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Re: Trend of hospitals starting to hire MTs again: - s/msg

Posted: Mar 16, 2011

Another poster below mentioned that her hospital hired its own MTs, stopped outsourcing work. It seems like most of these jobs are in-house, but I was happy to read that her hospital had all its MTs working at home. How I wish I could find a job like that! The few hospitals in my part of the state that do hire on-site MTs are too far away to make commuting an option, especially with the rising gas prices.

I've been looking at hospital employee MT jobs nationwide, but am disheartened to see that most still want their employees to be fairly local. Of course I can understand their reasons for doing that, but it's making it just that much harder for me to find a *real* job again, and ditch this MTSO madness. Do most of you who work from home directly for hospitals find that to be the case, or are some hospitals hiring workers who live out of state?

I sometimes see ads for MTs at the Mayo Clinic, for example. I would just LOVE to work for them!! Unfortunately, your training, which lasts several months, is on-site in Minnesota. My guess would be that even if I were willing and able to move to MN for 6 months, I still wouldn't be hired because I live across the country.

The majority of the hospital MT ads I read don't clarify whether the job is remote or on-site. I've just been assuming that those are on-site jobs. Do you think it's worth it to apply to them anyway, just in case? Have any of you ever applied for a hospital job that you knew was on-site, telling them that you could only work remotely, and had them decide to set you up as a remote MT?

employee status - happyMT

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I currently work for a hospital and all MT's are employees.... we hire in-state only.... and everyone has option of access at home or in-house.... MT supervisors are the only ones required to maintain an in-house office within the facility and have to live in the same city. Makes taxes easier for HR and keeps jobs here and as a result has a very low turn over of transcription positions, which improves quality and TAT. Our doctors are very vocal about keeping the transcription in-state.

Please tell me your hospital is in CA! :) - Please-please-please-please!

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My experience (sm) - Been there done that

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I work at home for a hospital 2-1/2 hours away from me. They require that you do live in the same state. We do have a fair number of meetings so even if they allowed out of state employees, it could get to be cumbersome driving or flying in for meetings.

If I were you I would go ahead and apply for any hospital jobs you find. They will be quick to tell you if you have to live close or not. However, I doubt they will open up a remote position for you if all their staff works in house. Think about it: That just would not be fair to the people who work in house who might have been wanting to work from home for some time.

I'm hoping that some all-inhouse hospitals are about - to consider sending all/some MTs home.

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Maybe they were starting to think about it, and need a 'guinea pig' that's already set up and working at home to try it on.

Well... - MT

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I can't be very helpful, but I do want to say that I doubt the Mayo clinic would have you come and train for all that time unless you were already hired by them. Most places don't "train" until you're hired, so don't discount that as an option. I'm going to guess there's online testing, passing of the test, a job offer, an acceptance on your part, THEN the training.

I may be wrong, so I would be with you in that I would not step one foot out the door for any in-house training unless I had an offer.

You're right. I worded my post wrong. You do - have to be hired before training. n/m

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employee status - happyMT

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sorry, not in Cali.... The best advice I have for you is make changes in your local areas.... our hospital almost outsourced several years back when new management came in and thought outsourcing was cost effective....I was fairly new, but already knew that if the physicians knew about this possibility and had a choice they would want local.... I approached all the speciality groups, Radiologists, Cardiology, Oncology ect and explained to them the benefits of in-house local transcription.... they were very eager to listen.... and they are very effective squeaky wheels! They all signed refusal to use outsourced transcription and our jobs were saved.... if your local Docs currently outsource, there will be plenty of unhappy customers.... start approaching them and before you know it, your local hospitals will be considering local employees..... it's all on how you sell it, the big low paying companies figured that out years ago.... AND MOST IMPORTANTLY DONT SELL OUT ON YOUR WAGE WHEN OFFERED A POSITION, TELL THEM WHAT YOU ARE WORTH! No one in our transcription group works for less than what they should and even the part-timers have benefits.... stick to your guns and be confident, it works!

The thing is, most hospitals - ticchick

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that have MTs who work from home will still expect you to work in-house for at least the first 6 months, and then there may or may not be a waiting list of folks who want to work from home. It's still great getting paid by the hour though, and you get great benefits. I actually moved 6 hours away from where I used to live to take a job in a hospital, as the ones in my area were not hiring. I have been here 6 months now and have not regretted it for a moment. I will eventually get to work from home if I want, it will be about a year though.

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