Physician - Service Chief Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

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This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until September 14, 2026. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be July 20, 2026, with subsequent cut-off dates every 2 weeks. Eligible applications received after that date will be accepted on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be considered as vacancies become available.

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Work Schedule: Full-time. Schedule will be determined by supervisor.

Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

CME: Possible $1,000 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification)

Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided

Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting

Major Duties Include But Are Not Limited To:

Clinical:

• Provide medical and rehabilitation care to patients served across the continuum of care within rehabilitation, including consultative.
• Oversee outpatient and inpatient clinical operations, within PM&R/Polytrauma, ensuring standards of care consistent with CARF, CMS, OIG and TJC
• Directly oversee PM&R care delivery of the physicians in PM&R and Polytrauma.
• Supervise, organize, and monitor duty assignments, tours of duty, leave requests of all PM&R physicians to ensure daily physician services within all clinical settings of Rehabilitation are available to provide patient care according to clinic schedules. Ensure continuous physician services are provided twenty-four hours a day, 7 days a week, inclusive of holidays within the inpatient services/units.
• Provide supervision of PM&RS physician residents on an as needed basis.
• Conduct review of referrals or consults for admission to the various programs within the Rehabilitation Service.
• Facilitate collaboration with other medical/clinical/ancillary services to ensure patient care is coordinated and interdisciplinary

Administrative:

• Ensuring that written policies and procedures are developed in compliance with all applicable VHA Central Office, PM&R and accrediting organization standards and requirements which must be reviewed bi-annually and updated as necessary.
• Ensure adequate resources are available to provide coverage of PM&RS responsibilities across the continuum of care.
• Provide ongoing communication of local and national changes impacting PM&RS.
• Work collaboratively with the Deputy Chief of Staff and the Chief of Therapy Services to address service delivery issues related to the PM&RS.
• Develop and implement PM&RS strategic plans in partnership with the VAPAHCS rehabilitation leadership, inclusive of gathering input from internal and external stakeholders.
• Contributing to the annual performance evaluations for all PM&R staff.
• Ensuring that a QI or Total Quality Improvement (TQI) committee meets at least quarterly to identify important aspects of care and to monitor areas of service delivery which are identified as high-risk, high-volume (such as preventive health maintenance program), or problem prone.
• Ensure performance measures are met, e.g., access to care, patient satisfaction, patient outcomes, and risk management shall be addressed.
• A systematic plan must be used for collecting and analyzing data, taking corrective action, and reporting results.
• Ensuring that the PM&RS and the preventive health maintenance program actively participate in the PI/QI Programs of VAPAHCS.

Research:

• Monitor the research activities within PM&RS and Polytrauma.
• Encouraged to participate in and promote research within the department.
• Assist and support physician/resident and staff research efforts

Educational:

• Oversee Stanford/VA PM&R residency training/supervision within VA PM&R services with residency site directors (physician) and site coordinators.
• Provide and assist with PM&R residency education/didactics to residents/medical students, as well as PM&R staff.
• Contribute and assist with Stanford PM&R Grand Rounds and Resident Research Day Conferences.
• Collaborate with the Chief of Stanford PM&R/ Dept of Orthopedics to ensure that the VA PM&R Service maintenances the integrity, standards, and development of the Stanford PM&R program