Medical Assistant I

**About Us:** ============= *Serving one million patients and their families annually. Advancing medical knowledge, technologies and practices. Developing and educating the next generation of exceptional health care professionals.* With more than 100 locations in hospital\-based clinics, outpatient health and specialty care centers, we provide the most advanced medicine and thoughtful, patient\-centric care to the greater metro\-Detroit community. **Job Summary:** ================ The Medical Assistant will assist Physicians with testing, examinations, education, and treatment of patients.**Job Description:** ==================== **Essential Duties and Responsibilities:** * Greet and escort patients to examination rooms; take detailed medical history * Take and enter into medical record patients’ vital signs; alert physician or nurse of any abnormalities * Perform testing and/or sample collection including blood draws, electrocardiograms, injections, cultures, biopsies, urinalyses, etc.; ensure all collected samples are properly labeled and transported in a timely fashion * Assist physician with medical procedures * Follow\-up/track receipt of results from tests and procedures ordered by the physician * Check encounter forms, diagnostic laboratory forms and physician orders on patients’ records for accuracy and completeness * Maintain a safe and clean environment; clean equipment and examination rooms according to established procedures * Retrieve and deliver paperwork or supplies and distribute forms, etc. to other departments * Maintain various logs including maintenance, inventory and biopsy * Perform clerical duties including photocopying, data entry, faxing, e\-mailing, ordering supplies, establishing and following up on appointment scheduling and maintaining and retrieving patient records * Perform reception duties including answering telephones and taking and relaying messages * Establish and maintain productive working relationships with people insid