Internal Medicine Physician
Company: AbsoluteCare
Location: Baltimore
Posted on: October 24, 2024
Job Description:
AbsoluteCare is seeking a dynamic, mission-driven clinical
leader to put the principles of team-based collaborative care and
population health into action for our medically complex & socially
vulnerable members. AbsoluteCare is designed to care for society s
most complex patients under innovative value-based care
arrangements. Our patients have typically been underserved by the
traditional health care system, resulting in frequently bouncing
between emergency rooms, hospitals, and specialists. Our health
care teams break the status quo by transforming our members
experience to improve quality of life and overall health outcomes
while reducing high costs of unnecessary utilization. This
exceptional care is provided by an integrated team of primary care
providers, complex care managers, nurses, medical assistants,
behavioral health clinicians, and community health workers. We
offer complex, coordinated medical care with our onsite infusion
center, full pharmacy, and lab & imaging suites. We also address
the social determinants of health, addressing housing instability,
food insecurity, and social isolation. The Associate Medical
Director (AMD) provides direct clinical care to a panel of members.
They directly supervise other providers, guiding clinicians on best
practices on delivering value-based care. Additionally, they work
closely with our Medical Director to provide clinical leadership to
our providers, Nurses, Behavioral Health specialists, and Medical
Assistants. There are 4 key areas for responsibility for the
Associate Medical Director:
- Provide excellent primary care to a panel of members, leading
your pod interdisciplinary care team
- Supervise and coach fellow providers in how to provide
excellent primary care / urgent care / or community care to their
members, and effectively lead their interdisciplinary care teams.
Mentor care teams during population health huddle to achieve their
quality and utilization goals.
- Alongside the Medical Director, the AMD is the clinical leader
in the center. They address questions from and provide clinical
guidance to nurses, MAs, and fellow providers about clinical cases
as they arise.
- The AMD is core part of the center and market s leadership team
. They are accountable for driving the market toward successfully
achieving its quality, utilization and engagement goals. Alongside
the medical director, they partake in leadership meetings, and will
also be AbsoluteCare s ambassador to community based organizations,
hospital systems, and payer partners. Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide Primary Care services to panel of members.
- Work in a team environment (with social work, care management,
behavioral health, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition, etc.), process
feedback, and facilitate discussion and implementing plans of care
from other members of the team.
- Supervise, coach and mentor physicians and Advance Practice
Providers.
- Treatment of acute exacerbations of chronic conditions
onsite.
- Accept same day/next day or urgent appointments for patients
from home or discharged from the hospital/ER/skilled nursing
facility in need of intensified physician or case management/social
work services to ensure acute episode has resolved and the patient
is not admitted/readmitted.
- Possess a comfort level and the knowledge to differentiate when
exacerbation can be treated within AbsoluteCare and when a higher
level of care is needed.
- Work with Medical Director to forge partnerships with academic
programs and community-based organizations to enhance provision of
services to members.
- Vigilant in keeping track of patients and their disease
processes to prevent ER visits, admissions to the hospital, and
readmissions.
- Practice evidenced based medicine and in accordance with the
PCMH model of care.
- Able to keep track of and successfully obtain specified quality
metric goals.
- Perform other duties as required consistent with chronic care
and disease management services provided to patients.
- Implement plans of care in collaboration with the patient,
their family and other team members.
- Develop strong transitional care plans and able to keep track
of paneled patients along the whole continuum of care including
hospital discharges, ER, skilled nursing facilities and home
care.
- Track and successfully obtain specified quality metric
goals.
- Use technology and the electronic health record to the highest
capability to increase quality initiatives and efficiency within
the practice.
- Participate in multi-disciplinary meetings and recommends
treatment initiatives designed to keep patients healthy or resolve
ongoing clinical issues.
- Provide on-call coverage for the office in rotation with other
providers.
- Develop clinical protocols and pathways to upskill all clinical
support staff to practice top of license
- Approximately 70-80% time dedicated to direct clinical
care.
- Other duties as assigned.
Keywords: AbsoluteCare, Dundalk , Internal Medicine Physician, Healthcare , Baltimore, Maryland
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