Family Medicine Physician

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Provide comprehensive primary healthcare and medical services to patients including ordering laboratory and radiology tests, referring patients to specialists when appropriate, analyzing medical data to diagnose conditions and propose treatment, and providing direction to patients regarding lifestyle changes and treatment to improve health.
• Expand HEALing Community Center’s health community outreach and education services by assisting with the planning, organizing, and implementation of medical outreach events and activities within the community.
• Assist in the coordination of processes to identify high-risk patients and enroll them in the health services program. Supports the expansion of the program by developing and consistently updating the tracking process of logged individual patient and community contacts.
• Ensure the success of the outreach program by collecting engagement data and submitting regular monthly reports on patients served and community connections.
• Work with Primary care providers and the Medical Director to help improve health services for children and pregnant women.
• Links patients to appropriate community resources for health and health-related services consistent with regulatory, contractual, and corporate requirements.
• Cultivates relationships with referral sources and a multi-disciplinary team that includes, but is not limited to medical, dental, prenatal providers, case managers, outreach staff, call center staff, and community partners.
• Assume quality of care for all patients of HEALing Community Center.
• Adhere to the highest standard of medical practices, ethics, and professionalism at all times.
• Assist the Medical Director in establishing medical policies, and quality improvement procedures, evaluating current practices, and making recommendations.
• Recommend changes in all clinical areas or in general to improve patient flow, medical records, medical billings, and appointment practices.
• Supervise, direct, train, and educate medical ancillary staff as well as mid-level providers, to perform their duties when necessary to understand policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Maintain an affiliation with the professional groups, medical associations, and medical organizations, as per policies and procedures established by HEALing Community Center, and represent HCCOH at all meetings of these associations and organizations whenever possible or as directed by the Medical Director.
• Provide emergency call as scheduled by the medical director by protocols established in that regard and common and standard practices.
• Participation in community health events, such as school screenings, health fairs, social and community events, etc.
• Must become familiar with federal, state, and local funding agencies’ rules and regulations in providing special medical services to certain classes of recipients of services.
• Become familiar with federal and state medical health programs and their requirements.
• Assist in developing the medical care plan for HEALing Community Center and recommend changes as necessary.
• Performs other duties as directed by the Medical Director.

Additional Duties :

HIPAA compliance - Responsible for maintaining abreast of and in compliance with all HIPAA regulations and requirements.

Treats all member information confidential.

• Ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal regulations.
• Participate in QA / QI activities including chart and peer review and contribute towards the overall performance improvement of the organization.
• Required to learn and use the Electronic Health Records and Practice Electronic System and its components. As required by the job functions and highlighted in the Policies and Procedures.

These components include AthenaNet, and other electronic features, as they are developed and implemented, as applicable to the work environment.

All employees will participate in Patient Centered Health Home Model HEALing Community Center.

Qualifications :

Education and Experience

• M.D. from an accredited institution
• Successful completion of an accredited Family Medicine Residency with preferably 2 years of clinical practice experience
• Current American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) certification or be board-eligible
• GA medical license or GA medical license eligible
• Current DEA License
• Current BLS for healthcare or ACLS for healthcare
• Current minimal CME hours to maintain license and board certification after residency
• Knowledge of the Spanish language is helpful
• Familiar with FQHC is preferred
• Must be able to travel to various sites if needed

Essential Functions :

• Diagnose and treat problems with a patient’s health
• Provide instruction and education on all entities of medicine that affect the patient’s overall health
• Perform examination of patients, formulation of differential diagnostic plans, define and develop appropriate treatment plans, in a manner that meets patient care needs as well as industry and State standards
• Defines and orders required diagnostic testing as well as generating appropriate subspecialty referrals
• Keeping accurate patient records in EHR
• Keeping current with organized medicine and continuing education practices and CMEs
• Adequately perform all clinical duties within the scope of the family medicine scope and in compliance with GA law.
• Interest in the design and evaluation of the efficiency of a medical program in a community health center setting.
• Authoritative knowledge of the practice and techniques of medicine as a family practitioner in a community health center is highly desirable.
• Ability to relate to the public regardless of ethnicity, religion, and economic status.

Key Competencies :

A thorough and methodical approach to patient-centered care, communication, patience, good ethical grounding, critical thinking, active listening, monitoring, complex problem solving, and decision making;

excellent verbal and written communication, and good judgment.