Physician - MD or DO
Overview
We offer comprehensive primary medical care, dental care and mental health care to homeless people, people living in public housing, and other under-served people living in and around our urban Southern California city. We also partner with multiple organizations to serve mentally ill patients in transitional housing at multiple clinical service sites throughout our community. We offer holistic and spiritual care, addressing mind, body, soul and spirit.
Mission & Passions
Our Mission
We are called to follow Christ by loving and serving our neighbors through comprehensive, quality healthcare.
Our Vision
Our vision is the healing and restoration of homeless and underserved communities.
Our Values
Christ-likeness- We love with a Christ-like compassion, by walking with those who are suffering toward healing and transformation
Accessibility- We break down barriers, providing patient-centered healthcare when and where it is needed most
Justice- We seek an end to health disparities through advocacy and whole person care
Excellence- We deliver top-quality services through hard work, evidence-based practices, integrity and a continuous focus on improvement
Kindness- We demonstrate warmth, grace, support, and encouragement, to every patient and every staff member
Unity- We work together as teammates, communicating and cooperating with one another to live out our shared mission.
Job Info
Job Title — Physician - MD or DO
Job Description
Need a Full time internal medicine or family practice physician to join our provider team. We provide full spectrum primary care to adults in a faith-based setting, including MAT, HIV, and Hep C treatment, and have strong integration with dental, mental health, and optometry care, as well as social work care coordination and housing navigation. This position is based out of our state of the art downtown Skid row clinic site which serves predominately persons experiencing homelessness. We hope to fill this position by March 15, 2024.
SUMMARY
Renders comprehensive health care within the limitations of professional licensing to patients of the clinic. Assesses needs and prescribes treatment. Compassionately and competently provides primary and preventive health care to all patients, including patients with acute and chronic illnesses, substance use disorders, mental illness, and homelessness. Provides clinical supervision to Advanced Practice Providers working on our provider team. Actively supports the mission of the clinic: to follow Christ by loving and serving our neighbors through comprehensive, quality health care. Embraces and embodies our clinic values of Christ-likeness, accessibility, justice, excellence, unity and kindness.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND PRIVILEGES include:
• Perform evaluation and treatment of patients in the outpatient setting at the clinic sites. Assess medical needs and compile care plan, addressing acute needs, chronic conditions, and preventive health maintenance. Furnish/transmit appropriate medications and treatments. Perform in-office procedures such as incision and drainage, arthrocentesis, nail removal, skin biopsy, and cryotherapy.
• Keep accurate, concise, and thorough documentation of all medical history, exam findings, assessment, treatment/interventions, and education.
• Arrive to work punctually at the start time. Punctual arrival of licensed providers is essential for the processing and preparation of patients.
• Complete documentation and lock progress notes in a timely manner. The clinic requirement is to lock all progress notes within 7 calendar days.
• Review and electronically sign off on all laboratory results, diagnostic results, and outside consult notes in a timely manner, ensuring patient is contacted for follow up if clinically appropriate.
• Initiate and follow through on specialist referrals and e-consults (electronic consults), communicating with specialist providers as necessary, in the provision of whole- person care.
• Serve as the primary care physician for a panel of patients, working with a care team and other staff at the clinic to serve as a patient- centered medical home for our patients.
• Clinically supervise Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) employed by the clinic.
o This includes thoroughly reviewing a minimum of 50 charts of all new providers under their clinical supervision, per guidelines for supervision of new providers to confirm clinical competence, and reporting findings to the Chief Medical Officer.
o This includes ongoing clinical supervision of designated APPs and as-needed clinical supervision of other APPs.
• Conjointly supervise medical assistants to improve care team efficiency and efficacy, along with Medical Assistant Supervisor.
• Participate in clinic meetings including morning “team huddles”, Provider Meetings, and All-Staff Meetings.
• Actively participate in spiritual care for patients and staff which may include prayer and referral to community resources.
• Provide compassionate, competent care for patients who, depending on the clinic site, may experience homelessness, may suffer from mental illness or substance use disorder, and often lack resources to care well for themselves.
• If seeing adult patients, may be asked to complete waiver training to provide Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) in order to care for patients with substance use disorder.
• Actively participate in Continuous Quality Improvement activities at the clinic, including teaching other providers on selected topics, implementing team-based care, participating in peer reviews, evaluating clinical performance measures, and implementing improvements using a Plan-Do-Study-Act method of stepwise changes.
• Meet productivity standards for outpatient primary care at the clinic, including an expectation of 18 patients seen per usual 8-hour day for usual face-to-face visits. Standards may vary for different types of visits, i.e. TeleMedicine visits.
• Periodically serve “on call” for the clinic, answering urgent phone calls from patients or other agencies in the off-hours for one week approximately every 10-15 weeks.
• Network with other health care agencies and county facilities as needed or requested.
• Assist in provision of health screenings (including TB, diabetes, hypertension) at outreach events.
• Maintain active enrollment in Medicare, Medicaid, Managed Care, and other payor programs as needed for clinical operations, completing credentialing paperwork in a timely manner to remain actively enrolled in these programs.
• Other duties may be assigned.
Job Qualifications Education, Skills, and Experience
The ideal candidate is a missional physician with a heart for loving and caring for our neighbors who experience homelessness. We desire a physician who values team-based care, with nurses, mental health professionals, care coordinators, partner agencies, and with other providers. Should be willing and able to work in and amidst the challenges and beauty of our urban community, in which there are many unhoused people, as well as daily opportunities to see hope and healing amidst marginalized communities. We desire a physician who is eager to be trained in and provide Medication Assisted Treatment for Substance Use Disorder, as well as HIV and Hepatitis C treatment and care. There is a mix of urgent care and chronic care. There are opportunities for training and practice of street medicine as well as primary care psychiatry, and training of students and residents. Should be able to speak Medical Spanish and ideally, conversational Spanish also.
QUALIFICATIONS:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to accomplish each essential duty satisfactorily. The following requirements are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Bilingual Spanish preferred.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
Licensed to practice medicine in California. BC/BE Internal Medicine, or Family Medicine. A copy of California License and DEA license are required. Provider BLS certification (includes CPR certification) is also required.
