Kari Cook is seeking employment in healthcare or business with over 20 years of experience in various roles such as receptionist, medical assistant, scheduler, and business office manager. She has a bachelor's degree in healthcare administration and master's degrees in healthcare administration and business administration. Her qualifications include clerical, administrative, and medical duties such as answering phones, maintaining medical records, authorizing tests and prescriptions, monitoring patients, and managing accounts.

1. Kari Cook
668 North Walnut Street
Van Wert, Ohio 45891
419-203-5244 ~ leighck@yahoo.com
OBJECTIVE: To seek full time employment in the Healthcare or Business field.
HIGHLIGHT OF QUALIFICATIONS
 Answer incoming calls, providing information, transferring calls or taking messages as necessary
and routing emergency calls appropriately.
 Perform clerical duties, such as typing, proofreading, accepting orders, scheduling appointments,
and sorting mail.
 Assist physicians and nurses in the operation of medical equipment or provision of patient care.
 Record patient’s medical history, vital statistics, or information such as test results in medical
records.
 Prepare treatment room for patient examinations, keeping the rooms neat and clean.
 Authorize drug refills and provide prescription information to pharmacies.
 Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, and physician instructions to patients.
 Daily duties of pacemaker clinics.
 Authorizing patient testing through insurance companies.
 Monitoring patients’ blood pressure and heart rate using electrocardiogram (EKG) equipment
during diagnostic or therapeutic procedures to notify the physician if something appears
abnormal.
 Verify attendance,hours worked, pay adjustments, and payroll.
 Scheduling of nursing staff and physicians.
 Assisting the Human Resources department with new hire packets,calling candidates to schedule
interviews and updating employee records as needed.
 Maintain an accurate petty cash drawer
 Manage Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
 Review invoices for accuracy
WORK HISTORY
Ridgeview Behavioral Hospital, Middle Point, OH Dec 2014-present
- Receptionist (Dec 2014 – Apr 2015)
- Nursing Department Scheduler (Apr 2015 – Jun 2015)
- Human Resource Assistant (Jun 2015 – July 2015)
- BusinessOffice Manager (July 2015 – present)
Lima Memorial Heart Institute (Medical Assistant) Van Wert,OH 2006-2013
Van Wert County Hospital (Monitor Technician) Van Wert,OH 1996-2006

2. EDUCATION
Crestview High School, Convoy, OH High School Diploma, June 1998
University of Northwestern Ohio, Lima, OH Associates Administrative Assisting, June 2000
University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ Bachelors of Healthcare Administration, Feb 2015
University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ MHA & MBA,Feb 2018
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST