Home Health Aide (HHA)
Florida Career Training Center’s Medical Coder/Biller Certificate program prepares a student for occupations related to employment as a home attendant, or home health aide or to provide supplemental training for persons previously or currently employed in these occupations. The content includes, but is not limited to, instruction in those supportive services that are required to provide and maintain bodily and emotional comfort and to assist the patient toward independent living in a safe environment, as stated in Rules of the Department of Health Minimum Standards for Home Health Agencies. Additional content areas to be included are: legal and ethical responsibilities; communication skills; basic human needs; a safe, clean, and healthy home environment; the developmental process; nutritional needs; emergency care; personal care; special care and rehabilitation needs of the client; household management; record keeping; pet facilitated therapy; and employability skills.
The content includes, but is not limited to, instruction in those supportive services that are required to provide and maintain bodily and emotional comfort and to assist the patient toward independent living in a safe environment, as stated in Rules of the Department of Health Minimum Standards for Home Health Agencies. Additional content areas to be included are: legal and ethical responsibilities; communication skills; basic human needs; a safe, clean, and healthy home environment; the developmental process; nutritional needs; emergency care; personal care; special care and rehabilitation needs of the client; household management; record keeping; pet facilitated therapy; and employability skills.
Patient Care Assistant (PCA)
This program is designed to prepare students for employment as cross-trained nursing assistants. All others, Patient Care Assistants, Nursing Aides, and Orderlies, or Home Health Aides. This program offers a broad foundation of knowledge and skills, expanding the traditional role of the nursing assistant, for both acute and long-term care settings.
The content includes, broad, transferable skills and stresses understanding and demonstration of the following elements of the healthcare industry; planning, management, finance, technical and production skills, underlying principles of technology, labor issues, community issues, and health, safety, and environmental issues but is not limited to, instruction in those suppor¬t services that are required to provide and maintain bodily and emotional comfort and to assist the patient toward independent living in a safe environment, as stated in Rules of the Department of Health Minimum Standards for Home Health Agencies. Additional content areas to be included are legal and ethical responsibilities; communication skills; basic human needs; a safe, clean, and healthy home environment; the developmental process; nutritional needs; emergency care; personal care; special care and rehabilitation needs of the client; household management; record keeping; pet facilitated therapy; and employability skills.
Medical Assisting
This program is developed into eight (8) comprehensive courses and a required field experience tour to prepare students for employment as a Medical Assistant. This program offers a sequence of courses to provide technical skill proficiency and includes competency-based applied learning in the areas of Medical Office Procedures, Phlebotomy for Medical Assisting, EKG Aide, Clinical Assisting, Pharmacology for Medical Assisting, Laboratory Procedures, Administrative Office Procedures, and Field Experience. Medical assistants in Florida are not required to possess a certification, registration or medical assisting license to work as a medical assistant.
Phlebotomy
The Phlebotomy faculty at Florida Career Training Center is committed to providing a high-quality educational program to all students. Florida Career Training Center will prepare graduates who can provide culturally sensitive and competent care within a framework of scientific and professional accountability, adopt measures that ensure safe practice, and promote healthy habits that contribute to total wellness.
The Phlebotomy program is developed into nine (9) comprehensive courses: Florida Career Training Center medical assistant program curriculum content includes but is not limited to the healthcare delivery system, legal and ethical responsibilities, understanding of and applying wellness and disease concepts, infection control procedures, knowledge of blood-borne diseases, including HIV/AIDS, anatomic structure and function of body systems, identify collection reagents supplies, equipment and interfering chemical substances, infection control following standard precautions, procedures of transporting, accessioning and processing specimens, quality assurance, and safety.
Medical Billing/Coding
Florida Career Training Center’s Medical Coder/Biller Certificate program prepares a student for occupations related to both medical coding and medical billing. Medical coders and billers are utilized in all medical settings. A medical coder may work in a doctor’s office, an outsourcing facility, a hospital, or from home as an independent contractor. Medical billers correspond with insurance companies for payment for services rendered; they can work from a variety of locations including doctors’ offices, outsourced facilities, and hospitals.
The Medical Coder/Biller combined program offers the unique opportunity to learn two healthcare fields, thus increasing your value in the competitive healthcare job market. This program assists students in acquiring the necessary medical knowledge to demonstrate competence in medical coding and billing. A medical coder identifies and assigns numerical codes to patient procedures and diagnoses by abstracting information from the patient record and utilizing required coding systems. The information is then submitted for financial reimbursement to health insurance companies and/or government agencies. A medical biller is responsible for reviewing information that will be sent to various insurers, distributing billing information to the appropriate parties, and completing the billing process. The objective of the Medical Coder/Biller program is to prepare individuals for entry-level positions in hospitals, physicians’ offices, insurance companies, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), mental health facilities, and coder/biller organizations in the coding and billing fields.
Although an externship is not required for program completion or employment, the 250 lab hours will be realized utilizing the 3M™ Coding and Reimbursement System Plus software. The 3M Coding and Reimbursement System Plus (CRS+) is a sophisticated yet easy-to-use suite of tools that supports coders with powerful coding logic, giving them the confidence of knowing their judgments are backed by 3M experts. Skills proficiencies are achieved by working with 3M-encoding and 3M CRS+ software programs, which are the types of electronic “codebooks” that use a myriad of terminology to choose appropriate codes and achieve a more accurate medical coding and improvise mix. This also facilitates remote coding situations. Report on key metrics with an easy-to-use reporting tool with drill-down capabilities, offering standard and customized reporting. Certification is NOT needed for employment. Acceptable background checks MUST be obtained to work in the medical field. Prepares students to take the Certified Coding Specialist exam, CCSP and the Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) exam.