Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Laboratory Assistant

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Laboratory Assistant provides specimen processing, clerical and phlebotomy services for the Laboratory and Pathology in a timely, efficient and courteous manner. The Laboratory Assistant demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide age appropriate care to neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.

What are you doing in this role:

Answer telephones efficiently and courteously and transfer calls effectively.
is familiar with medical terminology, basic computer skills and specimen requirements. Accession specimens and order tests in Meditech if necessary
Receive specimens into computer and process them for in-house testing or referral testing.
Log specimens and file copy of each specimen/requisition sent to reference lab.
Will comply with universal precautions and adhere to safety standards and practices.
Perform phlebotomy and urine collection as needed
Assist with Bone Marrow, FNA and EBUS procedures
Accession pathology specimens and prepare for send out (ensure the correct preservative is added, proper requisition for each specimen).
Ensure there are no lab orders before adding preservative
File pathology slides and blocks and send slides and blocks to be requested hospital as needed.
Pick up daily specimens from the frozen room, and dialysis specimens as needed.
Weekly clean the frozen section room and check expired reagents and stains
Perform weekly eyewash station checks (histology, morgue, and frozen room).
Perform Cryostat monthly maintenance, monitor and document daily required temperatures
Check and change stains and reagents as needed or at least monthly.
Reconcile outstanding pathological specimens and orders, daily
Back up Processer Phlebotomist as needed
Cheerfully greets customers as soon as they arrive.

What qualifications you will need:

One year of clinical experience preferred.
Medical terminology is desirable.

HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

As a full-service, 420+ bed acute care hospital, HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood has provided the northeast Houston community with high-quality, cost-effective healthcare for over 25 years. We are dedicated to providing comprehensive, quality care, close to home. Our Women’s Center offers high-risk OB care, a Level III NICU, and pediatric services. We have an advanced Brain & Spine Center, which includes a DNV Comprehensive Stroke Center and the Sleep Center of Excellence. Our Orthopedic Center offers total joint replacement surgery using advanced technology. Other services include innovative and customized cardiovascular services, including open heart and vascular surgery and state-of-the-art imaging and endoscopy services for more accurate diagnosis and treatment plans. We are also a Certified Level I Stroke Center and an Accredited Chest Pain Center. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Laboratory Assistant opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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