Rita Access Care De Coordinator La Rosa

Tucson, AZ 85711

ac5yg4@r.postjobfree.com - 520-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

Access Care Coordinator

Arizona Kidney Disease and Hypertension Center - Tucson, AZ - 2017-02 - 2018-05

700 E. Broadway Rd, Suite 100, Tucson, Arizona 85719. Starting February 2017 to May 15,2018. Duties: Ensuring all AKDHC patients that are End Stage Renal Disease have functioning dialysis access prior to starting dialysis, contact with these patients to ensure the best quality of maintenance of their access, i.e annual vascular ultrasounds, visits to dialysis units with surgeon to ensure best practices are being used by the dialysis techs when cannulating the patients dialysis access and scheduling patients that are in need of intervention, reading monthly access flows from the dialysis units making sure their flows are consistant or if there is a significant change schedule them for physician visual, venograms, thrombectomy's ect.., ensure patients with dialysis catheters are scheduled for vessel mapping, and dialysis access placement, scheduling patients that require interventions on access, setting ticklers in patients EMR chart so they are not lost to follow up

Area Manager

Arizona Kidney Disease and Hypertension Center - Tucson, AZ - 2014 - 2017

Duties: Oversee five of our AKDHC offices, ensuring all AKDHC policies are being followed, implementing any changes within the company, teaching and signing off of the staff members once they adapt to the new changes with out hesitation. Keeping reports of productivity, ensuring that physician schedules are full and offices are functioning to the highest level. Approving weekly time sheets of the office coordinators. I provided our HR with information on new hires and employees that separate from AKDHC, I notify our IT department to set up new employees with all the necessary computer usernames and passwords and any other computer needs, as well as for our employees that are separated from the company IT is informed to disassemble all usernames and passwords for that individual. Office Coordinator

Arizona Kidney Disease and Hypertension Center - Tucson, AZ - 2011 - 2014

Duties: Manage the staff and ensure physician clinics are producing at top level, schedules full, ensuring all chart prep is complete at time of patients appointments. Ensuring all patients are scheduled or have a follow up tickler for their return appointments at the time of check out. Ensure physicians have billed for their services and create the claims and submit to our billers. Keep up and order medical and office supplies monthly. Ensure all employees are up to date with required yearly training.

Medical Assistant

Arizona Kidney Disease and Hypertension Center - Tucson, AZ - 2008-10 - 2014

Duties: Assist two physicians with clinics, vitals on patients, anemia management if needed, ensuring lab slips, appointments, nutrition, classes in preparation for dialysis are scheduled. Look at daily lab results that come in and inform physicians of critial lab results. Submit referrals for transplant on ESRD patients, submit referral's to our central dialysis department when our patients need to start dialysis. Urinalysis dip and microscopic testing, Epogen injections done, referrals submitted for patients that need IV iron and Epogen injections. Charting all vitals, injections, patient triage, medication updates, transplant information dialysis access creations, family history, outside lab results and Urinalysis done in house. Updating all demographics on patients. Ensuring quality care to our patients.

Medical Assistant

Foothills Gastroenterology - Oro Valley, AZ -

2003-01 - 2008-09

1521 E. Tangerine Rd. suite 361, Oro Valley Arizona 85755 January 29,2003 to September 24,2008.

Duties: Back office, rooming patients, vitals, scheduling of hospital outpatient procedures, obtaining, prior authorization, triage calls, calling in medications to patients pharmacy of choice. Scanning patient information into EMR chart, answering phones, scheduling office appointments, notifying patients of results from any testing and procedures done by physician. Working in Misys EMR and Tiger software.

Medical Assistant and Office Manager

Frank L. Gomez, M.D - Tucson, AZ -

2001-04 - 2003-01

Duties: Rooming patients, vitals, assist in minor surgical procedures, pap smears, charting, stocking patient rooms, injections, immunizations, venipunctures, INS physicials, urinalysis dips, workman's comp physicals and drug screening. Front office duties to include scheduling, checking patients in and out, answering and making phone calls, filing messages and chart prep, medical records, and biling. Office manager duties, credentialing physician with health insurances, scheduling employees hours, inventory and ordering of medical supplies, PR with workmans comp lawyers, paying incoming bills.

Medical Assistant

Horacio Ore-Hiron - Tucson, AZ -

1999-05 - 2001-04

Duties: Room patients, take vitals, assist physician with pap smears, flexsigmoidoscopy, assist with research trial of synvisc injections, una boot changing, autoclave, EKG, triage calls or walk in patients, callbacks, referrals, scheduling, charting, filing and chart prep. Medical Assistant

Joel Moncivaiz, MD - Tucson, AZ -

1991-08 - 1999-05

Front offfice and Back office duties: filing, appointment scheduling, answering phones, medical records, referrals. Rooming patients, vitals, chart prep, EKG, venipuncture, minor surgical procedures, sterile field set up, urine dip and microscopic, ear levage, splints, casting autoclave, injections and immunizations for both children and adults, assisted with OB check ups. Triage calls.

Medical Assistant Externship: Fred Smith, MD 1773 W. St. Mary's Rd, Tucson Arizona 85745. EDUCATION

certificate

Pima Community College

2000

Certified Medical Assistant

Tucson College of Buisness - Tucson, AZ

1990-11 - 1991-07

Catalina High School - Tucson, AZ

1981 - 1985

SKILLS

Coordination

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Extensive professional experience and corresponding expertise have produced excellent qualifications related to the following positions, Medical Assistant, Office Coordinator, Area Manager, and Access Care Coordinator.

Excellent interpersonal skills; establish a strong patient and doctor rapport. Accustomed to working with individuals from variety of diverse backgrounds and cultures. Well organized and team oriented. Instill professionalism and commitment to office standards and goals.

Ready to apply acquired skills and expertise in an environment requiring initiative, sound judgment and professional dedication.

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