What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Medical Assistant / CMA position at Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center?
Overview
Join our team as a day shift, full-time, Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) in Montclair, NJ.
Why Join Us?
Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better
- Thrive: We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.
- People-First: We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health benefits, and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
- Make Healthcare Better: We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.
Get to Know Your Team:
- Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center is an 820,000-square-foot facility that offers the latest medical programs, cutting-edge technology, and patient-focused care that includes 365 beds, 1,200 employees, and a 27-bed Emergency Room/Fast Track Unit.
Learn About a Day in the Life of a Medical Assistant:
Responsibilities
The Medical Assistant Certified (CMA) provides superior patient care and perform both clinical and administrative tasks.
- Enters, maintains, and reports all medical history, medical coding, and files claims using Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
- Greets, prepares, and takes patients to examination room, this includes:
- Taking patients’ vital signs, temperature, pulse, blood pressure, height, weight, and medical history.
- Understanding, properly documenting, and conveying reason for visit or medical complaint.
- Recording and updating all patient information from pulse oximetry, changes in allergies, and pain levels in EMR.
- Performing venipuncture and electrocardiograms, as ordered by the physician.
- Collecting, preserving, and properly labeling laboratory specimens, bodily fluid, and blood samples.
- Providing patients with privacy, comfort, safety and hygiene.
- Assists the Practice Physician during examinations.
- Explains medical procedures to patients and provides instruction to patients about medication and special diets under the direction of the physician.
- Sterilizes and prepares medical instruments. Ensures patient exam rooms are disinfected, orderly, and ready for incoming patients.
- Assists in maintaining inventory and stocking supplies, instruments and equipment for all exam rooms.
- Maintains appropriate paperwork for inventory control and reviews orders received for completeness.
- Addresses and requests referrals and other insurance authorizations in addition to passing along patient information for prescription, x-ray or lab requisitions to necessary parties. This includes calls to pharmacies, hospitals, and labs.
- Draws and conducts injection of vaccines, medications, and intradermal injections.
- Monitors refrigerator temperature and logs for all refrigerated vaccines and medications.
Qualifications
Job Requirements
High school diploma or GED equivalent.
Graduate from an accredited medical assistant/medical technologist school/program.
Current national certification as a Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) or Registered Medical Assistant (RMA).
Basic Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Microsoft Office knowledge.
Preferred Job Requirements
Associate’s degree.
1 years’ experience in a hospital or physician practice setting.
