Family Medicine, Weekend Physician

General Practitioner

Diagnoses and treats a variety of diseases and injuries in general practice by performing the following duties. Elicits and records information about patient's medical history. Orders or executes various tests, analyses, and diagnostic images to provide information on patient's condition. Refers to medical specialists or other practitioners for specialized treatment. Administers or prescribes treatments and drugs and performs minor surgery or procedures as appropriate to specialty training. Advises patients concerning diet, hygiene, and methods for prevention of disease. Provides emergency medical treatment as presented up to the level of license, training, facilities, or resources available. Provides prenatal care to pregnant women as pre-arranged with a local obstetrician, delivers babies in emergencies, and provides postnatal care to mother and infant. Makes house and emergency calls within the scope of service to attend to patients unable to visit the center or to whom doing so would be a hardship. Conducts physical examinations to provide information needed for admission to school, consideration for jobs, eligibility for insurance coverage surgical procedures, disability. Strives to meet spiritual, mental, and emotional needs of patients as appropriate and available. Call coverage will be required for after hours and weekends.

Directly supervises assistants (nurses or medical assistants) especially those to whom medical tasks or procedures have been delegated. Assists the Chief Medical Officer with performance improvement projects and with annual evaluations of directly supervised staff as needed or requested. Grace Health recognizes that managing patient care is a team effort that involves clinical and non-clinical staff. All employees must embrace a team-based approach to patient care and understand that each role is important to our success. Team members must demonstrate excellent team communication and coordination to provide quality patient care. Care coordination includes communicating with community organizations, health plans, facilities, and specialists. Care team members understand and embrace the concept of population management and proactively address the needs of patients and families served by this practice. Team members must participate in Continuous Quality Improvement activities within the organization to ensure patients receive high-quality care. All team members will be involved in the process of improving quality incomes. Team members will participate in the review and evaluation processes of practice performance and help to identify opportunities for improvement. Team members will participate in Grace Health's advocacy program. On occasion, physicians may be required to provide cross coverage for other area providers. Due to the health professional shortage in this area providing non-health center patients for other providers can be required to cover sickness or vacation. This cross coverage is provided to ensure ongoing medical care of community patients.

Follows policies and procedures of the office, including administrative, clinical, quality assurance, and personnel. Flexible in being able to multitask. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to assist in advancing Grace Health's mission and to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be able to read, write, and speak English at a high level of proficiency. Must have a medical license or be license-eligible in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Typically, this includes a Doctor of Medicine degree from an accredited university and documented clinical rotations, residencies, fellowships, etc. Must be licensed as a Medical Doctor in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and hold a class 2-5 certification with the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Grace Health is a faith-based, federally qualified community health center (FQHC). We provide primary health services to underserved, underinsured, and uninsured individuals in the southeastern Kentucky region. Our mission is "to show the love and share the truth of Jesus Christ to southeastern Kentucky, through access to compassionate, high-quality, primary health care for the whole person". Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Benefits include safe harbor 401(k) with match potential, paid time off, family friendly work environment, health insurance, wellness program, health savings account, pharmacy benefit, employee visits for medical services, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, STD/LTD, EAP & work life services, voluntary benefits, and hospital indemnity.

Grace Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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