This position is Full-time, benefit eligible, some weekends and holidays are required.

Medical Lab Technician

Job Description: The MLT assists the laboratory manager, performs all in-house specimen testing and daily laboratory functions.  The MLT also performs phlebotomy, instrument maintenance, urinalysis testing, chemistry, hematology, microbiology and immunoassay testing.  Maintains a quality control program appropriate for testing performed in the lab.  Updating, initiating and implementing new laboratory policies and procedures.  Documents Quality Assurance, resolves technical problems and takes remedial actions whenever test systems deviate from the laboratory’s established performed specifications, and reviews all QC and maintenance logs.  The MLT ensures compliance with all CLIA and federal guidelines.

Requirements: Biology degree. Graduate of an accredited program for Medical Laboratory Technician.  A qualified applicant should possess strong technical skills, urology experience, and excellent ability to organize and work efficiently.  An applicant should also possess the ability to work independently and with others in a fast paced environment, communication skills, a willingness to work as a team and learn new things.

Free parking is provided along with an excellent work environment.  EEO employer.

You may submit your resume and/or application to Metro-Urology via email, mail or by using our online application form below.

By email: humanresources@metro-urology.com

By mail: Metro-Urology
Attn: Human Resources
6025 Lake Road Suite 100
Woodbury, MN  55125

Application
Online application

Both Positions are Full-time and Benefit Eligible

The Surgery Scheduler is responsible for the efficient scheduling of the patient and for the physician.  Responsible for entering all demographic information including checking patients insurance for pre-certifications, prior authorization and referrals.  The Surgery Scheduling serves as a liaison between hospitals, surgery centers and Metro Urology.  Responsibility for providing patients with all necessary information in regards to their procedure.  Including, but not limited to special diet or prep instructions, general insurance information, arrival times, dates, locations, etc.  Responsible for documenting scheduled surgeries in NextGen® under chart notes, including person and date who individual spoke to at the hospital or surgery center.  Also including time, date, prep and any special instructions to be given; and including if a representative has been notified of equipment needed for surgery or procedure.  Responsible for rescheduling and canceling surgery and post-op appointments in a way which minimizes any inconveniences to the patient, including notification to the correct hospital or surgery center.  Free parking, competitive salary and excellent benefits offered.  EEO employeer.

Requirements:  Knowledge of NextGen® Medical Practice Management System and Microsoft office Suite is preferred.  2+ years of experience in customer service, scheduling, or related field.
Medical office experience or medical training program.  Must have demonstrated computer skills, and positive communication skills.  An applicant should also possess the ability to work independently and with others.  This position is in a fast paced environment; therefore, good communication skills are a must.

Application/Resume

You may submit your resume and/or application to Metro Urology via email, mail or by using our online application form below.
By email: humanresources@metro-urology.com

By mail: Metro Urology
Attn:  Human Resources
6025 Lake Road Suite 100
Woodbury, MN  55125

Application
online application

The Appointment Scheduler is responsible for scheduling office appointments, procedures as well as radiology testing.  This includes getting the necessary referrals, prior authorizations from insurance or communicating to the patient that a referral or prior authorization is necessary when appropriate.  Mail appointment packets, maps and preps for required appointments.  This also includes registration of new patients to include their current demographic and instructing the patient on relevant clinic financial and referral policies.  Free parking, competitive salary and excellent benefits offered.  EEO employer.

Requirements:  Knowledge of NextGen® Medical Practice Management System and Microsoft Office Suite is preferred.  2+ years of experience in customer service, scheduling or related field.
Medical office experience or medical training program.  Must have demonstrated computer skills, and positive communication skills.  An applicant should also possess the ability to work independently and with others.  This position is in a fast paced environment; therefore, good communication skills are a must.

Application/Resume
You may submit your resume and/or application to Metro Urology via Email, mail or by using our Online Application Form below.
By Email humanresources@metro-urology.com

By Mail: Metro Urology
Attn:  Human Resources
6025 Lake Road Suite 100
Woodbury, MN  55125

Application
Online Application Form

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who made the annual Top Doctors for Women list for Minnesota Monthly.

A survey was sent to nearly 10,000 doctors and medical professionals in the Twin Cities and Olmstead County, asking them to nominate the best doctors for women in nearly 40 specialties.  To be a Top Doctor for Women, physicians must be nominated by their peers.

This is a noteworthy accomplishment and we want to take a moment and congratulate Dr. Sutherland on this prestigious recognition.

A Brief History of the Award:

Christina Manthos was an extraordinary young urologist whose life and career were sadly curtailed by breast cancer. As a means of perpetuating the flame of her inspiration and honoring her memory, SWIU established an annual award to recognize those men or women who demonstrate extraordinary mentoring skills in supporting the career of a female urologist. SWIU believes that a mentor is an important element in the life of each professional woman and wants to encourage and reward those who set a good example.

Christina Lean Manthos earned her medical degree from USUHS in 1990, receiving the Army Surgeon General’s Award and the Janet M. Glasgow award from the American Medical Women’s Association. After a Surgical internship at Fitzsimmons AMC, where she won Outstanding Intern of the Year, she was sent to Korea to serve as clinic commander. Subsequently, she returned to Fitzsimmons AMC, where she completed her urology residency in 1996. She then served with distinction as the assistant chief of the urology service at the USAF Academy and Fort Carson until she lost her battle with breast cancer in 1999. Christina will be fondly remembered as a gifted urologic surgeon, dedicated officer and inspiring mentor.

Metro Urology thanks Dr. Siegel for his years of mentoring.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Not too many people want to talk about it, but it’s a problem that impacts about 30 million Americans. Overactive bladder disrupts lives and can make people prisoners in their own homes.

Drugs can help, but doctors say up to 80 percent of people quit taking them because of side effects or because they don’t work.
So, could a little zap to the ankle be a drug-free solution for overactive bladder?

For 20 years, Linda Krogstad tried to work in her garden, but Mother Nature always interrupted – sometimes up to 20 times per day.
“And I’d have no control over it,” said Krogstad. “I’ve tried everything.”

Her overactive bladder was holding her hostage.

“Pretty much just stayed around the house,” said Krogstad.

Drugs, physical therapy and surgery didn’t work, so she tried something new called percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation, also known as PTNS.

“We’re trying to target the nerve that’s coming down the leg, called the tibial nerve,” described Dr. Suzette E. Sutherland, a urologist with the Centers for Continence Care and Female Urology in Minnesota.

A small needle will be placed near the ankle and attach a device that sends electrical pulses up the leg to the sacral plexus, a major nerve superhighway in the pelvis that controls the bladder.

“It sort of changes the way the nerves are perceiving what’s going on in the pelvic area just to try to get all that messaging and information to calm down,” explained Sutherland.

Patients sit while the device stimulates the nerve for 30 minutes, two to four times a month for three months. The treatment lasts for about a month, and then the routine is repeated.

Recent studies found PTNS worked as well as meds without side effects with 55 percent of patients in one trial reporting significant improvement.

The problem is cost, because it’s not always covered by insurance, and it can run $456 a session with an average of 12 treatments. ”I liked that I can go in every two weeks, and I didn’t have to have anything put into my body,” said Krogstad, who says now she can set her own schedule.

“It’s just nice to be able to be outside and not have to run to the bathroom all the time,” she said.

PTNS is FDA approved to treat symptoms of overactive bladder. Another study published in the Journal of Urology found the therapeutic effect of PTNS is not the result of a placebo effect and that stimulation of the nerve resulted in true improvement.

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