Sonographer

Overview

St. Luke’s Health-Memorial paves the way for quality innovative health care in East Texas and provides more than a quarter of a million patient services each year. With hospitals in Lufkin Livingston and San Augustine St. Luke’s Health-Memorial provides millions of dollars in charity care and community support each year.

Responsibilities

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

1. Utilizes innovative customer service techniques to provide a positive patient care experience for the patient and their family.

2. Acts professionally in all dealings with internal and external customers to promote a working environment that focuses on the patient experience and not operational rivalries or roadblocks to care.

3. Perform all duties of a registered ultrasonographer. Produces quality ultrasound images to support patient care activities.

4. Assess patient's condition/information and determine the appropriateness of procedures to be performed as required by the Intersociety Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories and to establish medical necessity as mandated by HCFA.

5. Evaluate patients for the presence or absence, severity and location of peripheral vascular disease by selecting the most effective procedure(s) from an array of anatomic, hemodynamic and physiologic procedures including duplex scanning, plethysmography, doppler ultrasound, pressure measurements and active or passive hyperemic challenge.

6. Record test results and report the results to the physician upon completion of testing. Document and prepare patient records for review and interpretation by physician, including the selection, recording, cross-referencing of significant or representative studies. Prepare a complete and accurate written report for subsequent review and signature of the medical director or higher designee.

7. May rotate shifts or be in an “on call” status as needed or directed by the organization.

8. Performs other duties as assigned to meet the needs of the organization.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience

Education: Graduate of a formal Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program, Vascular Imaging, or Cardiovascular Technology Program that is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs

Experience: 1 year sonography experience (including training)

ARDMS (RVT) or ARRT (VS)

Pay Range

$26.38 - $38.26 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.