Cardiac & Thoracic Surgery -Grand Rapids, MI – PA/NP

MISSION, VISION, VALUES and CUSTOMER PROMISE

Mission: We are relentlessly advancing health to serve West Michigan.
Vision: Our innovations change care. Our care changes lives.
Values: Our values reflect our heritage and the legacy of all we’ve accomplished in the past and will build in the future. Caring, innovation, inclusion, integrity, teamwork
Customer Promise: I will bring compassion and excellence to everything that I do.

About the role

The University of Michigan Health-West is seeking a full-time Cardiothoracic and Thoracic Surgery Advanced Practice Provider. High caliber, quality focused, innovative providers should apply to join our Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery teams in effort to continue to expand and provide care to local communities throughout West Michigan. Michigan Medicine and University of Michigan Health systems create an opportunity for program collaboration, mentorship, and continued professional growth if desired.

Responsibilities

• Candidate will need to coordinate and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure a positive experience for all patients, families, and staff.
• Provider exercises autonomy in medical decision making and provides a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic services to adult patients.
• Assists patients in understanding their diagnosis, treatment options, and the resources available, including educating eligible patients about appropriate clinical research studies and technologies.
• Assesses the patient’s ability to navigate the increasingly complex healthcare continuum, assists in identifying potential barriers to timely and appropriate health care, and develops plan of care to overcome such barriers.
• The individual collects and assists in the interpretation of reports from diagnostic and laboratory tests, radiographic procedures, and clinical studies.
• The position typically analyzes, compares, and evaluates various courses of action and has the authority to make independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, within the scope of their responsibilities.
• Follows patients throughout the care continuum, which may include pre-op testing, inpatient admissions as well as collaborate with inpatient care management resources, and discharge management.

Requirements

• Health system employed medical group model, offering a highly market competitive compensation plan
• Expansive Cardiovascular and Cancer Networks serving much of the West Michigan region and Lake Michigan shoreline
• Extensive Primary Care referral network
• Full benefit package
• Malpractice coverage
• Program marketing
• CME/Paid Time Off
• Potential sign on bonus

Qualifications

• Partnering team of specialists
• Experience working with culturally diverse patients
• Fluency in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Nepali and Bosnian

Skills

• Autonomy in medical decision making
• Interpretation of diagnostic and laboratory test results
• Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams
• Education and support of patients
• Pre-op and post-op care coordination

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Flexible work schedule
• Professional development opportunities
• Work-life integration focus

Pay

Highest market competitive compensation plan

Schedule

Full time