Family Practice - Without OB Physician

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

Complex Clinical Care:

• Focuses on the management and improvement of health for patients with multiple complex and chronic medical conditions.


• Able to work with and lead a team (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 strong transitional care plans and able to help keep track of paneled patients along the whole continuum of care including discharges from the hospital, ER, skilled nursing facilities/nursing homes, and home care.


• Communicate and interact with alternate levels of care facilities (hospital, ER, skilled nursing facilities) to facilitate appropriate discharge to a lower level of care or back to the AbsoluteCare Medical Center. Familiar with inpatient medicine and the discharge process to help facilitate discharges.


• Treat acute exacerbations of chronic conditions within the AbsoluteCare 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 AbsoluteCare and when a higher level of care 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 physician or case management/social work services to ensure acute episode has resolved and the patient is not admitted/readmitted.


• Vigilant in keeping track of patients and their disease processes to prevent ER visits, admissions to the hospital, and readmissions.


• Understand the PCMH model of care as pertains to specialist care, only utilizing this higher level of care as needed, and not a substitute for a well-trained primary care physician with evidence based clinical skills.


• Educate members on chronic disease progression and the need for advanced directives where applicable.


• Practices evidenced based medicine and in accordance with the PCMH model of care.

Candidate Qualifications:

• Licensed Physician in the state of Practice


• Board certified in Internal Medicine or Family Practice


• BLS certification required


• Mission-Driven to serve the underserved


• Work without ego, and thoughtfully build successful relationships with team members and our partners


• Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team with constant collaboration within and across provider teams


• Experience and comfort utilizing EMR


• Problem-solving and the ability to be creative in those solutions

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in population health management


• Experience in working with psycho-socially and medically complex patient population