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Patient Intake Personnel
ORGANIZATION: PARTNERS FOR RURAL HEALTH IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
Partners for Rural Health in the Dominican Republic (PRHDR) is recruiting Intake Personnel, who will conduct patient intake at our medical clinics in the Dominican Republic. This position will take place from December 31 to January 12, 2017
Responsibilities: This person will:
- Interview patients to get all necessary information;
- Ensure all intake data is collected, completed and communicated clearly;
- Be responsible for performing intake of all patients on a timely basis;
- Be responsible for retrieving and subsequently refiling patient files correctly and carefully, as per the PRHDR system;
- Ensure all intake data is collected, completed and communicated;
- Prepare files and admissions materials for each clinic the day before; and
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Experience - Helpful to have some secretarial skills, filing experience
Qualifications:
- Ability to maintain patient confidentiality;
- Conversational Spanish skills (desirable);
- Strong interpersonal skills required;
- Well organized;
- Ability to work with client files;
- Ability to communicate well with patients;
- Must have a pleasant manner dealing with clients;
- Must be able to relate to and work with people who are ill, disabled, elderly; and
- Ability to live and work in rural areas with basic living conditions.
Physical Exertion: Some physical exertion will be required for this position. The person will be required to help load trucks each morning, carrying files and some medications and equipment. Some of PRHDR’s clinics are accessible only by foot and some hiking is therefore required.
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About PARTNERS FOR RURAL HEALTH IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Location:
PO BOX 1742, PORTLAND, ME 04104, US
Mission Statement
To engage, empower and educate the rural villagers we serve through our health missions and to support cross-cultural service-learning by collaborating with educational organizations and Dominican partners in the delivery of health services to under-served populations in the northern Dominican Republic.
Description
PRHDR is a Maine based, 501c3 nonprofit corporation (non-membership). The current organization grew out of a partnership program founded in 1995 to promote health in rural areas of the northern Dominican Republic while offering international service-learning opportunities for volunteers and students in the health professions.
PRHDR missions provide community health clinics in villages twice a year, staffed by volunteer health professionals; Dominican partners; faculty members from participating educational institutions (Univ. of Maine System Schools of Nursing and Language Departments, UNE School of Medicine, Husson Univ., etc.); Peace Corp members; experienced volunteer medical interpreters; and students. Returning bi-annually to the same villages to provide continuity of care to residents who would otherwise have no or limited access to health services, PRHDR also delivers health and pharmaceutical supplies, donated or purchased, to the community sites, providing adequate amounts between missions for individuals served. PRHDR also trains selected residents in the villages as Health Promoters to monitor at-risk clients, promote the safe use of medicines, and help maintain personal health between missions.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Lajas de YaroaSantiago, Dominican Republic
DATE POSTED
August 3, 2016
SKILLS
- Office Management
- Healthcare
- Nursing
- Physician
- Administrative Support
- Customer Service
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Two-weeks from December 31 to Jan 12 2017