Several job openings at BCMH

PARAMEDIC
Schedule: FULL TIME; usually 24 hour shifts
Qualifications: Missouri licensed Paramedic or EMT
Department: AMBULANCE

PATIENT ACCESS SUPERVISOR
Schedule: Full time; usually 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. M-F; Non-Exempt
Qualifications: High School degree required; healthcare related undergraduate degree desirable. Min one year patient access experience required. Excellent communication skills / interpersonal relation skills. Prefer previous supervisory experience. Responsible for supervising patient access staff members; maintain staffing schedule and coordinate coverage for OP admissions, OP specialty clinic and Emergency Department patient registration. Ensure staff compliance with departmental policies and procedures. Help guide and maintain the registration process. Work or assign staff to work patient access ques to ensure the ques are consistently worked in a timely manner. Assist leadership with report reconciliation, QA process and other duties as assigned.
Department: PATIENT ACCESS


PATIENT ACCOUNTS SPECIALIST
Schedule: Full time; usually M-F, 0800-1630
Qualifications: Must have a minimum of two years experience in medical billing with full understanding of medical and insurance terminology. Demonstrates exceptional customer service with the ability to collect, create and research complex or diverse information. To plan, organize and exercise good judgment.
Department: PATIENT ACCESS

PHLEBOTOMIST
Schedule: PRN as needed
Qualifications: Experience preferred; will train qualified individual; excellent communication/interpersonal skills
Department: LABORATORY

REGISTRATION CLERK – EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Schedule: FULL TIME; usually 8:30 p.m. to 5 a.m./9 shifts per pay period; every other weekend
Qualifications: Excellent computer skills; attention to detail; interpersonal relations and customer service skills; must be able to work in fast-paced, stressful environment. Able to register patients presenting to the ED; dispatch ambulances; work closely with insurance web sites to ensure patients have active insurance coverage; multi-task. Previous registration and insurance background preferred.
Department: PATIENT ACCESS

RESPIRATORY THERAPIST (CRT or RRT)
Schedule: PRN as needed
Qualifications: Current Certification or Registry as respiratory therapist
Department: RESPIRATORY CARE

Obituary - Linda Sue Laughlin

Linda Sue Laughlin, 60, Harrisonville, MO, passed away Friday, January 17, 2020 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, NE. 

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, January 24, 2020 at the First Baptist Church in Archie, MO with burial in Crescent Hill Cemetery, Adrian, MO. 

Visitation will be held from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Thursday, January 23, at the Atkinson Funeral Home in Harrisonville. Memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society.

(A complete obituary will be posted when information is available).

Attention Hume voters

Voters who vote at the Hume Precinct: The polling location will be moved from the Hume Community Center to the Hume Legion Hall at 9355 SW lst Street in Hume.

Marlene Wainscott
Bates County Clerk

Catch and release only works with fishing...

From the Bates County Sheriff's Office

Now is the time to began reminding the Governor and Missouri Law makers who they work for, and demand safer communities.

Sheriffs across the state have consistently argued that the “catch and release” program has not and does not work. Law Enforcement have continued to prove time and time again that these offenders are reoffending again and again while out on parole. We’ve asked that Missouri pass a Truth in Sentencing so that the Missouri Citizens know the truth about how much of a sentence an inmate actually does in prison. The Department of Corrections owes Missouri Counties Millions of Dollars for housing and have tried to figure ways to get out of paying. They have already closed one prison and shifted the responsibility of housing convicted inmates to the Sheriffs, while many agencies struggle to pay Deputies a living wage and jailers even less.
Several years ago law makers re-structured the criminal code and added a new felony level, a class F felony. The crimes listed in this classification used to be a class D Felony and time would be served in the prison system for violators. Now, crimes that were a class D felony is a class F felony and time has to be served in the county jail. All done without the approval of Missouri Citizens.

Most Missouri county Jails were already at or over capacity with inmates and can’t afford to pick up the work of the Department of Corrections. Most Sheriffs Offices struggle to financially run the jail, service the courts and offer police services to rural residence in their county. Most Sheriffs have seen their budgets cut year after year but yet the state agencies seemed increases each and every year and reduce their obligation the the Citizens of Missouri.

Reducing the number of beds in the prison system DOES NOT reduce crime and it ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT MAKE OUR COMMUNITIES SAFER. It DOES shift the financial burden onto the counties of which majority of the counties are 3rd and 4th class counties who struggle to meet the needs of their citizens on the very limited tax base.

Citizens need to know, what are the plans for offenders who are sentenced to DOC for crimes committed in our community?

Who wins/loses when the state is more worried about being able to say they have reduced jail populations without reducing crime rates?

When are the citizens going to get truth in sentencing?

Where does the funding come from for our Sheriffs to perform the extra duties/inmates when this things happen?

When are we returning the prison system back to hold offenders accountable by being a punishment system not a rehabilitation system?

Is the funding saved from closing wings and not filling employment positions, going to fix our broken mental health system so that we aren’t filling jails with people who legitimately need mental health help? (By the way, talking justice reform, putting mental health patients in jail is what we used to do in the 1800s and early 1900s. It was and still is extremely in-humane)

When are we going to quit believing that repeat offenders just need a hug and everything is going to be ok?

Sheriff Anderson

4-Hers attend shooting safety class

Last Saturday was the Bates County 4-H Shooting Sports Safety training at the Adrian Optimist Building. Trainers included Brenda Doody, shooting sports coordinator; Ethan Rowe, Lance Hale, Jay Walley and Steven Doody, Shotgun; David Randalls and Ross Dugan, .22 Rifle; and Mark and Carla Armentrout, Archery. The 4-Hers learned a lot about using firearms safely. In the afternoon, they had the opportunity to design straw rockets. It is great to see our youth involved in this project. #InspireKidstodo#BatesCo4H#MUWCR

And the Tractor Of The Year is...

FORD. Yes the featured manufacturer for the Western Missouri Antique Tractor and Machinery Association annual show will be Ford, and you’re sure to see most every model on June 26th, 27th and 28th at Frontier Village in Adrian.

More details coming soon.

Butler Student of the Month

Mackenzie Davis has been selected as January's Student of the Month at Butler High School. Congrats!

Weigh in set for March 8th

Bates County Fair FFA and 4H Steer/Market Heifer weigh-in will be:

 

Date: Sunday March 8, 2020 

Time: 1 pm-3 pm (daylight savings time begins this day)

Place: Mo-Kan facility across from sale barn (like last year)

 

Nose prints for State Fair  are Due in the State Fair office by March 15 (We will nose print at weigh-in.  You may turn them in to Robyn Eckhoff, Bates County YPA at weigh-in, or turn them in to your FFA adviser.)

If you have any questions, contact the Bates County Extension office at 660.679.4167 or Kyleigh Trickey.

#Committed2MOFamilies #ExtendMU #MO4H #BatesCo4H #MUWCR