Immediate Opening Primary Care Provider Lovely Brownsville, Texas

Primary Care Physician

The Primary Care Physician functions as the physician leader within a multidisciplinary PACT team or as a float or gap provider assigned to provide comprehensive, collaborative acute and continuity care to an assigned panel of Veterans as well as to patients outside of the assigned panel when Veteran care indicates a need for such. A relocation or recruitment incentive may be available for a highly qualified candidate. This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP).

Duties and responsibilities for the Primary Care Staff Physician include, but are not limited to:

• Ongoing, continuous care of one or more assigned panel(s) of Veterans.
• Utilizing all available tools, such as registries, to enable effective and efficient identification and intervention of individual patients and cohorts.
• Ensuring appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patients assigned to the patient panel.
• Functioning at the full extent of the team member's relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scopes of practice, elements of practice, certification, functional statement, or other VHA or local facility approved documentation of competency.
• Participating in team performance improvement and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and care delivery to patients.
• Implementing primary care operations management processes, as appropriate.
• Managing communications and facilitating safe transitions of patients between the PACT's site of care and other health care settings, using informal and formal communication methods, as appropriate.
• Providing health education and health coaching on wellness, disease prevention, chronic care management, and self-management skills to patients and personal support persons, commensurate with the documented expertise or professional training of the PACT member.
• Engaging patients in using health care, encouraging patients to engage personal support persons, receiving input from patients and personal support persons regarding VA care.
• Using formal and informal communications that are respectful, effective, timely, and bidirectional with all team members (including the patient and personal support persons) to convey significant, clinically relevant information for the care of the patient.
• Providing health care commensurate to the PCP's licensure and clinical privileges or scope of practice.
• Ensuring the patient's care plan contains medical recommendations for clinically indicated care.
• Offering clinically indicated health care services to patients assigned to the PACT and providing or arranging for care to which patient's consent.
• Ensuring the patient has same-day access for face-to-face and telephone care visits during regular clinic hours.
• Collaborating with PACT staff to develop personal health plans that incorporate care management and care coordination appropriate to the patient's needs.
• Provide leadership in the application of the PACT model and clinical practice guidelines to organizational processes and/or systems in order to optimize patient care outcomes, achieve excellence in both internal and external customer service and shape collaborative, high-performing teams.
• Completes Women's Health Training certification and provides Women's Health care.
• Will provide gender specific care in accordance with VHA Directive 1330.01 Health Care Services for Women Veterans such as but not limited to routine pap smear screening, breast health and management of menopause and osteoporosis.
• May participate in teaching/supervision of medical students and residents. In which case, compliance with GME requirements while fostering an environment supportive of education, training and research is required.
• To be responsive to patient related communication from other clinicians regardless of modality (phone, IM, encrypted email, additional signer) in a timely fashion to promote cooperation in coordination of patient care.
• Ensures that patients are made aware of normal diagnostic results within 14 days and abnormal tests results requiring action within a clinically appropriate time interval and not more than 7 days.
• Other duties as assigned by Chief Medical Officer

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Available for highly qualified candidate Education Debt Reduction Program (Student Loan Repayment): Authorized