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Opportunities with Genoa Healthcare. A career with Genoa Healthcare means you're part of a collaborative effort to serve behavioral health and addiction treatment communities. We do more than just provide medicine: we change lives for the better. People with serious mental or chronic illness - and those who care for them - have moving stories, and at Genoa we become their voice, their partner. Working as part of a coordinated care team, we partner with community-based providers and others to ensure that people with complex health conditions get the right medications and are able to follow their treatment plans. Our personalized services - in-clinic pharmacies, medication management and more - are leading the way to a new level of care. Genoa is a pharmacy care services company that is part of Optum and UnitedHealth Group’s family of businesses. We are part of a leading information and technology-enabled health services business dedicated to making the health system work better for everyone. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. We are seeking a Mobile Phlebotomist responsible for the efficient and effective collection of plasma from donors by performing venipuncture, monitoring the pheresis process and following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Routes available in both West Metro Minneapolis and South Metro St Paul Primary Responsibilities:
- Draws blood specimens from the patients of the clinic for laboratory analysis
- Ensures sample is drawn from the proper tube, labeled correctly, and patient is appropriately identified
- Verifies patient information and laboratory orders and ensures patient signs appropriate contracts for Clozapine Monitoring Program
- Files lab results and other medical information into medical charts and sends copies of lab results to prescribing practitioner and/or facilities (mental health facility, group home, nursing home, etc.)
- Uses patient condition forms when out in field to document any patient changes in behavior and reports these observations to the pharmacist, case managers, nurses, and doctors
- Transports medications and specimens using personal vehicle
- Demonstrates timeliness in completing scheduled blood draws at clinics and remains available for courtesy blood draws at designated clinics
- Adheres to blood borne pathogen standards and bio-medical risk standards as outlined in guide on Phlebotomy techniques
- Ensures compliance with Infection Control Policy
- Provides medical staff with non-technical as well as limited technical and procedural support
- Performs laboratory housekeeping tasks including keeping shelves stocked, counters, and supply areas clean
- Updates professional knowledge and proficiency through continuing education, staff meetings, training, etc.
- Demonstrates knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations governing phlebotomist practices
- Exhibits knowledge of basic first-aid procedure
- Exercises tact when dealing with mental health patients and being sensitive to timing, situations, and confidential relationships
- Other duties as assigned
- Completion of Phlebotomy or Medical Assistant program or on-the-job Phlebotomy training
- Demonstrated ability to travel to patient’s homes for blood draws
- 2+ years Phlebotomy experience
- 100+ successful sticks/draws
- Flexibility to start as early as 5:00 am
- Reliable transportation and valid drivers license
- Phlebotomy Certification
- 5+ years Phlebotomy experience
About the Company
UnitedHealth Group
Minnetonka, MN, United States
UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions worldwide. We are... Read more