Family Practice - Geriatrics Physician

Center Medical Director

Ready to have your nights and weekends back to yourself? You'll work Monday through Friday, supporting only our enrolled participants.

Job Description

• Provide medical care for InnovAge PACE enrolled participants across a variety of settings, including but not limited to the center's clinic, participants' homes, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and personal care boarding homes. Direct hospital inpatient care is not required but close coordination of care with hospital-based providers is essential.
• Responsible for oversight of day-to-day medical operations at the center and provides supervision of physicians and adult nurse practitioners.
• Assist with keeping expenses within the department budget, quality initiatives, utilization, and resource management.
• Physical attendance at an InnovAge facility and/or an InnovAge participant home is essential to performing the job duties.

Primary Care - 65%

• Provide medical care to enrolled participants, including the evaluation, diagnosis, and management of their medical conditions, including but not limited to taking a medical history, performing physical examinations, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests, formulating an assessment of condition and a treatment plan, writing prescriptions, ongoing follow-up of the same, and management of medical information from specialists and hospital teams.
• Document medical care in the participant's medical record, in compliance with documentation policies. May include involvement with the establishment of electronic medical records and providing the Area Medical Director with input around needed ongoing EMR enhancements.
• On a rotational basis, provide after-hours on-call coverage every few weeks. All calls are first triaged by an RN with only a subset requiring direct physician involvement.
• Participate within the interdisciplinary team in the formulation of Plans of Care for participants, as well as in other interdisciplinary team settings that further the care of participants.
• Present input into, initiate, and/or facilitate new medical programs and processes in support of strategic goals.

Administrative & Supervision - 35%

• Assist with the preparation of the primary care budget and explain monthly budget variances.
• Provide reports on utilization areas: inpatient, ER, outpatient, nursing home, pharmacy, and areas where there is a significant budget variance.
• Participate in quality initiatives in conjunction with the Quality Department.
• Respond to center grievances with respect to primary care complaints.
• Champion at least one primary care strategic initiative.
• Coordinate the regular primary care team meetings held at the center and may lead local primary care meetings when asked.
• Responsible for the recruitment, hiring, and termination of primary care staff under the supervision and in consultation with the Area Medical Director.
• Effectively supervise and manage direct reports and provide, by example and leadership, motivation and direction to employees of the organization.
• Help set the tone of the department to ensure morale, teamwork, and that the positive employment culture of the organization is maintained.
• Regularly schedule leadership/management, department, and staff 1:1 meetings to provide leadership, development, and a forum for communication to ensure coordination and collaboration in meeting organization and individual goals.