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. The role involves managing communications, utilizing clinical tools, and collaborating with PACT staff to develop personal health plans that optimize patient care outcomes. Candidates will enjoy competitive compensation and potential recruitment incentives, alongside opportunities for professional growth within a structured healthcare environment.

Practice Info

• Multidisciplinary PACT team
• 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, using informal and formal communication methods, as appropriate.
• Providing health education and health coaching on wellness, disease prevention, chronic care management, and self-management skills to patients and personal support persons, commensurate with the documented expertise or professional training of the PACT member.

Compensation

• Salary $220,000 - $245,000
• A relocation or recruitment incentive may be available for a highly qualified candidate.

Benefits

• The Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP)

Qualifications

• H-1B and J-1 visa sponsorship available