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Health Partner/Team Assistant - Piedmont Health Partners
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What they do
A Mental Health Assistant provides basic care and assistance with daily activities to patients with mental illnesses or cognitive disabilities. Helps patients dress and eat, monitors patients' well-being, and restrains patients if they become physically violent. Works in hospitals or mental health care facilities.
$34,938 / year median in Indiana
+6% projected growth
Job Description
Piedmont Health Partners is a local Clinically Integrated Network owned by AnMed Health and comprised of employed and independent health care providers. The role of the Team assistant establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with Health Partner teammates, physicians, other health care providers, patients and their families, to achieve desired patient outcomes throughout the continuum of care. The goal is to help PHP achieve the "Quadruple Aim" of lowering health care costs, improving patient satisfaction, increasing quality of care and enhancing the lives of healthcare providers in the network. The Team Assistant is the first responder to PHP helpline calls. The Team Assistant is responsible for providing support with clerical needs, scheduling and administrative support necessary to assure delivery of clinical care for the patient and staff of a given interdisciplinary group, coordination of the paper flow from the teams in the group, data entry of documentation and communication with patients, physicians, and staff.