Medical Scribe

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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 


• 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 30 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 ([email protected]) and may appear as spam.