Imaging Assistant

at  Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System

The Imaging Assistant ensures that all equipment and supplies are readily available, assists technologists with patients, greets and directs visitors, receives and directs incoming phone calls, distributes paperwork to appropriate personnel, and maintains knowledge of all film file room operations in Imaging Services. The Imaging Assistant also functions as a patient/family/visitor liaison in an effort to improve satisfaction and acts in a manner that ensures privacy and confidentiality.

• Customer Service
• Greets and provides assistance, guidance, and direction to visitors, patients, and physicians and directs individual to various locations within the department and hospital when appropriate.
• Receives incoming telephone calls, exercises judgment in prioritizing calls, and directs calls to appropriate personnel. Receives and distributes paperwork and maintains all logbooks associated with Imaging Services.
• Serves as a patient/family/visitor liaison to ensure that all needs are met in an effort to improve overall satisfaction, which is measured quarterly in Imaging Services.
• Quality and Preparation
• Prepares the work area/exam room by ensuring that equipment, linen, and other supplies are maintained and available at all times. Assists in ensuring that all work areas and equipment are clean, disinfected and presentable. Also disposes of contaminated items in exam room preparation.
• Assists technologists to ensure patient privacy and confidentiality throughout the entire experience in Imaging Services
• Maintains knowledge of all film file room operations.
• Performs duties of Radiology Transporter, as well as assists in processing of exposed images.
• Other Duties As Assigned
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.
• High School or equivalent
• Completion of departmental training/orientation
• BLS Certification

The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is a leading health care innovator in Louisiana and Mississippi. We bring together outstanding clinicians, the most advanced technology and leading research to ensure that our patients receive the highest quality and safest care possible.
This commitment is grounded in a history that is more than 100 years old, but reflected today by our strategic vision of transforming healthcare through superior performance and excellent patient care.

In the last fiscal year, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System had:

• 1,747 Licensed Beds
• 65,322 Discharges
• 44,592 OR Procedures
• 10,827 Full Time Employees
• 331,360 Inpatient Days

• 1,915 Active Medical Staff229,296 Emergency Visits

• As a nonprofit, mission-focused Catholic healthcare ministry, we give special attention to our citizens who are most in need. During the most recent fiscal year, we provided more than $39 million in unreimbursed care and community support to the underprivileged.
  Our health system is one of the largest in Louisiana, with hospitals, clinics and physicians located throughout Louisiana and in Mississippi. In fact, we provide care to almost half of Louisiana’s citizens, and serve in Mississippi’s largest metropolitan area. Because of our size and the partnerships we have with other local organizations, we are able to pool our resources and share cost and service efficiencies and learn from each other, thereby accelerating our ability to improve care and solve challenges.
  Since our founding in Monroe, Louisiana in 1911, we have been blessed by the guidance of the Franciscan Sisters. Through their guidance and steadfast example, we have committed to assure that we perpetuate their healing ministry for another hundred years. It is a noble purpose we strive to fulfill every day.
  Headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, we serve patients across Louisiana and Mississippi through a network of hospitals, clinics, physicians, elderly housing and integrated information system. Our health system has partnered with the State of Louisiana as it transforms its healthcare delivery system. The partnership includes inpatient acute care and primary care delivery in Baton Rouge and Bogalusa.
  Following in the footsteps of our founders, the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, our team members and physicians are called to provide high quality care and compassion to all people, especially those most in need.
  As we look to the future of our healthcare ministry, we chart our course by “going where we are called.”

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