniques including special stains.
- Monitors compliance with safety regulations.
- Performs other related duties as needed.
- High school diploma, associate's degree, or at least 60 semester hours of academic credit from a regionally accredited college or university.
- One (1) or more years of experience as a Histology Tech.
- Grossing eligible per Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) regulations.
- Registered as a Histology Technician (HT) by the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) is strongly preferred.
Pay range: $23.00 to $30.00/hr (Wages are determined based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications and experience.)
Benefits
USPI offers the following benefits, subject to employment status:
- Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
- Paid time off (vacation & sick leave) – Starting PTO accrual is 15 days per year.
- 401k retirement plan
- Paid holidays
- Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
- Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
- Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder & childcare, AD&D, auto & home insurance.
Who We Are
At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and health care systems to provide first class ambulatory solutions throughout the United States. We are committed to providing surgical services in the most efficient and clinically excellent manner.
USPI is committed to, and proud of our inclusive culture. An inclusive culture, in our view, is respectful of differences and nurtures and supports the contributions of each individual, while also embracing and leveraging diversity. A diverse workforce, combined with an inclusive culture, makes USPI stronger and better able to meet the needs of our diverse patient and physician population.
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Strength in Numbers
United Surgical Partners International (USPI) and Tenet have combined forces to create the nation’s largest ambulatory surgery provider. Our combined network of exceptional surgical and imaging facilities includes approximately 20 imaging centers, and over 265 short-stay surgical facilities. Together, our partnerships include 50 health systems and more than 4,000 physicians.
Nationwide Experience
Our partners deliver high quality ambulatory solutions in safe, efficient and caring USPI facilities in communities of every size across 29 states. Our physician partners are focused on providing quality patient care, in part because they are invested in their USPI facility. We provide the infrastructure and support they need to perform their best. This is one of the advantages of partnering with USPI.
Quality Patient Services
We share a vision with our physician and health system partners. Our goal is to provide the quality of healthcare services we would insist upon for our own families. Since our founding in 1998, this goal has helped us grow exponentially. Today, our strategic joint venture with Tenet establishes USPI as one of the nation's leading providers of ambulatory solutions.
Operating Excellence
Our size and experience in developing and operating ambulatory facilities and strategic vision allow our facilities to achieve both high patient satisfaction and solid financial results. Moreover, because we engage physicians in the governance and growth of the facility, we also achieve excellent clinical outcomes.