Stephanie Mcmurdo Email & Phone Number

Escondido, California, United States

Oceanside, California, United States

• Specialty office – Behavioral Health, Acupuncture, Chiropractic + Dental; Quick Care and Adults Departments• Developed work plans to meet health center goals – in the process, motivated and held health center staff accountable to establish goals. Reviewed and approved requests for employee time off, Provider time off and CME requests, troubleshooted for unplanned absences. • Employee Retention + Experience – recommended and made decisions to hire, transfer, or suspend layoff, recall, promote, discharge, assign reward or discipline; Promoted equal employment opportunity and affirmative action. Evaluated staff performance and provided guidance and coaching. Kept staff informed of organizational activities and promoted mission and goals. • Quality Management – responded promptly and with caring actions to patients and employees. Acknowledged and practiced professional working relationships with all levels of staff, clients and the public; Encouraged complete accountability with quality measures pertaining to a patient’s overall wellbeing – audited outreach + documentation to ensure quality measures were captured. • Productivity – Ensured health center productivity and budget expectations were met; gathered and reported data for fiscal, statistical and analysis purposes. Monitored Provider schedules + kept team informed and aware of company goals to meet productivity and quality measures. • Patient Experience – Addressed grievances, complaints, and feedback provided by patients on the care received. Maintained privacy of all patients, employee and volunteer information and accessed such information only on a need to know basis. • Clinic Maintenance – completed facility report monthly to ensure compliance of fire department regulations; Connected with facilities/IT team to address physical + technological challenges that arose; Ensured compliance and maintenance of patient exam rooms. Ordered clinic supplies for front and back office.

United States

• Conducted annual + routine evaluations for direct reports. • Implemented organization policies and procedures at the Site, including fulfilling requirements of funding sources and grant programs. • Scheduled, prepared and presented at meetings which includes agenda preparation + facilitation of monthly operational meetings.• Fostered effective communication and teambuilding among staff to enhance employee and patient satisfaction. • Positively impacted patient experience by demonstrating values of transforming care. • Shared accountability for overall patient health outcomes, working in coordination with Care Teams. • Performed ergonomic evaluations as new hires were onboarded.

Escondido, California, United States

• Health Plan Engagement – attended and participated in meetings with various health plans to learn about current metrics & learn about P4P measures.• Presented health concepts to patients for Annual Wellness Visits – assisted with development and implementation of the MA workflow & Outreach/Scheduling process for AWVs for HEX and Prospect. • Nurtured relationships with contracted Dental Affiliated Partners to transition members into our network.• Assisted Program Manager – Member Engagement with data analysis – made improvements to current workflows for our Member Engagement team (such as New Member outreach, transitioning Medicare patients (and existing for AWV), Pediatric, and WH).

Escondido, Ca

• Created workflow processes for COVID testing/patient care.• Maintained & compiled data on PPE count, patient testing for COVID, and clinical measures • Maintained professional working relationships with all levels of staff, clients and the public - Trained & mentored new hires • Contributed to the success of the organization by participating in quality improvement activities - such as monitoring cancer screening outreach, diabetic patient, recall reports etc.• Utilized Analytics to pull reports – via Care Coordination tool, FIT incentive, Provider rosters, etc• Adjusted daily assignments to provide sufficient coverage where needed• Reported any equipment failure & responded appropriately to correct the problem

Escondido, California

Part Time Position in Urgent Care Facility; please see previous MA Career Experience for description.

Escondido, Ca

Project Dulce - A diabetes care and education program that addresses the specific needs of culturally diverse populations. Trained to provide diabetes self-management education and support; incorporated socio-cultural research to adapt education material to address the needs of the population; Drew routine labs for a comprehensive analysis of the patient. Assisted in Diabetes Peer Group visits conducted in both English and Spanish.Responsibilities also included but not limited to: charting patient health information, taking vitals, cleaning up exam rooms, providing patient education, administering injections (performed successful IM, ID, SQ injections), performing venipunctures, performing various lab tests – Urinalysis, Strep Tests, Random Glucose, HbA1c, etc; ordering labs, submitting referrals, restocking items in patient rooms, procedure set ups & assistance, and assist Providers directly -- in BH, Pediatric, IM, FP, Chiropractic, CDE.Operated within an Urgent Care & Primary Care clinic w/ Specialty Services. For previous administrative experience relating to the role, please refer to below positions as those are skills I've nurtured outside of Medical Assisting but still utilize in my current position.

Escondido, Ca

Experience reviewing patient accounts to ensure all information is accurate – scheduled appointments for patients by telephone or in person; registered patients for their appointments and recorded arrived/no show/cancelled, verified insurances, receive payments, and registering patients for services provided; took payments for lab orders; created telephone encounters for Providers regarding patient inquiries; documented all patient demographics and charted all paperwork into a patient’s file. Familiar with HIPAA laws, EMR and referrals. Scanned and reviewed patient forms to ensure they were properly charted. Received faxes, filed and assigned them to the correct Provider/Staff Member.

Schedule and confirm patient appointments, check-ups and physician referrals.Answer telephones and direct calls to appropriate staff.Greet visitors, ascertain purpose of visit, and direct them to appropriate staff.Compile and record medical charts, reports, and correspondence.

Pasadena, Ca & Rosemead, Ca

Responsibilities Included:- Interacting with customers by assisting them in their inquiries, selecting their choice of product, and finalizing their order at the register.- Maintenance of the store : Cleaning up after a customer, tidying up the products in the store, wiping the windows, mopping the floor, organizing boxes.- Receiving inventory from the Warehouse, placing it next to the brand of shoes it belongs to, also picking out shoes that were requested for the Warehouse.

Responsibilities Include (and not limited to):- Administrative work : Filling out applications, filing claims for missing packages with UPS and USPS, making product listings on Amazon, preparing labels for packages that needed to be sent out not related to our industry (shoes).- Customer Service: Returning phonecalls to customers that called in to inquire about a product, processing orders and printing labels from UPS/USPS to ship the order out, answering emails online regarding customer inquiries - which could be related to our products or for a missing package or other inquiries, assisting a customer with their questions when they call in or need assistance with an order, processed returns and refunds, main focus with ensuring a customer has a good experience with our company.- Shipping and Mailing : Ordering supplies, assisting the crew with packaging, taping and getting orders prepared for UPS/USPS, receiving inventory and stocking it - also with preparing products to be sent elsewhere by labeling them.

Certificate, Allied Health And Medical Assisting Services

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Medical Anthropology

Focus on the study of medical systems, health care systems, access to and utilization of health care, medicinal concepts and practices.