Responsible for daily report distribution, mail room responsibilities, maintenance and oversight of department office equipment, as assigned, and depending upon departmental need.

Responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Receives and accessions laboratory specimens into the Laboratory Information System
• Prepares specimens for testing on site, or to be sent to sister hospitals, reference labs, outside institutions.
• Specimen handling knowledge required. 
• Specimen accessioning knowledge required.
• Accessions specimens for anatomical pathology as per established policies.
• Files and retrieves slides, blocks, reports for anatomical pathology.
• Preparing the histology gross room for frozen section 
• Knowledge of laboratory tests and specimen collection
• Prior experience preferred in specimen handling and accessioning.
• Handles various types of patient specimens: surgical specimens, biopsies, blood, fluid, urine, stool, etc.
• Answers the telephone, files, prints, faxes report and communicate results to physicians and other authorized medical personnel, observes HIPAA regulation.
• Meet deadlines, multi-tasking, data entry into the laboratory information system, attention to detail.
• Professionalism, organization, dependability
• Computer proficiency required.
• Effectively interact with nursing and medical staff
• May have to perform CPA as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• High School Diploma, Some college preferred
• Ability to handle multiple priorities.
• Accurate and advance data entry skills and computer proficiency
• Computer Proficiency (Word and Excel), Knowledge of medical terminology required. Excellent written and oral communication, Effective interpersonal and communication skills and excellent telephone etiquette, professional and courteous attitude, excellent customer service skills.

Collective bargaining unit: SEIU 1199-MSB

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About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 48,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes more than 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics, top 5 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, and top 20 in Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 11 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

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