What are the responsibilities and job description for the Laboratory Aide position at Manchester Memorial Hospital?
Location Detail: MMH-71 Haynes Street (10627)
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The Greater Manchester Region has approximately 2,500 employees. It includes Manchester Memorial Hospital, a 249-bed community hospital, Rockville General, a campus of Manchester Memorial Hospital, a 102-bed facility, a large multispecialty provider group and visiting nurse services. The Greater Manchester Region serves a region of 300,000 people in 19 towns.
Job Summary
The Lab Aide reports to Laboratory Leadership and is responsible for patient registration, accessioning, requisition entry, specimen processing, customer service inquires, answering and directing telephone calls, registration and ICD-9 coding, problem solving, testing-to-billing-or-other patient investigations and all other front-end functions performed in laboratory receiving areas. All duties are performed with minimal supervision and/or semi-technical specimen processing in Anatomical Pathology, Microbiology or Blood Bank.
Qualifications
- A minimum of a High School Diploma or equivalent GED is required.
- Must have a current and valid driver’s license for occasional travel between ECHN business sites.
- Some previous Lab work and experience with the Meditech and CoPath system is preferred but not required.
- This position requires the incumbent have strong English verbal as well as basic English writing ability and be courteous and customer service oriented with good interpersonal skills and a proficiency in the use of computers.
- Duties of this position require the incumbent be adaptable to a changing workload and be familiar with, and able to operate computer terminals, centrifuges, telephones, pneumatic tube systems, copies and fax machines.
- Cytology Lab Aides will have the ability to perform the technical tasks of cytology preparation including mixing body fluids with the appropriate fixative and performing the manual and automated staining and cover slipping preparation.
- Requires weekends and holidays.
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