Geriatrician

Website La Maestra Community Health Center

Location: City Heights

Status/Hours: Full Time/Exempt

Pay Range: $228,800.00 to $262,080.00 Annually, Depends on Experience (DOE)

Summary

As part of a multi-disciplinary team of healthcare providers under the leadership of the Medical Director, the Geriatric physician works to achieve the organizational goals of La Maestra Community Health Centers through the delivery of primary care services at a patient-centered medical home. As a primary care provider, you will play a crucial role in improving the lives of older adults. The staff physician works in a collaborative effort across all departments to remove barriers to accessing healthcare. The staff physician must incorporate health center policies (including quality assurance) into their clinical practice to provide quality care commensurate with training and licensure. The position also oversees clinical support staff (i.e., Advanced Practice Providers, Nursing staff, and Medical Assistants). It handles operational issues on the clinical floor to ensure continuity of services and a smooth patient flow. Delivers care appropriate for an outpatient, primary care community health center with a multicultural, multilingual patient population.

Responsibilities

  • Under general supervision of the Department Medical Director, render professional services to patients and perform related work.
  • Abides by all LMCHC clinical policies to provide quality medical care to all patients in accordance with training and licensure.
  • Acts as primary consultant on all geriatric cases referred by other staff providers, in person or via telephone.
  • Ensure that our senior patients received the highest standard of medical care.
  • Provide preventive care, manage chronic and age-related conditions, and address acute issues in a timely manner.
  • Examines and prescribes treatment for Clinic patients; assists in activities for the detection and control of communicable diseases; consults with private physicians on diagnoses involving diseases; interprets laboratory data; renders professional services in school health, birth control, maternal and child health, venereal diseases, immunization and TB finding programs, keeps records and prepares reports as required.
  • Participates in the planning and implementation of new clinical programs as needed. Also, works with new technologies for the improvement of patient services and clinic operations.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities

  • Attend in-house staff meetings including Quality Improvement.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Patient Centered Medical Home Essential Responsibilities (Principals)

  • Collaborate with individual patients, their personal physicians, and when appropriate the patient’s family to ensure accessible, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally competent care
  • Facilitate care by registries, information technology, health information exchange and other means to assure that patients get the indicated care when and where they need and want it in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.
  • Ensure all decisions respect patients’ wants, needs, and preferences and that patients have the education and support they require to make decisions and participate in their own care.
  • Continually strive to attend to each patient’s “whole person,” in the context of the patient’s personal and medical history and life circumstances, rather than focusing on a particular disease, organ, or system.

Job Requirements

Education:  Medical Degree from an approved/accredited school of medicine (MD or DO).

Certification required: Current valid CA Physician & Surgeon License. Current valid DEA registration.  Board eligibility in Geriatric medicine is required; board certification is desirable.  Current valid CPR certification

Experience: One to two years’ experience as a practicing Geriatric physician in the State of California preferred

Verbal and Written Skills to perform the job:  Bilingual preferred. Familiarity with basic word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications.  Accurate keyboarding skills.

La Maestra Community Health Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability or any other protected class, political affiliation or belief.

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