Maria Orta

• Worked with patients since July 2021 in hospital setting at Griffin Hospital .As a CHW, I have also done home visits in order to visit patients if patients are home bound .I have focused on assisting patients with social determinants of health and connecting them to agencies in their area

Spoke to up to 15-20 patients per day

• Experience with Athena and Epic
• Experience notifying providers about the status of social determinants of health referrals.
• Created report every morning in order to assign Nurse Navigators patients that were attributed to us and had been discharged from Griffin Hospital and other hospitals in the U.S
• Participated in ongoing professional development opportunities to stay current on best practices in community health work, ensuring the delivery of quality services to clients.
• Built trust within diverse communities through cultural competency training, empathetic communication skills, and active listening techniques.
• Connected families with necessary social services, alleviating barriers to healthcare access and improving quality of life.

• Responsible for registering patients/clients
• Making photo copies of I.D.'s and insurance cards
• Making appointments for future appointments
• Specialist using "VAMS"
• It is a vaccine appointment scheduling system that your health department, employer, or provider may be using to manage vaccine appointments.
• Specialist in using "Meditech".
• Bilingual specialist
• Translating documents from english to spanish and vice versa.
• Answering phone calls and making phone calls

• Assist with grooming and transferring.helping my clients with housekeeping and laundry
• Assist with medication reminder
• Assist with meal prep and daily activities
• I would help transfer from bed to wheelchair, to wheelchair to bed
• I am familiar with the Hoyer lift.

• Meal prep,daily exercise and activities like bingo and taking out to the park
• Took patients for errands made letters for them
• Called for appointments and took them for appointments
• Groomed them, fed them, Hoyer lift.

• Had one to one conversations with peers and other teens about the reproductive system, healthy relationships, STDs, and preventing pregnancy.