Located at Miami Valley Hospital's Histology Department (Dayton, OH)
Full-Time Day Shift (8:30 AM-5:00 PM)
Position Summary:
The Pathology Administrative Assistant performs various administrative tasks to support the Anatomic Pathology department.
Responsibilities:
- Provide pathology workflow support to ensure timely and accurate reporting to physicians.
- Attend to requests for loan of blocks and slides for send-out.
- Ensure timely scanning of pathology sendout reports into EPIC as required.
- Answer and respond to phone calls as necessary.
- Attend to materials related to pathologists requesting Outside Consultation as per office protocol.
- Open and distribute US Mail and Interoffice mail.
- Organize Surgical Pathology Case QA Review.
- Track Slide Send-outs and Returns.
- Serve as backup to Pathology Office Manager as needed.
- Track QA Forms for conferences: Breast, Thoracic, GYN, Surgical Outside Consult, Tumor Board, Hepatobiliary, and Neuro.
- Type addendums and amendments to surgical reports in a timely manner.
- Transcribe and revise Consultation as requested by the pathologist.
- Transcribe bone marrow and flow cases as requested by the pathologist.
- Schedule pathologists to various locations and document schedules as needed .
- Assist with copying and processing any Pathology documents as requested.
- Comply with all company, department, and regulatory policies and procedures.
- Handle client related questions and problems in a courteous and efficient manner.
- Promote positive communications with patients, clients, coworkers and affiliated hospital staff.
- Other duties as assigned, such as copying, filing, logging into CAP required documentation consultation book.
Qualifications:
- Must be a high school graduate or equivalent, preferably with additional medical terminology and computer skills.
- Must be proficient in typing (65 wpm) and spelling.
- Prefer pathology transcription experience but must be able to transcribe medical dictation and decipher hand written reports.
- Proficiency in appropriate department functions must be demonstrated after initial training.
- Good oral and written communication skills are essential.
- Good customer service skills are also required.
Physical & Safety Demands:
- Effectively organize and prioritize work in response to changing needs of Pathologists.
- Good communication skills and ability to work productively with others.
- Exercise sound reasoning ability and good independent judgment.
- Daily involvement with confidential information and data.
- Possible exposure to hazardous and biohazard materials.
- Be familiar with and adhere to safety, ergonomic and health policies of the Company.
- Comply with all PPE requirements when in the laboratory or other biohazard areas.
- Complete required safety training and health evaluations in a timely manner.
- Anticipate safety hazards, act upon unsafe situations and promote safety awareness.