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About Us: We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient-centered care. The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties; Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130-bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn's only children's hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides' clincal progams rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Boneand Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine. Overview:

Collects blood from donors; assists with donor selection and assumes responsibility for the safety and comfort of donors, assists in donor recruitment.

Responsibilities:
  • Assists in recruiting donors and operating a successful donor program including mobile drives
  • Performs Blood donor processing of whole blood donors including donor registration, selection , phlebotomy, labels blood units, quality control and maintenance, etc.
  • Performs donor registration and selection by obtaining information from prospective donors to complete medical history form in order to determine donor eligibility.
  • Phlebotomizes blood donors and patients; draws blood, pilot specimens, labels blood unit before and after drawing. Explains phlebotomy procedure to patient/ donor before beginning to help calm patient anxieties.
  • Performs general clerical functions.
  • Maintains records by filling out donor forms accurately (e.g., time of drawing, amount of blood drawn, donor reaction).
  • Checks equipment in the Donor Room and/or in Mobile Drive locations on a regular basis to assure that it is functioning properly; reports problems to supervisor.
  • Maintains confidentiality of all tests and procedures.
  • Collects equipment and other supplies for Blood Mobiles; assists in transportation and setting up of the site for Blood collection and assure transportation of collected units back to medical center.
  • Ensures medically aseptic technique and/or isolation precautions are maintained while performing job function.
  • Bring units to component room soon after phlebotomy (in house collections) for fractionation.
  • Patient care responsibilities are delivered with knowledge of patient growth and development and are appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
  • Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
Qualifications:

Education:

High school graduation or equivalency plus completion of an approved phlebotomy program or documentation of training and experience in phlebotomy.

Experience:

2+ years' experience in Blood Bank phlebotomy procedures preferred.

Skills:

Knowledge of processing blood donors required.

Proficiency in phlebotomy of donors required.

Good verbal/communication skills required.

Recruiting and marketing skills preferred.

Pay Range: USD $32.71 - USD $33.28 /Hr. Equal Employment Opportunity Employer: Maimonides Medical Center (MMC) is an equal opportunity employer.
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