Primary Care Physician

The Primary Care Physician functions as the physician leader within a multidisciplinary PACT team or as a float or gap provider assigned to provide comprehensive, collaborative acute and continuity care to an assigned panel of Veterans. This role ensures appropriate evaluation, access, and ongoing continuous care while collaborating with PACT staff to optimize patient care outcomes. Qualified candidates may be eligible for a relocation or recruitment incentive and the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP).

Practice Info

• Multidisciplinary PACT team setting
• Assigned panel of Veterans

Responsibilities

• Ongoing, continuous care of one or more assigned panel(s) of Veterans
• Utilizing all available tools, such as registries, to enable effective and efficient identification and intervention of individual patients and cohorts
• Ensuring appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patients assigned to the patient panel
• Functioning at the full extent of the team member's relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scopes of practice, elements of practice, certification, functional statement, or other VHA or local facility approved documentation of competency
• Participating in team performance improvement and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and care delivery to patients
• Implementing primary care operations management processes, as appropriate
• Managing communications and facilitating safe transitions of patients between the PACT's site of care and other health care settings
• Providing health education and health coaching on wellness, disease prevention, chronic care management, and self-management skills to patients and personal support persons

Compensation

• Salary from $220,000 to $245,000
• Relocation or recruitment incentive may be available for a highly qualified candidate

Benefits

• Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)