Essential functions encompass the required tasks, duties, and responsibilities performed as part of the job and the reason the job exists.
- Adhere to affiliate goals and policies on professionalism, wait time in-clinic and on the system for addressing client complaints.
- Participate in health center efforts to achieve established goals for productivity.
- Participate in health center/affiliate efforts to achieve established revenue cycle goals.
If I assume the listed functions are in order of importance then I can only conclude that Planned Parenthood's number one concern is getting clients out of the waiting room as quickly as possible. That seems reasonable; nobody likes to wait. But I believe their motive for a short wait time is more nefarious. The less time a woman has to think about her choices the less likely she is to change her mind and walk out the door.
Their number two concern is achieving goals for productivity. Productivity on what? Ask yourself, what primary service does Planned Parenthood offer? Now think about that service in terms of a productivity goal. It makes me sick to my stomach to think Planned Parenthood defines aborting babies in terms of a "goal" to be met.
Their number three job function is to achieve established revenue cycle goals. And right there, in Planned Parenthood's own words, you have what I believe to be their number one reason for existence - profit. I'm a capitalist and I believe every business should be free to make a profit. But killing innocent human beings to meet an "established revenue goal" is breathtakingly barbaric. I can't help but think those who engage in the practice day after day surely become calloused to the point of losing their very souls.
I'm glad I came across this job opening. Like I said, I'm defining what I don't want to do in healthcare.
