Sign On bonus of $7,500 (prior to government taxes and withholdings)

MA-C start at $26.50/hr and increases from there dependent on commensurate experience and internal equity.

Join our team at Virginia Mason Issaquah as a certified Medical Assistant and make a meaningful contribution to our growing healthcare practice. As a Medical Assistant, you will work and assist healthcare providers and other team members in the clinic. You will perform a range of back office and patient-related tasks, ensuring smooth patient and workflow, and performing various patient care procedures that fall under the Medical Assistant (MA) scope of practice. These procedures may include injections, EKGs, ear lavage, blood draws, measuring vital signs (weight, height, blood pressure, pulse, respirations, and temperature), managing patient flow, and assisting with pre-visit preparation, patient visits, and post-visit duties.

At Virginia Mason, we follow a Team Medicine approach to collaborative medicine, and our Virginia Mason Production System has transformed healthcare by providing patients with easier access to care, reducing errors, and continuously innovating patient safety and quality. Our approach has been adopted by other organizations here and abroad.

Join us, and find out how many ways Virginia Mason offers Medical Assistants the chance to focus on what matters - your patients. Make a difference in the lives of our patients, and take your career to the next level with Virginia Mason.

While youre busy impacting the healthcare industry, well take care of you with benefits that include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, adoption assistance, annual bonus eligibility, and more!

Virginia Mason Issaquah is seeking a certified Medical Assistant. You will assist providers and other members of the health care team in the clinic by performing a variety of back office and patient-related tasks and ensuring smooth patient and workflow within the department. You will also perform variety of patient care procedures within the Medical Assistant (MA) scope of practice. These procedures may include but are not limited to: injections, EKGs, ear lavage and blood draws, measuring patient vital signs (weight, height, blood pressure, pulse, respirations, and temperature),manage rooming and patient flow including pre-visit preparation, assisting with the patient visit, and post-visit duties. You will inform providers of schedule changes that impact patient flow, assist with front office activities and varied scheduling tasks and reports test results as directed by the provider.

As a Medical Assistants at Virginia Mason you will contribute to the strength of our Team Medicine approach to collaborative medicine and benefit from the changes enacted through our Virginia Mason Production System, a model that has transformed health care by providing patients with easier access to care, reducing errors, and continuously innovating patient safety and quality that has been adopted by other organizations here and abroad.

Schedules, cancels and reschedules patient appointments by assessing caller's specific needs through probing questions while maintaining patient confidentiality and simultaneously providing each caller with extraordinary and efficient customer service.

Communicates efficiently and effectively with the clinical care team, written or verbally, on behalf of the patient, may be a team facilitator.

Performs one or more of the following:
a) Online scheduling requests- assists patients with their health care needs through a patient initiated online request.
b) Initiates appointment reminder calls to patients.
c) Initiates outbound calls to patients to encourage scheduling of routine and/or preventative care, disease management and medication management.
In addition to providing indirect care to patients, duties may include direct patient care.

Join us, and find out how many ways Virginia Mason offers Medical Assistants the chance to focus on what really matters - your patients.

Required:
- High school diploma or GED and ability to read and comprehend at a 12th Grade Level or above.

- Graduation from an accredited medical Assisting program, With Washington State Department of Health medical Assistant - Certified (CM) or medical Assistant Interim (IC) credential required.

- knowledge of third party payer requirements required.

- Strong aptitude for detail, and ability to work independently, required.

- Strong organizational, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills required. skill in using a PC required.

Located in Seattle, WA, Virginia Mason is an internationally recognized leader in the continuous improvement of Health care. With an extensive list of awards and distinctions that includes our recognition as a Leapfrog Top Hospital of the Decade, Virginia Mason offers medical Assistants the opportunity to partner With exceptionally talented peers at every level.

Just as Virginia Mason is dedicated to improving the lives of our patients and our community, We are equally dedicated to your professional and personal success. With a wide range of perks that includes a comprehensive compensation and benefits package, and the opportunity to live in one of the most livable cities in the nation, you will find that a medical Assistant opportunity With Virginia Mason is one worth taking.

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.