Physician, Internal Medicine or Family Medicine, Senior Care Chief

Sutter Senior Clinics is seeking a Senior Clinic Chief to deliver comprehensive, high-quality, and patient-centered primary care for older adults. This role involves managing sub-acute and chronic medical conditions, promoting wellness, and advocating for seniors, especially those with complex needs or from underserved communities. The Chief will also partner with local administrative leaders to effectively deploy the day-to-day clinical operational model and ensure optimal health outcomes and quality of life for patients.

Practice Info

• Sutter Senior Clinics are part of the primary care continuum of care specifically for vulnerable, value-based Medicare patients.
• These clinics manage sub-acute and chronic medical conditions, promote wellness and preventive health, and advocate for seniors.
• The role is a core member of an interdisciplinary team, ensuring shared communication venues such as huddles and interdisciplinary team rounds.
• The Senior Care Chief is responsible for ensuring other senior clinic clinicians gain and maintain competency in comprehensive assessment and longitudinal management practices.
• Gould Medical Group is a growing, 550+ clinician multi-specialty group located about two hours east of San Francisco, California.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the fidelity of the holistic clinical care model is maintained and enhanced in conjunction with the CMO, Senior Clinics.
• Foster a patient-centric and outcomes-driven culture where the interprofessional model of care is valued by all team members through leadership in interdisciplinary team rounds, huddles, and team meetings.
• Be accountable for the financial and clinical outcomes of the clinic in partnership with the local administrative leader.
• Evaluate and coach clinicians to build successful relationships with staff, patients, and caregivers to create a culture of team-based care.
• Be a role model for care delivery in a population health, highly patient-centric, and team-based care model.
• Collaborate with the Sutter Senior Clinic CMO regarding staff oversight, staff and physician/APC education, Quality and VBC metrics.
• Build relationships with GMG Ambulatory Chiefs and Chairs as well as individual physicians to empanel patients to the Sutter Senior Clinic.
• Engage with Hospital leadership, GMG Hospitalists, SNF Medical Directors to address utilization metrics (ED visits, inpatient days, SNF days etc).

Compensation

• Starting base salary: $346,500
• $50,000 incentive potential (via SHN) based on the clinic’s performance on clinical, utilization and operational measures in alignment with system goals
• Prorated APC supervision of $12,000 per 1.0 FTE APC supervised

Benefits

• Annual 12.0% 401(k) gift
• Annual CME / business expense allowance
• Full health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Group paid malpractice and tail coverage
• Relocation assistance

Shift & Schedule

• M-F traditional clinic hours
• Shared call schedule with other Sutter Senior Clinic physicians and APCs. Expect no more than one week in three weeks

Requirements

• MD or DO degree from an accredited institution; board certified in Family Medicine or Internal Medicine.
• Geriatrics fellowship training is highly preferred.
• Openness to additional Geriatrics training.
• Valid and unrestricted state medical license.
• Minimum 2-5 years of experience required in a primary care/geriatric setting or geriatric fellowship completion.
• Prior experience in leadership in a primary care setting preferred.
• Familiarity and proficiency with electronic health record systems; comfort with utilizing Microsoft Office product.
• Familiarity with working in panel-oriented and team-based interdisciplinary clinical settings.
• Experience with value-based care models preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and lead peers through change.