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$15,000 sign on bonus for Transfusion Service Coordinator


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I first posted this position in October 2020.  The position is still open and there is now a $15,000 sign on bonus. 

Go to https://www.nih.org/careers/

This site states that the sign on bonus is $10,000 but my lab manager assures me that the bonus has been increased to $15,000.  You can phone the hospital at 760-873-5811 and ask to speak with Human Resources or with the Lab Manager to confirm.

Bishop California, population  7,000, is located on the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range near the Nevada border.  We are 200 miles south of Reno, 300 miles northeast of LA.  We are a vacation destination/retirement community.  In the Sierra to the west, and the White Mountains to the east, there is hiking, backpacking, fishing, camping, hunting, skiing, biking, rock climbing, bird watching and more.   In town there’s a golf course and a bowling alley, two excellent bakeries, several coffee shops, numerous restaurants, a really great hamburger joint and several yoga studios. 

The hospital is small.  We have 3 orthopedic surgeons, 2 general surgeons, 3 OB/GYN doctors, a few specialists and numerous ED doctors, hospitalists and generalists.  We transfer critical patients to larger health facilities with higher levels of care. 

In the transfusion service, our inventory includes 10 units O positive, 6 units A positive, 2 units A negative, 2 units B positive, 8 units O negative and 10 units frozen plasma.  Our blood supplier is Vitalant in Reno. Monday through Saturday a courier delivers and returns blood products.  On weekends and outside of courier hours we make other arrangement with the California Highway Patrol or a hospital courier.  (We seldom need to make such arrangements). 

We use Ortho MTS gel (manual) and tube.  We perform antibody screens with a 3 cell screening panel.  We send out positive antibody screens (maybe one every one-two months).  We perform 30-45 type and screens a month.  We transfuse monthly 10-40 pRBCs, 0-4 frozen plasmas, and 0-1 platelets.

In our lab we have 10 lab techs (generalists), 4 lab assistants, 5 phlebotomists.  We are a happy, friendly group. 

If you would like to live in a quiet town with amazing scenery and great recreational opportunities, and if you would like to run a small transfusion service in a lab with great people, this job is for you!

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On 2/1/2021 at 7:31 PM, Mabel Adams said:

Wow! We are having trouble getting enough applicants to our lab jobs.  Half of our Micro department decided to retire this year.  Other lab scientists are moving to be closer to family.  Pandemic effects maybe?

I think yes, in several way.  I've heard from placement agencies that people are afraid to move jobs fearing the new lab might not have enough work and they'll get laid off.  Some of the Covid testing and research companies are scooping up med techs and paying a lot more than the hospitals can.  Fewer schools and graduates.

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