Medical Assistant Front Office
Resume:
Marissa Mendez
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a challenging Medical field position that harbors a team work approach and allows for a personal and professional environment.
EXPERIENCE
Coastal Pediatrics, Ventura CA 11/2020 - 01/2025
Medical Assistant/Front Office Coordinator
• Front Office
• Scheduling appointments
• Answering multiple phone lines
• Checking in patients
• Copy medical records
• Handling payments
• Back Office
• Taking vital signs
• Taking baby measurements
• Growth charts
• Administering vaccines
• Assist doctor with procedures
• Sending lab orders to Quest and other labs
• Xray, MRI, CT scan orders and get insurance authorizations
• Get Synagis authorizations and administer shots
Dignity Health Medical Group, Oxnard CA 06/2013 - 12/2018 Medical Assistant
• Front Office
• Checking in patients
• Taking Copays and verifying insurances
• Answering multiple phone lines
• Picking up mail and mailing out mail
• Making patient packet forms
• Back office
• Taking vital signs
• Assisting MD with medical procedures
• Administering vaccines
• Setting up patient rooms
• Stocking rooms with supplies
• Assist MD with circumcisions
General Surgery Medical Group, Oxnard, CA 06/2012 - 05/2013 Medical Assistant
•Assist and prepare room for minor surgeries
•Take vital signs
•Answering phones, taking messages, schedule appointments, prepare patient charts Aerotek/CMH Camarillo, CA 3/2012 - 05/2012
Medical Assistant
•Back office, vital signs, setting up rooms for procedures, assist doctor with pap smears, inform patients of their results.
James Lin M.D. Family Practice, Oxnard, CA 12/2004 - 09/2011 Medical Assistant
• Record patients' medical history, vital statistics, or information such as test results in medical records
• Prepare treatment rooms for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean• Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
• • Authorize drug refills and provide prescription information to pharmacies
• Clean and sterilize instruments and dispose of contaminated supplies
• Prepare and administer medications as directed by a physician
• Show patients to examination rooms and prepare them for the physician Victoria Care Center, Ventura, CA 11/2000 - 12/2004 Certified Nurse’s Assistant
• Preparing healthy meals, bathed patients and assisted them with oral care
• Answer patient call signals, signal lights, bells, or intercom systems to determine patients' needs
• Assisted nurses with applying clean dressings, slings, stockings, or support bandages, under direction of nurse or physician
• Assist nurses or physicians in the operation of medical equipment or provision of patient care
• Change bed linens or make beds
• Clean and sanitize patient rooms, bathrooms, examination rooms, or other patient areas Clinica Medica, Oxnard, CA 10/2000 - 11/2000
Medical Assisting Front/Back Externship
• Answering multiple phone lines, scheduling appointments
• Greeting patients, vital signs, height and weight and translated Spanish/English for patients and physicians
• Assist patients with preparation for examination and injections and other routes of administration Collection of various specimens and prepare specimens for transport to laboratory
• Urinalysis, hemoglobin and glucose monitoring and Assist physician with procedures for treatments
EDUCATION
Center for Employment Training, Oxnard, CA September, 1999
• Medical Assistant Certificate
Hueneme High School, Oxnard, CA June, 1997
• High School Diploma
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