Overview
Float Medical Records Clerk Jobs in Berkeley, CA at LifeLong Medical Care
Title: Float Medical Records Clerk
Company: LifeLong Medical Care
Location: Berkeley, CA
Come join a dynamic care team at LifeLong Medical Care. We are looking for a Medical Records Clerk to float to our sites in Contra Costa and Alameda. The Medical Records Clerk is responsible for implementing day-to-day Medical Records assignments and assuring timely response to the provider team. Under general supervision of the Medical Records Lead, the Medical Records Clerk is responsible for the maintenance of patient medical records, implementation of systems for the retrieval of medical records and for supporting effective department workflow.
This is a full time, 40 hours/week, benefit eligible position.
This position is represented by SEIU-UHW. Salaries and benefits are set by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), and an employee in this position must remain a member in good standing of SEIU-UHW, as defined in the CBA.
LifeLong Medical Care is a multi-site, Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with a rich history of providing innovative healthcare and social services to a wonderfully diverse patient community. Our patient-centered health home is a dynamic place to work, practice, and grow. We have over 15 primary care health centers and deliver integrated services including psychosocial, referrals, chronic disease management, dental, health education, home visits, and much, much more.
Benefits
Compensation: $21/hour. We offer excellent benefits including: medical, dental, vision (including dependent and domestic partner coverage), generous leave benefits including ten paid holidays, Flexible Spending Accounts, 403(b) retirement savings plan.
Responsibilities
- Maintains medical records system, including: pulling charts for patient appointments, re-filing charts, assembling new charts and integrating them into files, filing lab reports, repairing charts, and locating charts for medical providers and other staff members.
- Assists triage nursing team by pulling charts for triage calls.
- Duplicates immunization records when requested by patients.
- Responds to written requests for patient information and calls from other facilities by pulling charts and forwarding to appropriate provider in timely fashion.
- Assists chart prep personnel by locating results when requested to do so the day prior to the patient’s appointment.
- Receives daily incoming mail, distributes with charts as needed to appropriate recipients.
- Manages retrieval of charts from storage, purges charts and manages storage of purged charts.
- With instruction from provider, arranges for copying patient records requests and/or complete records requests from outside sources, adhering to timelines for completion.
- Other duties as assigned by Medical Records Supervisor.
