Patient Access Representative

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital includes 385 general acute beds, 48 licensed critical care beds, 13 state-of-the-art surgical suites, and a full-service Emergency Department with an Accredited Chest Pain Center and Nationally Certified Stroke Center. In addition, we offer a beautiful Family Care and Birthing Center, the Lauren Small Children's Center including the area's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Family Care Center, a Level II NICU, the Sarvanand Heart, and Brain Center with Kern County's first Bi-Plane Interventional Suite, the Center for Wound Care and Hyperbarics, and many more services. Memorial Hospital is a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital and is home to the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House. Memorial Hospital is a member of Dignity Health and is a trusted community partner, serving residents of Bakersfield and Kern County with quality, compassionate care since 1956. Click here to learn more about Bakersfield Memorial Hospital.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Under the supervision of the Diagnostic Radiology Supervisor and the Clerical Supervisor performs a variety of duties that assist both technical and clerical personnel. Transports patients to and from the emergency room/floor as necessary. Assist technologist with difficult patients. Performs PACS duties
as assigned. Retrieves files from storage and purges files from current file room. Applies proper documentation to files. Understands and implements HIPPA requirements. Assist Physicians/floors/staff with Image/report request. Assist Technologist with PACS functions such a Catapult processes, Digitizing, CD Burning,profiling, Teleradiology, Archiving, Document Scanning and Downloading prior cases off a MOD.

Minimum Requirements:

• High School graduate or GED or equivalent technical training

Preferred Requirements:

• Previous radiology or Patient care experience preferred 

Language Skills:

Ability to read an interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the hospital. Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and how to draw and interpret a bar graph. Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form