Cardiopulmonary Secretary

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

Required Behaviors:

• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission

Required Qualifications:

• High school graduate or equivalent
• Medical secretary experience/knowledge sufficient to communicate/work effectively with patients and hospital staff
• Computer skills
• Ability to maintain a level of competency during periods of crisis or stress
• Fluent in English

Preferred Qualifications:

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Medical terminology

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate clinical reception area:
• Schedule test as instructed by Physician and other healthcare professionals.
• Coordinate patient care with staff and/other departments.
• Maintain clinic schedules.
• Monitor incoming telephone reception and appropriate routing of telephone calls.
• Distribute incoming and outgoing correspondence.
• Maintain and order administrative supplies as needed.

Documentation:

• Generate new patient departmental chart.
• Maintain patient departmental chart (filing medical reports/transcription).
• Maintain meeting minutes.
   

Billing:

• Assist with charge capture.

Patient registration:

• Registration and re-registration into electronic medical records (department/hospital).

Communication:

• Provides clear, concise information to patients.
• Effectively communicates with staff.
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:

Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship

• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

Physical Activities:

• All Cancer Center jobs may require lifting / pushing / pulling varying weights may exceed two hundred (200) pounds.
• Activities may include intermittent or prolonged: standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing, pushing, pulling, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching with arms and using the hands to handle or feel.
• Repetitive motions may also be required, such as: wrist / hand movements, grasping, and finger dexterity (as in typing, writing, etc.).
   

Work Environment:

• The job requires exposure to the following conditions: working near moving or mechanical parts, risk of electrical shock.
• The noise level may vary from quiet to very loud.

Sensory Requirements:
Hearing:

• Must be able to hear alarms on equipment, fire alarms, and overhead announcements.
• Patients/families verbal discussions.
• Instructions/feedback from other healthcare providers.
   

Vision:

• Must be able to see and focus on close-up and distant objects.
• Distinguish colors.
• Have intact: peripheral vision.
• Depth perception: judge distance and spatial relationships