Wilshire Endoscopy Center has an opening for aFull-time Medical Assistant.
Wilshire Endoscopy Center, located in Los Angeles, CA, is a premier facility offering comprehensive gastroenterology and endoscopic services. Focused on delivering exceptional care, we utilize state-of-the-art equipment and a team of skilled professionals to meet the unique needs of each patient. With a commitment to safety, comfort, and quality, we strive to provide seamless and effective treatments in a welcoming environment. Wilshire Endoscopy Center is proud to be a trusted healthcare provider for the Los Angeles community.
What You Will Do (Job Summary)
This position requires a highly motivated and detail oriented individual that wishes to work in an outpatient surgery center setting. We are committed to providing high quality service to our patients, our staff and the surgeons that perform cases in our Center. This is a position working closely with both the Business Office and Clinical Operations to facilitate patient care. The Medical Assistant records chart notes that follow each patients services from Pre-Operative care, through surgery, and eventually to discharge, as well as assists the nurses and surgical technicians with managing supplies and materials used throughout the facility. Assists during patient examinations and procedures. Obtains and records patient vital signs, provides nutritional intake and reports results and observations. Demonstrates the primary goal of efficiently providing surgical services that exceed customer expectations and improve clinical and financial operations.Also provides cross-coverage for business office functions as necessary to support patient flow and ensure continuity of operations.
This is a great position for candidates that are wishing for exposure to other opportunities in the outpatient surgery setting, such as Sterile Processing Technician and Surgical/Scrub Technician.
Monday-Friday work schedule
NO call required
NO Nights, NO Weekends, NO Holiday work hours
What We Offer
USPI offers the following benefits, subject to employment status:
Pay range $24 - $25/hour depending on experience
Education, Training and Experience:
High School diploma or GED
Completion of Medical Assistant or CNA training program. Certification preferred
Patient care experience required
Bilingual in Spanish preferred
Computer savvy. Experience in use of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and other common software packages.
Who We Are
We are part of a much larger team with United Surgical Partners International (USPI). At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and healthcare 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.
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.