Medical Doctor

Medical Doctor

Mountain Family Health Centers is seeking a full-time, exempt Medical Doctor. The Medical Doctor will perform professional medical activities as a primary care physician providing acute, chronic, and preventative medical care.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Embrace the mission, vision, and Six Principles of the Board of Directors of Mountain Family Health Centers.
• Makes competent health care diagnosis and treatment decisions.
• Provides diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients, including physical exams, and prescribing therapy; managing acute, chronic, and preventative care; and referring for hospital and specialty services.
• Interprets laboratory results, outside test results and reports from outside consultants.
• Provides or supervises patient information or education.
• Assists in monitoring the quality of Laboratory, X-ray, and other clinic services.
• Provides input to team-based care, clinic improvements activities and the site team.
• Supervises health care performed by family nurse practitioners and physician's assistant, to include being available by telephone to provide back-up and information during normal office hours, when scheduled to work.
• Reviews and signs charts as preceptor for physician assistants within two weeks of the encounter in accordance with provisions of the Board of Medical Examiners.
• Assists in developing and monitoring guidelines for non-physician clinicians to use when physician is not on site.

Site with Opening: Glenwood Springs Integrated Health Center, Glenwood Springs, CO

Hiring Organization: Mountain Family Health Centers

Practice Highlights:

Since 1978, Mountain Family Health Centers has continued to open its doors to those without private health insurance. From a single clinic, we have now expanded into a network of health care facilities along Colorado's I-70 corridor from Parachute to Avon, and along the Roaring Fork Valley to Basalt. As a nonprofit, community led health center, we are dedicated to providing comprehensive, integrated health care for all. We firmly believe that health care is a basic human right, not a privilege. Mountain Family currently serves more than 24,000 patients. We address the needs of our patients and our community by providing sophisticated, whole-person care with an integrated health model. Our patients have access to medical, dental, behavioral, and pharmacy care, with all four services available at all of our health care sites. We exceed national clinical outcome goals for childhood immunizations; hypertension control; tobacco screening and cessation; healthy weight screening; nutrition and activity counseling; depression screening and follow-up; early entry into prenatal care; and healthy birth weight babies. We were also recently rated Colorado's top performing community health system for diabetes control.

Community Highlights:

Glenwood Springs is a community of 9,000 people on the western slope in central Colorado with easy access to Aspen and Vail. The Roaring Fork Valley provides unsurpassed access to mountain recreational opportunities such as hiking, bicycling, fishing, river running, and skiing. There is a selection of private and public schools at all age levels and a junior college in the area. Visit the Glenwood Springs website at for more information about the beautiful area and community.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Communication
• Health Center Culture
• Customer Service for Internal and External Customers/Patients
• Job Knowledge
• Problem Solving
• Planning/Organizing
• Quality Management
• Safety and Security
• Teamwork

Education or Formal Training & Experience:

• Family Practice Experience preferred.
• Graduation from an approved medical school.
• Satisfactory completion of a post-graduate training program and is Board-Eligible or Board-Certified by the American Board of Physician Specialties.
• Licensed to practice medicine in the State of Colorado.
• BLS Certification required.

Additional Requirements:

• Must pass a criminal background check.
• Must pass a drug screening.
• Annual Flu vaccine required; employer will provide.
• Obtain PPD for tuberculosis (annually if provider); employer will provide.
• Obtain vaccine records for MMR, Varicella, T-Dap, Hep B, and COVID-19; employer will provide.

Salary: $205,000 to $245,000 annually

Sign On Bonus: Up to $10,000

Benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 403B retirement plan with 3% matching after 1 year of employment
• 7 paid holidays
• 124 PTO hours within the first year
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Worksite wellness