Job Description
Provides clerical support to clinical staff in accordance with department policies. Answers telephones, screens and assists callers, relays messages, phones and faxes laboratory results. Registers and orders laboratory tests from physician orders and obtains proper documentation where required. Distributes specimens to correct departments. Monitors and scans reference laboratory orders and results. Performs billing tasks. Works with various computer programs and spreadsheets for laboratory reporting. Monitors morgue paperwork for deceased entry and removal. Reports to a supervisor or manager. Requires a high school diploma or equivalent.
Qualifications: high school diploma, medical office experience preferred.
Performs routine clerical functions in accordance with departmental policies, and assigned duties as required, including:
* Customer service tasks
* Patient and specimen registrations
* Specimen processing
* Practices excellent phone and communication skills
* Reviewing physician orders and entering in the Laboratory computer system
* Distributes reports by fax, phone and electronically
* Operating various office equipment such as scanners, fax and copy machines, etc.
* Miscellaneous billing tasks.
Franklin, TN
Community Health Systems is a Fortune 500 company based in Franklin, Tennessee. It was the largest provider of general hospital healthcare services in the United States in terms of number of acute care facilities. As of December 31, 2016, it owns, leases or operates 158 hospitals in 22 states.
In August 2015, the company announced plans to spin off 38 hospitals and its management and consulting subsidiary, Quorum Health Resources, into a new publicly traded company called Quorum Health Corporation. The company completed the spinoff of Quorum Health Corporation on April 29, 2016. Quorum owns or leases hospitals across 16 states, primarily in cities or counties with populations of 50,000 or less. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol: QHC.
On October 3, 2016, CHS was removed from the S&P Midcap 400 and added to the S&P Smallcap 600. Under CEO Wayne T. Smith, the Company's stock has lost over 76% of its value since the year 2000.