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Job Summary
We are excited to add a Part Time Advance Practice Provider, Physician Assistant in Primary Care to our team in Philadelphia! The duties for the Advanced Practice Provider include counseling patients regarding the most appropriate setting to meet their healthcare needs, performing assessments and evaluations of their problems, providing the appropriate information regarding specialist services, and end of life programs. Special attention is given to the PCMH model, evidence-based protocols and screening, and this role functions as a part of a large, integrated care team with the goal of providing whole-person care in the outpatient setting.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage and improve health for patients with multiple chronic medical conditions. Manage a panel of approximately 250 to 300 chronic care ambulatory patients in an office based.
- Work in a team environment (with social work, case management, behavioral health, pharmacy, nutrition, etc.), process feedback, and be open to discussing and implementing plans of care from other members of the team.
- Develop transitional care plans and track patients along the whole continuum of care including discharges from the hospital, ER, skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, and home care
- Familiar with inpatient medicine and the discharge process to help facilitate discharges.
- Treatment of some acute exacerbations of chronic conditions within the center, i.e. Lasix for CHF, IVF for Dehydration/Renal Failure, IV antibiotics for various infections, Nebulizer/Solumedrol for COPD/Asthma etc.
- Possess a comfort level and the knowledge to differentiate when exacerbation can be treated within our care center and when a higher level of care is needed.
- Accept same day/next day or urgent appointments for patients from home or discharged from the hospital/ER/skilled nursing facility in need of intensified practitioner or case management/social work services to ensure acute episode has resolved and the patient is not admitted/readmitted.
- Track patients and their disease processes to prevent ER visits, admissions to the hospital, and readmissions.
- Understands the PCMH model of care as pertains to specialist care, only utilizes this higher level of care as needed, and not a substitute for primary care using evidence based clinical skills.
Education and Experience requirements:
- 2+ years’ of experience as a Licensed Advanced Practice Provider in the state of practice.
- ACLS certification
- Experience with the management of Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial populations.
- Comfortable with and the ability to treat the acutely ill in an outpatient setting offering IV hydration, IV antibiotics, wound care, and other services with the collaboration of a supervising physician.
- Proficiency with EMR, eClinicalWorks preferred
- Knowledge of managed care and insurance processes is preferred
Pay: $75,000.00 – $80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Work Location: In person