About Astria The Astria Health system, headquartered in the heart of the state of Washington’s wine country in the beautiful Yakima Valley, is the largest non-profit healthcare system based in Eastern Washington. Astria Health is the parent non-profit organization of Astria Sunnyside Hospital and Astria Toppenish Hospital and delivers care throughout the Valley through its Astria Health Hospitals and its Astria Ambulatory Care model focused on delivering the highest level of ambulatory and outpatient care in convenient locations in both the Lower and Upper Yakima Valley.
Astria Ambulatory Care is designed to meet the changing lifestyles and diverse needs of those living and working throughout the region. Across our healthcare network, you will find a dynamic range of meaningful careers and opportunities for growth and safe workplaces. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, marketing, or our clinical services in any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for providing exceptional healthcare to our communities motivates us to achieve excellence each day.
If you share our passion, we want to hear from you. Our operating principles define how we come together as a team to do our work. They reflect Astria Health’s unique view on what’s important and right - being a leader in providing innovative, exceptional rural healthcare solutions with kindness and dignity.
Documenting this core aspect of our culture helps employees make good decisions independently, cultivate trust through accountability, and go beyond the expected. We believe in continuously escalating the bar for talent and performance because we are obsessed with a commitment to excellence and patient care. It also helps candidates consider career opportunities and evaluate whether they will thrive at Astria Health.
Astria Health is seeking a Audiologist to join our team! This position is located at our Sunnyside Astria Health Audilogy and Pediatric Therapies Center.
8 hour day shift, Monday - Friday. What you get to do every day! As the Audiologist, you will be responsible for performing medical assessments and all diagnostic (hearing, balance, central auditory processing, electrophysiologic testing, CI candidacy evaluation, Otoacoustic Emissions testing) and hearing aid services with proper medical clearance from the referring physician, and in accordance with approved policies, procedures and protocols.
You will: Demonstrates support of change in the continual evaluation and implementation of ways to improve the organization’s performance and achievement of long-term goals and objectives. Responsible for providing audiology services to patients, including evaluations, counseling patients and selecting and fitting hearing aids. Assess, diagnose, treat and help prevent disorders related to hearing and balance.
Perform needed adjustments to fitted products; comply with all procedural company quality standards and guidelines to maximize product performance and overcome patient concerns/objections. Report regularly on activity status and related results, patient performance, existing patient retention and new patient development initiatives in a format provided by the company Performs other duties as assigned, Collaborate effectively across organizational boundaries.
Adheres to the core values and standards of the organization. Requirements Master’s Degree in Audiology or Au. D.
Current Washington State Audiology licensure. One or more years of direct clinical experience. Oral and written fluency in the English language.
and Education. Bilingual English/Spanish Previous experience infant hearing testing Previous experience/certification with hearing aid vendors This position is identified as a non safety-sensitive position, however impairment while on the job would present a substantial risk of death. As a condition of employment, you will need to authorize and complete a background check.
Information received from the background check is reviewed case-by-case and will not necessarily remove an applicant from consideration.