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PruittHealth Medical Director - PruittHealth Physician Services in Gainesville, Georgia
Medical Director - PruittHealth Physican Services
Monday - Friday routine business hours - life balance- in our beautiful post acute care environment
The Oaks of Limestone & PruittHealth Lanier
JOB PURPOSE:
PruittHealth Physican Services endorses AMDA’s key roles for post-acute/long-term care modified for our setting and model.
1) Medical Practice Leadership: Responsible for overall facility care and clinical practice.
2) Care Process Leadership: Applies clinical and administrative skills to guide facility care provision.
3) Quality of Care: Helps develop and manage quality and safety initiatives, including risk management.
4) Education, Information, and Communication: Provided to help facility staff, practitioners, and the community to better provide and/or understand care.
Take a virtual tour of our facilities:
The Oaks Limestone: https://www.seeit360.com/the-oaks-limestone
PruittHealth Lanier : https://www.seeit360.com/pruitthealth-lanier
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Administrative:
Participates in administrative leadership, management, and decision-making.
Demonstrates leadership to supervise healthcare professionals, and demonstrates exceptional communicationskills.
Maintains a working knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, standards of conduct, as well as applicable PruittHealth policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence to these in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional practice and behavior.
- Professional Services:
Assists in establishing agreements or relationships with outside health care organizations (e.g., regulatory agencies, professional groups, insurers, ambulance companies, andhospitals).
Helps ensure adequate documentation of patient care and relatedinformation.
Advises the facility on interacting with utilization revieworganizations.
Develops policies and procedures related to health care trainees in the facility (e.g., physicians in training, medicalstudents).
- Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement:
Participates in processes which ensure quality of care and which track whether care is effective, efficient, safe, timely, patient-centered, and equitable. This alsoincludes:
Appling knowledge of state and national care standards to help meet the applicable care standards.
Monitoring PPS provider performance and practice; providing feedback on facility clinical staff performance andpractice.
Helping to ensure that QAPI addresses issues that are germane to the quality of patient care and facilityservices.
Helping the facility to use QAPI program findings, as appropriate, to update and improve policies, procedures, andpractices.
- Education:
Participates in developing and disseminating key information andeducation.
Serves as a resource regarding geriatric medicine and other care-related topics, and helps the staff and practitioners identify and access relevant educational resources (e.g., books, periodicals,articles).
Implements professional development programs and clinical education for nursepractitioners.
Oversees coordination and execution of Nurse Practitioner clinicalorientation.
- Employee Health:
Participates in surveillance and promotion of employee health, safety, andwelfare.
Advises the facility about infectious disease issues related toemployees.
- Community:
Articulates the facility’s mission to thecommunity.
Acts as an advocate for the facility, encourages and facilitates community involvement in the activitiesofthefacility,andhelpsthefacilityeducatethecommunityaboutitscapabilitiesand services.
- Rights of Individuals:
Participates in establishing policies, procedures, practices, and an atmosphere promoting and assuring the rights of individuals (patients, staff, practitioners, and community) are respected.
Ensure that practices reflect and respect resident rights, including the opportunity for self- determination; e.g., via tools such as living wills and durable powers ofattorney.
Advocates for the ethical and legal rights of all residents are respected. This includes the right of residents to request practitioners to limit, withhold, or withdrawtreatment(s).
Helps the facility accommodate patients’ choice of an attendingphysician
- Social, Regulatory, Political, and Economic Factors:
Acquires and applies knowledge of social, regulatory, political, and economic factors that relate to patient care and relatedservices.
Helpstoidentifyandprovidecarethatisconsistentwithapplicablesocial,regulatory,political, and economic policies andexpectations.
Helps to identify, interpret, and comply with relevant State and Federal laws andregulations.
- Person-Directed Care Advocate:
- Supports and promotes a care environment prioritizing self- determination, dignity, choice, and preservation of prior routines andpreferences.
MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIRED:
Education: MD or DO degree required
Completion of accredited residency training
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Minimum 3 years clinical experience as a physician in a geriatric, adult, or family medicine setting.
Minimum 2 years in a leadership position.
Proven ability to perform comprehensive, adult/geriatric physical exam.
Demonstrated ability to identify, diagnose, and document chronic disease in adults.
Demonstrated ability to recognize conditions, characteristics, and behaviors that place seniors at risk.
Proven ability to pursue feedback, continuing education, and professional development.
Ability to effectively reconcile medications.
Demonstrated ability to identify and document the needs of clinically complex patients.
Pertinent Clinical Work Experience which is relevant to population being served.
Ability to understand, articulate, and incorporate palliative and end-of-life principles and practices into care plans and discussions or education with staff, patients, and decision-makers. This includes discussing, clarifying, and documenting prognosis, goals, and advance directives
MINIMUM LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION REQUIRED BY LAW:
Current licensure in state of practice
Board certification
Current CPR certification
DEA licensure (Class II-V unrestricted)
Requirements – Application:
CAQH-level application and attestation, with credentialing via primary source verification
Background check
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: (Preferred qualifications)
Geriatric Board Certification
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Board Certification
Significant long term care or geriatric practice experience
Significant Hospice and Palliative Medicine practice experience
Significant medical director experience in long term care and/or hospice
AMDA Certified Medical Director (CMD)
Wound care experience and/or certification
Bilingual (English & Spanish)
Significant work with behavioral health populations
Significant work with low income and disadvantaged populations
Significant work with vulnerable adults or senior populations
Knowledge of community resources
Travel Requirements: (travel is required)
Must meet company driving standards
Must have valid state driver license and be able to drive a car
Must meet company's automobile liability insurance standards and provide proof of coverage
Must be able to independently travel to assigned locations
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:
Possesses adequate computer skills, including use of e-mail and Microsoft Office Word and Excel.
Possesses effective written communication skills including but not limited to writing reports and correspondence.
Demonstrates effective verbal communication skills, including speaking and listening effectively to members, providers, families and staff.
Possesses ability to meet deadlines, and use time effectively and efficiently.
Demonstrates successful experience working in and coping with an environment of change.
Dedication to meeting expectations and requirements of both external and internal customers; acts with customers in mind.
Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with customers, and gain their trust and respect.
Uses logical methods to solve problems with effective solutions; looks beyond the obvious for solutions.
Is action oriented and sees challenges as opportunities.
Exempt: May be required to work beyond normal working hours on weekends and holidays as necessary. Subject to callback during any emergency.
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