Company Description
More Than Just Care, It’s Community
Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.
If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be Munson Material. To us, that means teammates who live by our values of excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.
Invested in You
- Grow: Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance.
- Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.
- Be Well: Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges.
- Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings
Job Description
A Day in the Life
- The Ultrasonographer I functions under the delegated authority of a supervising physician to provide diagnostic medical sonography services, delivering clinically relevant imaging information to support patient diagnosis and treatment in accordance with education, training, professional standards, and facility policies.
- Prepare equipment and exam rooms, verify orders and patient identifiers, review patient history, communicate effectively with patients, and perform ultrasound examinations safely and efficiently per established protocols.
- Apply independent clinical judgment to obtain accurate and complete imaging, recognize exam limitations, acquire additional images as needed, and prepare preliminary findings for physician interpretation.
- Ensure patient safety, comfort, privacy, and infection control while maintaining professional, ethical, and appearance standards.
- Operate, clean, and maintain ultrasound equipment; perform quality control; manage documentation and images in PACS; and support departmental operations, including quality improvement activities, basic vascular studies, education support, on-call coverage, and routine stocking and housekeeping.
Qualifications
What’s Required
- Completion of college or hospital based Vascular or Diagnostic Medical Sonography Program or completion of Allied Health Program approved by the AMA.
- Registered or registry eligible. Registry should be acquired within 6 months from hire date of minimum of Physics registry passed and a specialty registry by 1 year of hire date.
- Level 1: Under 5 years’ experience in at least a single RDMS subspecialty (ABD, OB/GYN etc.)
Sonographers will perform basic ultrasound exams and procedures as well as limited vascular exams including but not limited to: Abdomen/Renal, Small Parts, General OB all trimesters, Neonatal Head, Thoracentesis, Paracentesis,Thyroid Biopsy, Guided injections or aspirations, Carotid, Venous Doppler, GYN, Hysterosonograms
Additional Information
Schedule: Weekends Only (Friday - Sunday) 7:00p-7:00a
Are you Munson Material? Apply today!
Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.
