Md/Do With Er Experience

LaSante Health Center is seeking an MD/DO with prior ER experience to join our team in an FQHC from 7pm-10pm, to provide urgent and non-urgent health care for individuals in the Urgent and Primary Care Practice commensurate with training and in accordance with the general policies and standards of practice, as established by the FQHC. Delivers care appropriate for an out-patient, primary care community health center with a multicultural patient population. Elicits detailed patient histories and conducts complete physician examinations. Reaches diagnosis and orders appropriate laboratory tests and referrals, etc., as well as counsels patient and family on health and disease.

Duties And Responsibilities

MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE WORKING AS A PHYSICIAN IN THE ER.

• Ability to provide urgent clinical procedures (such as stitches, splinting etc)
• Evaluate patients, based on medical training and/or specialty, to determine the medical condition of the patient, through the performance of physical examinations, thereby, establishing a diagnosis and proposed treatment plan.
• Document each on site/in office procedure, prescription, consultation and patient contact in patient's chart and on the FQHC's encounter forms, within a 24-hour period.
• Counsel patient regarding medical and other problems which might affect patient's health and well-being.
• As a member of the health care team, exemplify an example in attitude toward patients and staff, thereby, performing duties with respect, dignity, privacy, and modesty to the patients.
• Perform other job related duties, as may be assigned, by the Medical Director.
• Participate and cooperate in all reasonable efforts with the FQHC to apply for and secure public or private grants, contracts, and donations, and all customary and desirable accreditations, licensing and permits.
• Maintain high standard of medical practice and participate in the training development of the medical team. Assist in medical education of both the patients and FQHC staff.
• Prepare forms, letters, and examinations on behalf of patients for claims of disability, workmen's compensation, injuries and illnesses, etc.
• Provide the necessary back-up to the on-call physician, resident, emergency room personnel, etc. with regard to giving directions on an appropriate treatment plan. Additionally, perform physician rounds and other inpatient care for FQHC patients hospitalized at institutions with which the FQHC has an agreement for hospitalization of its patients.
• Provide direction and leadership to the FQHC's medical support staff, with regard to the administering of a patient's care.
• Provide supervision in case assignment to physician assistant, including sign off on charts.
• Perform such clinical procedures for patient's benefit which are within scope and skill of practitioner and which are economically feasible.
• Participate in the development of FQHC protocols and formulary. Make recommendations, suggestions, etc., on chart information forms.
• Facilitates the patient’s transition within and between health care settings; refer and transfer patients for specialty care, provide follow-up care and discharge patients.
• Responsible for the delivery of care, treatment, and referrals. Arrange for referral resources for those medical specialties not provided by the Corporation for patients of the FQHC.