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Martina M Salinas

Buffalo

Summary

Resourceful Medical Secretary maintains smooth office operations and patient flows. Detail-oriented approach to organizing files, scheduling appointments and assisting patients. Organized individual brings background in medical office settings handling patient needs.

Well-organized Medical Secretary with demonstrated knowledge of healthcare procedures and administrative operations. Versed in insurance forms, charts and other business correspondence. Detailed understanding of complex office and database systems for maintaining secure patient information.

Experienced Medical Secretary with background in managing medical office operations, coordinating patient appointments and supporting clinical staff. Strengths include strong command of medical terminology, knowledge of healthcare systems, and proficiency in electronic health records management. Previous roles have demonstrated ability to streamline administrative processes, improve patient communication, and contribute to efficient healthcare delivery.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Medical Secretary/Intake Coordinator

WNY BloodCare
Buffalo
06.2024 - Current
  • Managed patient scheduling and appointment confirmations efficiently.
  • Assisted with data entry and record management tasks daily.
  • Coordinated communication between medical staff and patients promptly.

Coordinate New Referral

Office management

Ordering office supplies

  • Managed office operations and administrative functions for a high-traffic environment.
  • Oversaw office supply inventory, ensuring availability of essential materials.
  • Answered phone calls, responded to emails, routed mail and coordinated courier services.
  • Managed office inventory and placed new supply orders.
  • Managed front desk operations including greeting visitors, answering questions or directing them to appropriate personnel.

Referral Intake Specialist

ConnectLife
Williamsville
08.2022 - 07.2023
  • Responsible for all incoming calls to the Donor Referral Center. Collecting all pertinent information over the phone doe initial donation referral and inputting accurate data into the internal electronic medical records. Paging on-call organ coordinators.

Patient Access Representative

Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo
10.2015 - 11.2021
  • Company Overview: Buffalo, NY
  • Greet and welcome patients to registration department, obtain required accurate demographic and referring physician information. Update all cases future and past with necessary demo information.
  • Utilize various online resources to confirm insurance information and enter correct insurance codes and policy information in the database.
  • Obtain patient signatures on necessary consents and forms and scan into SRM.
  • Notify Financial Counselors if a patient is identified to have financial questions.
  • Follow established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance programs.
  • Provide excellent customer service to all inquiries that present in Registration and Admission area that you are currently working in. Accurately prepares next day paperwork for night shift when required to do so.
  • Participates in the orientation of new staff in registration and admission.
  • Participates when needed in departmental Quality Improvement and Process Improvement projects and assists the SPAR, Manager and Senior Director as needed.
  • Buffalo, NY

Manager

Althea’s 2nd Time around Boutique Consignment
Buffalo
10.2012 - 07.2016
  • Company Overview: Buffalo, NY
  • Supervise the complete operation of the day to day business: customer service, consignment management buying and selling merchandise.
  • Operations work in collaboration with the owner, review sales, expenses and payroll.
  • Plan and execute in store/out store events and promotions.
  • Hire, train and manage sales associates.
  • Customer service: ensure the satisfaction of customers and consignors. Use social media to engage clients.
  • Consignment management: maintain positive relationships with consignor: educate the consignor about the store’s consignment policies.
  • Buffalo, NY

Clinical Support Administrator

Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo
03.2012 - 10.2015
  • Company Overview: Buffalo, NY
  • Performs administrative, clerical, and general office duties; supporting faculty members and Department Administrator. Maintains department records, distributes mail, prepares purchase requisitions, performs telephone reception, welcomes and directs on-site visitors; distributes photocopies, faxes, and scans; interacts other internal departments, participates in group work team activities in the office; performs these duties in a considerably complex and confidential environment requiring little or no supervision. Works closely with faculty and managers to assure timely and accurate support documents; performs very high level of organization, excellent written and verbal communication skills, consistently high level of attention to detail are essential; successful experience in a fast-paced multi-tasking environment; additional assignments will involve assisting the nurses, doctors and mid-levels.
  • Buffalo, NY

Senior Medical Representative

Children’s Physician Network
Minnetonka
06.2008 - 01.2012
  • Company Overview: Minnetonka, MN
  • Responsible for maintaining two software applications: E-Centaurus- a telephone triage software application that provides a telephone triage database of evidence based clinical guidelines, a physician referral database and an electronic medical record of all telephone call. Infinity – an answering service telecommunication application that facilitates calls from health care providers, facilities and families/caregivers/patients. This software stores all call transactions.
  • Responsible for directory assistance, emergent consults, admits, transfers.
  • Responsible for working with Physicians, referring Physicians, CTCC, NICU, PICU and ED to get them to the right place for emergent consults, admits and transfers.
  • Responsible for referring physicians to specific service request even if Children’s does not offer the service.
  • Responsible for non-urgent consults-connect referring physician to specific request.
  • Minnetonka, MN

Senior Intake Representative

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PHYSICIANS
Minneapolis
02.2005 - 06.2008
  • Company Overview: Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Responsible for coaching and training new representatives.
  • Provide guidance and mentoring to lower level representatives.
  • Responsible for retrieving patient records and maintaining patient confidentiality.
  • Maintain customer service/quality score standards as well as performance measures.
  • Responsible for scheduling patient appointments efficiently and accurately for 18 clinics and subspecialties.
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota

Education

Trained Medication Administrator -

St. Paul Technical

Certified nurses Assistant -

Erie 1 B.O.C.E.S
Buffalo, NY

Skills

  • Customer service skills
  • Excellent organization
  • Time management
  • Problem-solving
  • Medical terminology
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Excel
  • ITransplant
  • Donor Life New England Registry
  • New York State Donor Life Registry
  • Management Studio
  • Teams
  • Outlook
  • ADP
  • Sharepoint
  • Donor Reference
  • Cerner
  • HealthENet
  • Connex
  • E-paces
  • Electronic health records
  • Patient confidentiality
  • Data entry accuracy
  • Appointment scheduling
  • Insurance verification
  • Customer service
  • Office inventory management
  • Attention to detail
  • Appointment coordination
  • HIPAA compliance
  • HIPAA
  • Patient appointment coordination
  • Patient confidentiality adherence
  • Patient check-in
  • Phone reception
  • Strong organizational skills
  • Adaptable to change
  • Medical office management
  • Detail-oriented approach
  • Telephone customer support
  • Critical thinking
  • EMR updating
  • Payment collection
  • Office reception
  • Patient scheduling
  • Inventory management
  • Professional telephone etiquette
  • Patient scheduling proficiency
  • Epic systems
  • Effective communication
  • Flexible schedule
  • Analytical thinking
  • Detail-oriented
  • Supply ordering
  • Multitasking capacity
  • Administrative support
  • Analytical skills

Timeline

Medical Secretary/Intake Coordinator

WNY BloodCare
06.2024 - Current

Referral Intake Specialist

ConnectLife
08.2022 - 07.2023

Patient Access Representative

Roswell Park Cancer Institute
10.2015 - 11.2021

Manager

Althea’s 2nd Time around Boutique Consignment
10.2012 - 07.2016

Clinical Support Administrator

Roswell Park Cancer Institute
03.2012 - 10.2015

Senior Medical Representative

Children’s Physician Network
06.2008 - 01.2012

Senior Intake Representative

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PHYSICIANS
02.2005 - 06.2008

Trained Medication Administrator -

St. Paul Technical

Certified nurses Assistant -

Erie 1 B.O.C.E.S
Martina M Salinas