Nurse Practitioner (NP)/Physician Assistant (PA)

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UltaCare Medical has an opening for an advanced level practitioner to provide primary care services onsite at a skilled nursing and long-term care senior living facility. This role is exclusive to one facility in Pigeon Forge, TN. In this role, you are the lead daily onsite clinician caring for the resident population and will also have the responsibility of coordinating care with their PCP/attending physician and/or the facility’s Medical Director. This individual will address acute issues with urgency and chronic issues with a mindset to slow progression, reduce risk of major acute events, and improve quality of life. This role requires a compassionate, responsive, proficient healthcare professional that puts patients first. This is an institutional in-patient setting, and this individual must be comfortable determining the medical necessity of residents as well as manage your time as you are the one that determines the schedule of who to see and when. While you will work in a collaborative fashion with the site’s Medical Director, the Medical Director is not on site the majority of the time and so this individual will have to make many decisions independently. The role will report to the company’s Chief Medical Officer who is also always available for guidance and support.

Most providers find this to be a highly rewarding position as you have the opportunity to utilize the breadth of your skills, training, and expertise. This role is a great fit for individuals that don’t want to be focused on just one or two things but prefer treating a wide spectrum of conditions. Additionally, you genuinely make a big difference in people’s lives and can leave work every day knowing you made a difference.

Many of our positions serve rural communities. These communities rely upon people helping others and tend to be tight-knit. We play a vital role in these communities by improving healthcare for those that may otherwise have difficulty accessing it. Our group was founded in 2006 and has always followed a guiding mission of keeping a small company feel while helping as many people as possible.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide medical evaluation, treatment, and consultation to facility residents.
Perform chronic disease visits for residents at a scheduled frequency.
Respond to, assess, and treat acute medical events as needed.
Work in a collaborative fashion with all facility staff and the facilities Medical Director.
Provide medical orders for prescription refills, administration of medications, ancillary testing, and/or referrals.
Communicate to resident’s family members as needed.
Fully document each patient interaction via dictation into a patient visit record within 24 hours of the visit.
Reviews ancillary test results and coordinates notification to the patient.
Provides patient education as needed.

Qualifications and Experience:

Active Advanced Level Practitioner license. We are open to both NPs and PAs.
Preferred experience working in an institutional inpatient setting.
Preferred experience working in a skilled nursing and/or long-term care facility.
Preferred experience working with geriatric patients.
Individual needs to be comfortable and proficient at taking initiative with identifying patients to see, setting your own schedule and forging. and maintaining productive relationships with facility staff.
Able to work independently, make own decisions.

Compensation:

$105,000 – $150,000 annually for a full-time position (salary + bonus)

About UltaCare Medical:

UltaCare Medical is a patient-focused medical group dedicated to providing high-quality care to seniors in long-term care and skilled nursing facilities. Our team of compassionate and expert providers offer a range of services, including primary care, mental health care, wound care, and more. We’re committed to removing unnecessary administrative burdens and empowering our providers to deliver the best care possible. UltaCare Medical has a rich history rooted in the dedication and passion of our founder, a geriatrician, who was approached by a struggling nursing home in East TN in 2006. The facility had incurred significant tags and fines from the state for a number of issues and needed help to improve healthcare for their residents. Our founder conducted an in-depth analysis and recommended embedding certain providers into the facility to improve care. The nursing home was so impressed with his work that they asked him to implement the changes he recommended. After several years, the nursing home went from being a struggling 1-star facility, barely able to stay open, to a thriving 5-star facility at 100% occupancy. Our founder’s work was recognized when he was awarded the prestigious AMDA National Medical Director of the Year. This experience inspired the development of UltaCare Medical’s patient-focused model, which has evolved and improved over the intervening 17 years. Today, our team of compassionate and expert providers offer a range of services, including primary care, mental health care, wound care, and more, with a mission to elevate the standard of care for seniors in long-term care and skilled nursing facilities. We’re committed to removing unnecessary administrative burdens and empowering our providers to deliver the best care possible. Our model has proved to be successful in improving the health and quality of life of our patients, and we continue to grow and expand to new locations across TN, KY, TX, KS, IA, NE, and IL.

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